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Festive portable deals take off from Xbox Ally, Nintendo, PlayStation and Evercade

This page started for black Friday but has moved on as the deals come and go. I will update across the festive sales, as new portable hardware deals appear. I won't hype them as "pocket change" or "fire sale" like some sites, because that's bollocks.  December deals :  Evercade has 30% off various hardware, depending on the store, check the blog for details .  PlayStation Portal is currently £20 off on Amazon UK  (another £10 off for refurbs)  Update: Valve has jumped in with 20% off the Steam Deck LCD 256GB model (down to £279 in the UK) Update: Xbox Ally has various deals (pretty short-lived, but likely getting cut again for the post Christmas sale).  Update: PlayStation Portal has £20 off the range, bringing the white and black models down to £179, and 30th Anniversary Edition to £189. (Look out for another 5% off at checkout!)  First up is  Evercade offering a clutch of offers on hardware and games on Amazon and across other stores in Europ...

Profits all round at Sony as Kenichiro Yoshida takes charge

With Kaz Hirai moving upstairs the Chairman of Sony, Kenichiro Yoshida is the new CEO, taking over now the company is basking in healthy profits. He doesn't exactly look like a barrel of laughs, but is hot on business strategy so he could do some moving and shaking when it comes to portable, but probably not.


For the end of 2017, Sony's operating profit of was 350.8 billion yen from 2.7 trillion yen in revenue, with a net profit of 295.9 billion yen. Predictions are for even bigger profits in 2018! Read the whole exciting PDF here. PlayStation 4 sales (under Game and Network Services) helped lead the way, but even Sony movie studios managed to make some cash!

Now the company isn't bleeding money, it needs to fill the gap between PS4 and PS5, and his thinking will be guided by the success of the Switch, but its hard to see Sony turning around on the whole Vita issue having been so dogmatic about it for four years.

That makes a hybrid PS5 more likely, but Sony could have already missed the boat on that, depending on how advanced plans are.

Currently playing on my Vita/PS3/PS4/PS5


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