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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...

Sony Europe President Says Only Top Games Will Go In-Store

We've already heard from Sony developer president Shuhei Yoshida talk about the NGP's birth and where its going, but also chatting today was Sony Europe head Andrew House who told MCV, that only high-quality, big-name games will appear as boxed product for NGP.

Everything else will go the digital PSN store route to cut down on costs. As with Yoshida-san's comments, he recognises the mistakes made with the PSP, particularly the late addition of the PSN store, and reckons that NGP solves all those issues.

He adds that developers can take risks with a game while not having to spend too much on distribution, something that ties up with Yoshida-san's desire for innovative titles from indie devs.

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