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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...

PSP Hardware Sales Rule in Japan

Here's the numbers in the latest battle of the handhelds, with the PSP selling twice as many as the 3DS, which really needs some AAA games for it, last week's in brackets.

PSP - 49,162 (23,846)
3DS - 23,038 (28,252)
PS3 - 19,033 (22,265)
Wii - 7,866 (8,122)
DSi LL - 7,064 (7,724)
DSi - 6,214 (6,809)
Xbox 360 - 1,891 (1,898)
PS2 - 1,163 (1,261)
DS Lite - 283 (423)
PSP go - 265 (207)


On the software front the PSP stacks up behind a couple of DS games at the top of the charts which is headed by a Pokemon Typing game of all things. 


1. Battle & Get! Pokemon Typing DS 59,363 NEW!
2. Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 Professional 45,397 (337,166)
3. 2nd Super Robot Wars Z Hakai Volume 44,973 (351,992) PSP
4. Pro Baseball Spirits 2011 27,931 (99,195) PSP
5. Pro Baseball Spirits 2011 24,365 (110,851)
6. Detective Conan: Aoki Houseki no Ronbukyoku 19,786 NEW!
7. Gachitora! Abarenbou Kyoushi in High School 13,560 NEW! PSP
8. SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs 4 12,613 NEW!
9. Pilot Wings Resort 10,675 (37,228)
10. Otomedius X 10,502 NEW!

Currently playing on my Vita/PS3/PS4/PS5


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