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Portable post-Black Friday deals take off from Xbox Ally, Nintendo, PlayStation and Evercade

 While there's no sign of a discount on the PlayStation Portal or Xbox Ally, portable gamers can still get in on the Black Friday action. From handheld PC gaming devices to Nintendo, there's plenty on offer.  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 gettting 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 Europe and US markets.  Not all deals have kicked in yet, but the official list is:  Up to 30% off all cartridges released before September 2025 20% off all hardware released before September 2025 US and Canada to receive 20% off all lines released...
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Details Emerge on the PSV's Development, Interesting Reading...

Sony's execs have been explaining the development process (Japanese text) that led to the creation of the PSVita and, while the translated text was rather scary, some useful details have come out:


  • Development started in Spring 2009
  • Had a fixed price point of 25,000Yen (PSPs currently sell for around 15,000)
  • Rear touch panel was initially rejected for cost
  • Needed mainstream development tools and be easier to develop for
  • More focus on PSP and PS3 titles to fit on Vita
  • May be more tweaks to the console styling, button placement


So, it looks like Sony has learned from the problems with the PSP and PSPGo, all it needs to do now is get the beast on the shelves, quickly please! But, if final design approval hasn't happened and production hasn't started yet, its not coming anytime earlier than Nov/Dec at a push.

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