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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...

The Vita CAN Play PS3 Games

Not really a surprise, but MCV reports that Sony's Vita can now play PS3 games. That is, the game is launched on the PS3, is streamed to the PSV where the player controls the action on the small screen with the rear touch panel working as the missing shoulder buttons from the PS3.

It works rather like the Wii U, or the cloud gaming services like GaiKai and can run over WiFi or an Internet connection. The tech is still under development so should be as smooth as anything when finally ready for prime time, when we can play two player games without split-screen nastiness.

And here's the video to prove it:

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