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Portable post-Black Friday deals take off from 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: 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 before Sep 2025 Big names, including Evercade Alpha Street Fighter and Mega Man bartop arcade, Tomb Raider, all Super Pocke...
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PS Vita firmware 1.8 adds PS Classics support

Trouble is, its not out yet. This snippet from Japan was mentioned by Sony as the company rolled out some PS2 games for the PS3. The update will be out sometime in the summer and finally let us play the likes of Final Fantasy VII, Ridge Racer Type 4, Vagrant Story and others on the Vita's gorgeous screen.

Since we're currently on version 1.69, let's hope Sony skips 1.7 and brings us straight to 1.8 in the next few weeks. Personally, I still think a Gaikai-based subscription service will be a better deal than downloading the limited number of PS One games, but we'll see in time.

Until then, watch the skies for the next Vita firmware update, and await the day that annoying tag next to your PS One games "Cannot download to a PS Vita system" will finally go away. What PS One games will you be grabbing when this firmware update hits?

Here's a snippet from the translated Japanese press release:

"You can enjoy the games that were released in the past on the PC Engine and PlayStation, in version 1.80 on PS Vita.

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  1. Ryan ArcherJuly 3, 2012 at 9:55 AM

    FF 7 bought it for my PS3 before the vita came out and never really played it, having it on the vita though would be great because I travel a lot.

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  2. Mr. AlJuly 3, 2012 at 9:58 AM

    I have pretty well bought almost all of them for my PSP, lol!! Haven't been buying them lately because of not being able to play them on my Vita.

    Also because I had to deactivate my PSP because of the 2 portable limit. :(

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