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Possible new PlayStation Portal model pays homage to the Vita's OLED

While much of the focus on PlayStation's next steps is the PS6 and PS6 Portable , the two-year old PlayStation Portal could be getting a revamp according to those pesky internet rumours.  Update : Hints at pricing are around £/$250-299 for the new model, but everything remains deeply in rumours territory. Presumably the goal is to hit the 10% (currently 7%-ish) adoption rate among PS5 owners, something that would make it a bone fide hit gadget.   The recent February  PlayStation State of Play  saw no announcement. But, PlayStation needs to make Portal more a core member of the PS5 family, rather than the distant cousin that most of its appearances suggest.  As the improvement in connectivity and streaming tech, proven by many gamers enjoying their PS5 or PlayStation Plus streamed content from around the world, an updated Portal Pro could be on the cards.  Possibly featuring a 120Hz display and an OLED screen in honour of the mighty Vita, that'd be coo...

PS Vita nets Activision $23 million over the year

I can only think of one Activision game, the panto villain of Vita gaming, Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified. While it has been roundly lambasted, the game still appears to have made the company a truckload of money. Buried in Activision quarterly financial report is the line:

ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES FINANCIAL INFORMATION
For the Three Months Ended December 31, 2012 and 2011
(Amounts in millions)
Sony PS Vita 18 (this quarter)  3 (last year's quarter) 500 (%age increase)

Another line shows the company making $23 million out of the Vita overall in FY2012, that's not a bad return, despite the botched developer efforts against the background of an impossible deadline. Imagine if Activision had assigned a decent developer first time around?

That's the sort of money not to be sneezed at, and you can likely expect another release this year, with a new Call of Duty game confirmed for the big consoles. Which, with some decent resources for it might bring a decent game to go along with all the dollars. As a ballpark guess, those $18 million in sales equates to around 360,000 sales, which with AC3 Liberations 600,000 proves the Vita can sell a few games.

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