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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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Shields up, here comes Nokia

For all Sony's Vita woes, there must still be some value in portable because hardware companies are still producing games-focused devices. Next up is the Nvidia Shield, a Tegra-4 powered Android device with HD-out plus a 5-inch, multitouch 720p pop-up screen. The Tegra 4 offers four CPU cores and 72 graphics cores to play at 3200x2000 res, so games can be played at higher HD resolution on your TV.

The hardware will be upgraded annually, so new Shields will always be able to play the latest games, unlike Vita which already sees developers making compromises to get dedicated games to play smoothly.


As well as a decent list of Shield-optimized Android games (so I guess it won't play the full array of mobile games via the controller), the Shield can play your PC titles if you have a suitable NV graphics card and will retail at $349 around $100 more than the basic Vita (according to Amazon) and will be out in June. Optimized games include Dead Trigger, Max Payne, GTA III, ShadowRun, Sonic and more.

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