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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...

Media Create sales see Vita beat 3DS in Japan

Despite the arrival of a new Super Robot Wars game, racing into to the top positions on PS3 and Vita, its been another slowish week for Vita hardware. Even so, the Vita is now ahead of the 3DS in Japan, which Famitsu's sales reported a few weeks back. Not much of a trend, and only by 1,800 or so, but its a start.

However one big 3DS release can send hardware sales soaring, something the Vita can't manage. Here's last week's numbers for comparison. Between 125,000 and 180,000 seems to be the upper limit for Vita games, excluding digital sales. With only Toukiden, Hatsune Miku 1 and FFX HD notably above that, from memory.


TTG makes a good impression at No. 6 for an all-new game, I'd be quite keen to see the latest Arc System mystery game come west. The Vita's task now is to keep selling over the next dead month or so until the summer release arrive, then the spikes need to be a lot bigger than they were in 2012/13.

01./00. [PS3] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Jigoku-Hen (Bandai Namco)  - 142.433 / NEW
02./00. [PSV] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Jigoku-Hen (Bandai Namco)  - 128.236 / NEW
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06./00. [PSV] Mato Kurenai Yuugekitai: Tokyo Twilight Ghosthunters (Arc System Works) - 14.468 / NEW
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14./06. [PSV] Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd (Sega) - 6.333 / 121.071 (-61%)
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17./10. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 2014 (Konami)  - 5.609 / 96.485 (-44%)
18./00. [PSV] Samurai Warriors 4 # (Koei Tecmo)  - 5.369 / 74.165
19./08. [PSV] J-Stars Victory Vs # (Bandai Namco)  - 5.353 / 139.875 (-55%)
37./27. [PSV] Pro Baseball Spirits 2014 (Konami) {2014.03.20} (¥6.983)
39./31. [PSV] Soul Sacrifice Δ (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2014.03.06} (¥4.980)
40./20. [PSV] Natural Doctrine (Kadokawa Games) {2014.04.03} (¥6.458)

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