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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...

Vita chart update, low-to-no sales?

Following on from this week's Japanese chart and UK retail sales, I had a look at Amazon's Hot New 100 (UK) chart, with exactly one Vita game in there. Clinging on at No. 94 Danganronpa 2 flies the flag for handheld gaming. To be fair there's only three 3DS games, so handheld gaming overall is looking pretty dicey. And with only a handful of upcoming Vita games listed on their store, casual buyers would wonder why on earth they'd want a Vita.

On Sony's own PSN (UK) chart, if a pretty obscure game like Real Boxing (admittedly on sale) can make it into the top five, then things are looking pretty weak. Although the rest of the chart looks high quality, but the number of reentries only highlights the lack of new titles.

UK PSN June chart (Vita)

Borderlands 2 (5)
Need for Speed Most Wanted (RE)
The Walking Dead: Season Two (10)
Real Boxing (RE)
Fez (RE)
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (RE)
Terraria (13)
Persona 4 Golden (RE)
LittleBigPlanet PlayStation Vita (RE)
The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season (RE)

US PSN June chart (Vita)

1 Rainbow Moon
2 Real Boxing
3 Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational
4 Killzone: Mercenary
5 FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster
6 LUFTRAUSERS
7 Borderlands 2
8 Tearaway
9 Monster Monpiece
10 Soul Sacrifice

If Sony does want to continue promoting the Vita, it needs some more officially announced titles populating Amazon and other stores, and get some exciting pre-orders on the Vita PSN. But, with next to no marketing, weak point-of-sale efforts, it seems doubtful if anyone would notice.

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