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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...

Sony fobs off new Vita gamers with FIFA 15 bundle

Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel, the next Vita bundle up is one with FIFA 15 for €199 across Europe, available in a few weeks. That means Sony is trying to get gamers to buy into the Vita with a three year old game plus a team patch, incredible!

Still, for the unaware kids out there, it could sell a few, and there's not much wrong with the actual gameplay, if you ignore all the innovations that EA has made in the full-fat version with ultimate teams, dynamic tactics and so on! Given these games spend their lives in the top five of the chart, they must make some money for EA to invest in a decent update!

Note the desperate plea that the Vita plays PS4 games too! And note its a download code, Sony is just changing the outer packaging and slipping in a new voucher, hardly any effort at all. Not sure how much of the 4GB card FIFA 15 will eat up, FIFA 14 was 3GB and since all they've added is some new longer dodgy foreign player names and strip updates, it shouldn't be much bigger but gamers won't be able to download much more without investing in another memory card, all part of the plan, I'm sure. 

Note that FIFA 14 is still £45.99 on the PSN store (UPDATE, an EA PSN sale has just lopped that down to a just-about-reasonable £15), incredible that EA can get away with such mercenary tactics. Especially when the next versions in just £25 from stores. Compare that shoddy effort to Nintendo's next bundle... 


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