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Portable post-Black Friday deals take off from 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: 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 before Sep 2025 Big names, including Evercade Alpha Street Fighter and Mega Man bartop arcade, Tomb Raider, all Super Pocke...

Monster Hunter slays Japanese chart

No prizes for guessing who's number one, which is likely to be there for some time. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate sold around 1.6 million copies in just two days, Capcom announced ahead of the chart update later today. Add in downloads and that's probably over two million.


PS Vita games are sticking around the Media Create chart, with Danganronpa and Legend of Heroes 2 bothering the 6 figure mark:

8 Danganronpa Another Episode Spike Chunsoft this week: 7,184 total: 93,113
10 The Legend of Heroes II  Falcom 5,021 102,905 87
12  FIFA 15 Electronic Arts 14/10/09 4,253 New entry
18 Ar Nosurge Plus: Ode to an Unborn Star (Gust) - 3.157 / 12.398 


Nintendo announced the new model 3DS topped 230,000 units on the week. Lets see the new pink Vita or Value Packs match that! As if that wasn't "kerching enough", another version of Tokai Watch is due in December!

My money is still on a PlayStation 4 Portable to lure Japan into PS4 ownership that they can play on the move. Unsurprisingly, Vita hardware sales dived to below 10,000, losing almost 5,000 sales. Looking forward, here's some recent PS Vita scores from Famitsu, but there's nothing that should help sales match those big blue sales spikes at the end of last year in the chart:

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2014 (PS3/Vita) – 9/9/8/9
Super Hero Generation (PS3/Vita) – 8/8/8/7
Puri Pia: Prince Pia Carrot (PSP) – 8/7/7/6
Divekick: Addition Edition (PS3/PSV) – 9/8/8/7
Chaos Rings III: Prequel Trilogy (PSV) – 8/8/9/8

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