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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...

PlayStation Vue not coming to Vita owners, yet

Do Sony employees have to urinate on a Vita before they're allowed into the building in the morning? Is that the way it goes now? Sony just announced a new cloud TV service coming to the States called PlayStation Vue for the U.S. and the Vita doesn't even get a mention on the Sony press release.

It is in beta, and coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 users (with iPad coming soon and other Sony and non-Sony devices later). I mean, most media apps are tiny, it is not a massive effort to support your own platform first? Especially the Vita, which is great for watching TV in bed, while most people already have a cable box with catch-up, a TV dongle or micro console bolted onto their TV, making the PlayStation consoles also-rans in the media game.


Not only is Sony so late to the content game, aside from the joke of a Movies Unlimited service, but ignoring your own platform where it would most make sense is pretty bat-shit crazy. Then there's yet another damn Sony service to pay for, although this is non-contract,, isn't PSN and PS+, then PlayStation Now enough? 

I'm sure there's a few loyal fans who must have all-things Sony, but really - just provide the Netflix app in Europe or bolt this into the PSN subscription and we'll be fine, but another bill - Sony is starting to act worse than your cable company. Also, despite the press release's long list of features, it does nothing new, whatsoever - unless America can't watch live TV through an app somehow.

The beta is rolling out around some US cities. It will launch properly in 2015, I guess Sony believes the Vita will be all but dead then, so perhaps that's why they aren't bothering? Will Vue come to Europe? Given the fragmented market, at least not for a long time. 

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