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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...

No, a network error has not occurred, you stupid Vita

The earlier firmware update has provided a bit of a boost to my Vita's download speed, so good for that, and for Sony for keeping plugging away. But then I got playing some games, and realised something horrible is happening that Sony really should fix across all titles.

Basically, whenever your Vita goes to sleep or you turn it off for a while, most recent games have a panic attack about network access. No there isn't a network error, I merely turned off this so called smart computer, or it turned itself off, in which case it should know about the change in state.



So, Sony, for your next piddly .01 of a firmware update, how about you make this message go away. It never affects us, except in multiplayer, when you'd get kicked back to the lobby anyway. The network soon picks back up again, and all is well, making this a pointless, redundant warning that just gets in the way. I never see smartphones do this, so why should the Vita?

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