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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 sells 1.4 million Vitas in the Christmas quarter

Sony's latest official numbers are in, and it can't hide the Vita's sales behind the PSP any more. One point four million Vita and Vita TV devices were sold in the Christmas quarter, plus a few thousand PSPs, if that. That's down from 2 million a year ago.

Admittedly, it took a $92 million write-down on Vita and Vita TV (mostly the TV I'm guessing), but both Nintendo and Microsoft have done the same recently for unsold hardware. Still, for a dead console and micro console, that's not too shabby.

Some 270,000 of those sales came from Japan, according to Media Create's numbers, That's almost half of 2013's seasonal quarter, which was Sony's best since launch thanks to the arrival  of the PlayStation TV and Final Fantasy X HD in Japan, that explains almost half of the drop in sales.

Taking out Japan, that leaves 1.13 million sold around the rest of the world, I wonder how its Asian sales are doing?

If Sony can get a lift in the last (usually quiet) quarter above 500,000, and there's lots of hot games coming out in Japan, then that would be a small positive step. Sony's software contribution from the Vita must be pretty poor since it has pretty much given up on the console, but with Bandai Namco stepping up, there are still some big name games to come.

Overall, Sony posted a decent profit, but has yet to report its movie studio figures after that was hacked at the end of last year.
The gaming divisions sales were up 16.8%, led by 6.4 million PS4 sales, and helped by 1.1 million PS3 sales. While, Vita sales were down over 500,000 on last year's quarter, Sony doesn't see any further decline, maintaining its overall forecast of 3.5 million for the year.



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