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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...

IA/VT Colorful dances up the Japanese chart

Marvelous' IA/VT Colorful music game shifts 38,000 units on its Japanese debut in the Media Create chart, to make it into the top three.


Looking a little further down the chart, dodgy-sounding love adventure Date-A-Live Twin Edition: Rio Reincarnation from Compile Heart ships 13K to get in at No. 6.



Alas, Bandai's next big hope, Ray Gigant, the Experience-developed RPG managed to sell a woeful 8,600. That's pretty shocking, especially considering the effort that went into the visual upgrade over traditional RPGs, perhaps that was the problem. Also, haven't seen any review scores yet, so it might pick up.

UPDATE: Famitsu reckons it sold closer to 10K, but still only sold 40%-60% of shipped copies, which is still pretty dismal.

On the plus side, that could hurry up a western release as Bandai tries to make its money back. None of that action, plus a bunch of other games hitting the charts helped the Vita shift units, with sales diving again. It is staying consistently behind the PS4 now, with no new PS4 games in the chart.

Looks like Sony needs a new upgrade or some new franchises to help sell the numbers that 3DS games can manage at the top of the chart.

01./00. [3DS] Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer # (Nintendo) - 522.556 / NEW
02./01. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch Busters: Red Cat Team / White Dog Squad (Level 5) - 107.945 / 1.117.850 (+13%)
03./00. [PSV] IA/VT: Colorful # (Marvelous) - 38.881 / NEW
06./00. [PSV] Date-A-Live Twin Edition: Rio Reincarnation # (Compile Heart) - 13.107 / NEW
09./00. [PSV] Ray Gigant (Bandai Namco Games)  - 8.673 / NEW
10./11. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (Sony)  - 8.553 / 272.040 (-16%)
11./14. [PSV] Taiko no Tatsujin: V Version (Bandai Namco Games)  - 7.464 / 74.423 (-10%)
19./05. [PSV] Makai Shin Trillion # (Compile Heart)  - 5.221 / 23.726 (-72%)
20./00. [PSV] KLAP!! Kind Love And Punish # (Idea Factory)  - 5.047 / NEW




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