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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...

Tokyo Xanadu tops the charts in Japan

The Vita has a rocking week in Japan with Falcom's original title, Tokyo Xanadu, beating the combined sales of the latest Winning 11 to grab the No. 1 spot on the Media Create chart. Selling almost 90,000 copies (the Dengeki chart has it at over 100K) - certainly more than that when digital is taken into account, that's impressive given today's Vita climate.



Despite that and several more new entries, the bad news is Vita sales fall almost 4,000 to 15K, suggesting that new games aren't getting potential Vita owners excited anymore. Perhaps if word of mouth does well, sales could get a small boost next week.



Better news for Sony sees PlayStation 4 crush everything with 45,000 sales as the price cut kicks in. What chance a cheeky reciprocal Vita price cut later in the year to help drive sales into the holidays?

01./00. [PSV] Tokyo Xanadu # (Nihon Falcom)  - 88.879 / NEW 
02./00. [PS3] Winning Eleven 2016 (Konami)  - 48.473 / NEW
03./00. [PS4] Winning Eleven 2016 (Konami)  - 39.017 / NEW
04./00. [PS4] Yoru no Nai Kuni # (Koei Tecmo)  - 35.907 / NEW
05./00. [PSV] Yoru no Nai Kuni # (Koei Tecmo)  - 32.904 / NEW
...
13./10. [PS4] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain # (Konami)  - 13.938 / 386.171 (-8%)
14./00. [PS3] Yoru no Nai Kuni # (Koei Tecmo)  - 10.416 / NEW
15./00. [PSV] Tokyo Ghoul: Jail (Bandai Namco Games)  - 10.390 / NEW
16./00. [PS3] Arslan: The Warriors of Legend # (Koei Tecmo)  - 10.337 / NEW
17./00. [PS4] Arslan: The Warriors of Legend # (Koei Tecmo) - 10.034 / NEW
19./13. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (Sony)  - 8.164 / 351.598 (-24%)


 Elsewhere in the chart, the flurry of new entries almost knocks Minecraft out, while Tokyo Ghoul perhaps should have picked a different name or week to come out on. 

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