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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...

Vita sales approach five million in Japan

<pirate voice> Ahh, we're in the doldrums now! </pirate voice> Yep, Vita sales are going nowhere fast in the dead zone of late spring. The handheld sold just under 11,000 units in Japan according to Media Create chart information, which is its worst week of 2016.

On the positive side, even if it keeps that feeble number up, it will pass five million lifetime sales in Japan next week. Also, there's finally a major new release to celebrate with Dragon Quest Heroes 2 out on Friday, which should give things a healthy nudge.

Also out of Japan are the latest Famitsu review scores with this week's big release top scoring:

Dragon Quest Heroes II (PS4/PS3/PSV) – 10/10/9/10
Neverending Nightmares (PS4/PSV) – 7/8/8/7
Taisho Alice All in One (PSV visual novel) – 8/8/7/7

This week the Vita managed to sneak a couple of new Otome titles into the chart with Idea Factory's Period Cube: Torikago no Amadeus in at 16, selling 3,850 and Spike's Kenka Bancho Otome doing a bit better, shifting 8,000 units to land in the top five. Otherwise, Powerful Pro Baseball passed the 125,000 sales mark and Minecraft continues selling, and selling and selling.....

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