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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...

Top of the PSN Pops for July

God Lord, I won't even discuss the European Vita PSN chart for July, which is so backwards, it could come be two years old. On the positive side, let's focus on the the US sales with three shiny new games all taking decent numbers, hopefully proving to Square that they were right to bring Adventures of Mana our way - any chance of I am Setsuna next?

Mana was the only new entry on the EU store, hitting No. 7, you'd have thought after all the fuss, it would have done better, but lots of summer sale games did better.

US PSN July sales

 1 Ratchet & Clank Collection
2 GOD EATER: Resurrection
3 Adventures of Mana
4 Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme VS-Force Bundle

According to my Vita, the Top Sellers in the UK are:

1 Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
2 Digimon Story
3 Persona 4 Golden
4 Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens
5 Odin Sphere Leifthrasir

Which makes for a lot better reading!

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