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...
On the back of the decent launch of SaGa Scarlet Grace plus seasonal sales, the Vita shifted over 36,000 units in Japan over the week. A good final week could see it pass through 800,000 on the year - according to Media Create sales data. That would be 20% down on last year's million, but still makes the Vita far from a dead format in its homeland.
A rough currency check is about $120m in revenue, for what must be a pretty low-cost production line. That's a good business for most companies, assuming Sony still produces the ARM-based Cortex-A9 and SGX543MP4+ GPU chip, and can keep partners turning out the other now-pretty-old components for the system.
On the software front, Square's SS Grace sold 65,000 on launch, landing at No.4, even with its supposedly high difficulty factor. Minecraft grabbed a seasonal boost and shifted 20,000 on the week to stay in the top 10. That brings it ever-closer to a million boxed copy sales.
Akiba's Beat on PS4 failed to make the top 20, which is bad news. Hopefully any issues will be fixed come next year's Vita launch (I'd hope so, as its one of my "Five games to love in 2017"), if Acquire can be bothered. I guess they have to focus on Vita now to recoup development costs, but be prepared to chalk up another cancelled game, just in case.
Last week's chart data saw a modest boost with the new colour models, place your bets on what next week's number will be. 30K, 40K, 50K or 60K+?
A rough currency check is about $120m in revenue, for what must be a pretty low-cost production line. That's a good business for most companies, assuming Sony still produces the ARM-based Cortex-A9 and SGX543MP4+ GPU chip, and can keep partners turning out the other now-pretty-old components for the system.
On the software front, Square's SS Grace sold 65,000 on launch, landing at No.4, even with its supposedly high difficulty factor. Minecraft grabbed a seasonal boost and shifted 20,000 on the week to stay in the top 10. That brings it ever-closer to a million boxed copy sales.
Akiba's Beat on PS4 failed to make the top 20, which is bad news. Hopefully any issues will be fixed come next year's Vita launch (I'd hope so, as its one of my "Five games to love in 2017"), if Acquire can be bothered. I guess they have to focus on Vita now to recoup development costs, but be prepared to chalk up another cancelled game, just in case.
Last week's chart data saw a modest boost with the new colour models, place your bets on what next week's number will be. 30K, 40K, 50K or 60K+?
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