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 While there's no sign of a discount on the PlayStation Portal or Xbox Ally, portable gamers can still get in on the Black Friday action. From handheld PC gaming devices to Nintendo, there's plenty on offer.  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 gettting 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 Europe and US markets.  Not all deals have kicked in yet, but the official list is:  Up to 30% off all cartridges released before September 2025 20% off all hardware released before September 2025 US and Canada to receive 20% off all lines released...
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Alienware waves around a new portable Concept UFO at CES2020

Handheld gaming is dead, so Sony tell us.

And here's Alienware with an interesting if rather minimal-looking UFO concept they are unveiling at CES today (7th Jan, 10AM west coast US time). It has an impressive screen, runs Windows 10, yet looks a bit light on the buttons front, with Switch-style detachable controllers. Presumably the UFO would be good for arcade gaming on the go, or remote-playing PC games if it comes with a decent 5G/WiFi stack. Would be even cooler if it could remote play your console collection too?

Will update if anything interesting comes out of the launch, how about an official Windows PlayStation emulator for PSone, PS2, PSP and Vita games? That'd be cool. But Alienware has dabbled with phones and other gimmicks before to not much effect. And as Alienware is owned by Dell, you can just seem some corporate dick going, "hey, lets rip off console gaming!" with no real thought about doing anything interesting or different.

A little more info from Laptop mag shows just how unexcited the gaming world is about it.

UPDATE: More talk today from @Alienware about the gadget, packing an eight-inch 1900×1200 resolution screen and a 10th generation Intel processor.

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