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Portable post-Black Friday deals take off from Xbox Ally, Nintendo, PlayStation and Evercade

 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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News from Sony, PS5 logo and PS4 numbers

Ooh, Sony has a press release, quite a rare occurrence outside of release or earnings season. It says:

"Sony announced that PlayStation Network’s December 2019 monthly active users have reached 103 million. Additionally, the PlayStation 4 console has sold through more than 106 million globally, and cumulative sales of PS4 software titles from retailers and PlayStation Store have reached 1.15 billion as of December 31, 2019."

In a related note, PS VR sales are now around 5 million, basically a third of the Vita, and yet Sony continues to support that. Also, Sony I've seen at least 20 people pick up second-hand Vita handhelds over Christmas on Twitter alone, so there could be a good few hundred users you could to the list.

In other Sony news, here's the official PS5 logo from CES, looking remarkably like the previous logos as Sony goes for strong-and-stable continuity.

Here's hoping the PS5 gets a startup sound effect, something that was sorely missing from the Vita and PS4. Remember Sony peeps, consoles are about fun for the user, not just sticking to some branding wonk's idea of design purity.

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