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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...

Just one more thing up Eastasiasoft's sleeve for the Vita?

The Eastasiasoft line up for the Vita gave us 73 games in limited-edition physically gorgeous form. From the must-owns like Xeno Crisis, Severed, Sir Eatsalot and the last-minute ScourgeBringer to the life-giving blood for quirky solo devs at the end, EAS made an an awesome effort that helped build a solid publishing brand. 

But then, the end came and everyone moved on. However, in the world of gaming, there are always strange things in the darker corners. And it seems EAS has one more thing up its sleeve, a dusty box titled EAS-PV074.  


Now, this could just a cardboard box, pre-printed in the rush before the doors closed and nothing more. 

Or there could be a few prototype carts in a jiffy bag that would fetch a fortune on the open market, even if the game in question is pretty low-tier.  

Orrrr, there might just a production run that time forgot, perhaps lost in the post from Sony's cart factory to the EAS offices. Who knows, but it'll be fun to find out, and another example of never counting the Vita or any system out, even the Spectrum gets new games today, so the Vita will never die. 


Hopefully, EAS will share more soon, and short of hacking their production system, we await their update. And, of course, they won't the only team churning out physical cartridges to the near-end, so who knows what else might be out there in some form? 

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