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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...
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The Xperia Play phone is back as Ayaneo's Pocket Play

 After the retro Pocket DMG, Ayaneo is lining up a launching-soon Kickstarter (the brand's first) to give the world another shot at liking Sony's Xperia Play design from 2011. 


Update: A Kickstarter pre-launch page is now live listing features like the 6.8-inch OLED screen, camming in 2400 x 1080 resolution pixels with a 165hz refresh for buttery gaming. 

The Pocket Play does look good, but looks like nothing more than a modern take on Sony's briefly famous Xperia Play. 

The XP was a great piece of kit, capable of playing original PlayStation games via a PSN app, emulated and Android games, with a neat slide mechanism. But since Sony and PlayStation never really took firm ownership of the gadget, it wasn't exactly a roaring success. 

Ayaneo pocket play

Likely an Android device and rather over-priced, enjoy the images and wait for the campaign to launch for an early-bird price. 

Sure, the screen and processors will be to spec for retro and mobile games. But, as with many modern gadgets, will Ayaneo really do the R&D to master the slide mechanism or will it be a cheap clunky point of weakness? 

Find out in 2026

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