Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2024

My haul was just Mario Party Jamboree for $35 shipped from QVC, and we also got my brother-in-law that discounted switch/Mario Kart 8 bundle. Kind of a big gift, but he will be going through a really rough time over the next year, and he’s always saying how he wants to get back into Nintendo games after transitioning to being an XBox guy after Gamecube. I’ll be down to play some MK8 with him online whenever he needs to take his mind off things. Also got his daughter that Bluey game for $20.

Kinda game related: got the husband Phigolf 2 for $200, a nice drop from the usual $300 it sells for. Wii Golf on steroids basically, and he is a big golfer (played in college) so it will keep him busy and training during winter.

Will probably just get that $99 yearly Humble Choice deal and that’ll be it.
 
Vinny said:
There's been no deals in the NS Lite, right? I've wanted to get one for a while now but just can't justify the retail price vs just getting a regular NS.
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Probably the only deal would have been the Zelda one with a circle discount on target.

Time to buy one of those would have been years ago when they were 40 on Amazon warehouse.
 
Vinny said:
There's been no deals in the NS Lite, right? I've wanted to get one for a while now but just can't justify the retail price vs just getting a regular NS.
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Pretty shocking we haven’t seen them for $150 by now. Target and Walmart had the animal crossing Lites for $199 that included digital copy of animal crossing. Then there’s Nintendo with refurbished units for $170.
 
briandadude said:
Pretty shocking we haven’t seen them for $150 by now. Target and Walmart had the animal crossing Lites for $199 that included digital copy of animal crossing. Then there’s Nintendo with refurbished units for $170.
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The price cut will very likely happen when the Switch 2 releases. Remember all those cheaper 3DS cuts once the Switch 1 came out.
 
Nothing- said:
I can appreciate and agree with most of the things you've said in both posts. But I don't believe you are giving enough credence to populism and cascading public opinion. i.e. Shifting polarity among console popularity. The status quo can change on a dime with a new console launch, in regards to popular belief and public sentiment. Like when the 360 came out. Or when the PS4 released.

You might be about to witness a new era of rejection, and consolidation. The market is perfectly ripe for someone to come out and blow everyone's expectations away. Gamers have less hardware brand loyalty than ever. They are not often spending 'new release' money on games either.

You're absolutely right in that's where Sony is leaning. I get it. I see what is coming next. Squeeze the current subscribers. They've already shown us. It's plain a day. Like I've said a hundred times already: Switch 2 INC. lessons will be learned. The next cycle is clearly setting up to become Nintendo-dominant. As long as they don't make any big missteps. The market really doesn't see what's coming up.
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If this were an older generation, I'd agree with you but I do think Spencer was onto something when he acknowledged earlier this year that losing the Xbox One/PS4 generation was fatal because it was when consumers really tied themselves to a platform with their digital games. As such, a new console today just isn't the hard reset anymore. It's why even Nintendo has made clear customers' digital libraries will carry through. The platform commitments make changing costs significantly high now for players. It's another way for Sony to maximize monetization opportunities with its player base, and another big reason why abandoning disc media next gen won't do much, if any, harm to its bottomlines.

May be Sony offers the drive as an accessory come PS6, but we all know that pretty much means it'll be forgotten and barely supported. The fact that Sony was content to sell PS5 Pro with no version where the drive came attached, and when it's the luxury console targeted to its whales (i.e., the ones who bit$# but still will pay the highest price with the disc drive) -- well, I think that says it all for how Sony sees disc media come next gen.
 
Well the crunchyroll cyber monday sale is a bust. No backordered items or preorders. Most of the decent items I was looking at during BF are now backordered.
 
They can all say digital libraries will carry over but I don't believe that for a fact. These companies at most have done cross buy. Sony was far more generous business savvy during the vita psp ps3 generation when they were in the losing position. Allowing cross buy and game sharing with up to 4 others made dlc buying far more palpable to many users since you'd just find a group to join up with I've read. Then once they righted the ship they quickly took both away basically.

Ignoring the occasional cross buy retro titles getting ps4/5 ports that trickle in cross buy is practically dead. Granted they no longer have a handheld to crossbuy support. Which is a shame as the vita og was a good system minus the proprietary memory.
 
Youngnoble said:
Sony is also limiting the production of the disc drive. If there was a time to make more. It's now. They feel most pro owners will just purchase digital.
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That’s why I didn’t buy anything this Black Friday cause I don’t have a disc drive for my ps5 pro . I regret not buying a disc drive
 
Youngnoble said:
Sony is also limiting the production of the disc drive. If there was a time to make more. It's now. They feel most pro owners will just purchase digital.
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Look at it this way:

Sony (and everyone else) are highly investing in eliminating physical media and forms of ownership, therefore having the leading SKU being a digital-only device is their first step.

Also, Sony knows how many digital-only systems they produce, therefore the amount of add-on disc drives is likely to always be Total Digital Systems Made - X, where X is their risk factor to leave just the smallest bit of demand left on the table to keep prices high. If they overproduce, then they rot on the shelf, or worse, become discounted and get more people to slap them on to buy cheap physical media.

So there will always be less disc drive add-ons than total digital systems made. If they could get away with it, they would go to digital-only systems sold and have the disc drive as a permanent add-on versus having disc-based system in stock. I think this gen is a successful test of those waters and the next PS will be sold digital only and the disc drive will always be an optional additional purchase. I bet it's also ugly and doesn't neatly fit into the system as an added dagger to dissuade physical purchases...

And physical media next gen will likely become even more boutique in purchases, utilizing print on demand services or stuff like Limited Run Games for anything that's not surefire "AAA product on shelves" for however long that lasts.
 
Legendbatista said:
That’s why I didn’t buy anything this Black Friday cause I don’t have a disc drive for my ps5 pro . I regret not buying a disc drive
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If you're in the US check walmart. I went to four different stores this weekend and they all had The PS5 Disc drive in the case. Each store had one or two. One store even had two of the gold Zelda mini Switch's in the case. Seems people are only looking online and not going in store. None of the stores I went to were busy at all.
 
shadowysea07 said:
They can all say digital libraries will carry over but I don't believe that for a fact. These companies at most have done cross buy. Sony was far more generous business savvy during the vita psp ps3 generation when they were in the losing position. Allowing cross buy and game sharing with up to 4 others made dlc buying far more palpable to many users since you'd just find a group to join up with I've read. Then once they righted the ship they quickly took both away basically.

Ignoring the occasional cross buy retro titles getting ps4/5 ports that trickle in cross buy is practically dead. Granted they no longer have a handheld to crossbuy support. Which is a shame as the vita og was a good system minus the proprietary memory.
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I think what people are saying is that version of the game will still be on your account and accessible because of backwards compatibility.

Right now my PS4 downloads work on my PS5. For the PS6, PS4 and PS5 digital downloads will work and carry over. You're right, cross buy was a thing with the Vita, but that doesn't seem to be because Sony wanted your games to carry over, more of an inventive to get people to buy the Vita by showing that you already own some Vita games.

You mention retro titles which technically is still around. I still have PS2 digital (from PS4 purchased) games that work on my PS5 via the PS4 backwards compatibility. Every PS4 release of PS2 retro titles, works on the PS5 too. I don't see that going away though Sony hasn't released many retro digital titles in a while.
 
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Put a fork in it because I think Cyber Monday is done, y'all.

I do love Play-Asia for literally just putting "CYBER MONDAY" literally on top of their existing Black Friday marquee ad.
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That's 100% reflecting the effort I've seen today.
 
ritchardf said:
another thread, another Nothing rant about sony. I find it ironic that sony is doing exactly what nintendo does but sony gets vilified and nintendo is held up like a champion of the people. 3rd party games haven't sold well on nintendo consoles in generations but you act like everyone will leave sony because their inflated sales goals aren't met. where will square enix go? put all their games on gamepass and try to survive on the crumbs microsoft gives them?

and what exactly do you think Switch 2 is going to be? it is going to be a $400+, full generation behind console that will sell because it is the only place to buy nintendo games, that is it. third parties aren't flocking to it and away from everyone else, because nintendo consoles don't move third party games.
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If the disc drive and physical media support is going away then Sony is purposely choosing the Xbox full-digital business model. That case study is right there in front of our eyes for anyone to see, plain as day. and your service is nowhere near as good as Gamepass.

People start spending less, fewer new release and full-priced game sales. Publishers don't sell enough retail copies of games. Customers leave. simply because someone else is performing better and more exciting business. It's not even about NSW2; it's shifting public sentiment.

It's not like that's something I want. PS5 is my main console that I use every day. I have been PS-first since the original in 1994, longer than most people. But digital sales and corporate oversight are not good right now, and we've seen what Sony wants to do with their disc drive. That you have to go online now, register and verify it, in order to install one is insane too.

Look how many people are talking about Xbox sales and buying games this week. Virtually no one. People aren't paying for new games. They also aren't going to pay that kind of money (~$600 to $700+ startup) to re-enter closed-loop, all-digital ecosystems again next time. There aren't new customers going out and randomly picking up an Xbox console on a whim these holidays because the service commitment has changed. Anyone who has dropped annual service (PS+ or GPU) in the last two years knows how that made them feel, about ownership. You can't just go onto CDKeys and easily buy a 1-year PS+ card for $30 or $40 anymore like we could for many years. This is also a service that provides nothing, in my eyes.

Like I said, customer satisfaction is at an all-time low. Xbox fanatics that use GPU every day love their service, but most people do not. A ton of kids are also interested in neither Sony nor Xbox.

It's just like what I hear everyone else saying, and that I've never agreed with: "you can just get all of the Sony exclusives on PC now". Never agreed with that statement before, but I've almost arrived. If we want to buy physical, then we can do so on our currently owned systems.

I know. You don't care. Posting it anyways cuz you asked, and mentioned me.
 
Souffrir said:
Kirby and the Forgotten Land ($27.50 @woot)
Fire Emblem Warriors ($17.40 @woot)
Super Mario Odyssey ($30 @walmart)
Super Mario 3D World ($30 @walmart)
TLOZ: Tears of the Kingdom ($30 @walmart)
Like a Dragon: Ishin (PS4) ($30 @Amazon)
$100 eShop Credit ($80 @costco)
OLED Switch Holiday Bundle ($275 @Target)

It wasn’t a whole ton, to be fair, but I very rarely splurge much on games at one go like this.
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Nice! Those are great.

I ended up buying
Pikmin 1+2 for 29.99 (best buy)
Luigi's Mansion 2 HD for 29.99 (gamefly)
Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble for 19.99 (amazon)
Prince of Persia the Lost Crown for 19.99 (amazon)
 
I'm kind of in shock this year: I actually spent $0 on games. Words can't describe my disappointment with how the Xbox store sale that went live two weeks ago is literally the only sale that happened on that digital storefront for the entirety of BF and CM. Xbox credit was not on sale for 20% that I could find anywhere and digital games are just non-existent outside of first party, so that was it. I debated Silent Hill 2 on Steam since it was a good deal, but I want to play it in the home theater and not on PS5.

Instead we went out on BF to the local big mall and it was slammed. Got deals on things not advertised or we had our eye on for a while for home decor. Quickly realizing that the only deals to be found on BF now are ones you hunt for in the wild. Biggest score was a $500 Vitamix for the wife off Woot for $150 new. Insanely good deal and finally will have one of these beasts for smoothies/fraps.
 
I've heard the rumors of that but knock on wood I've been fortunate enough to have not experienced it myself.

I assume that you can't just get them to replace it?
 
Woot‘s prices are good, but I’ve never had things arrive so consistently damaged. They use Amazon for fulfillment, so you already know what kind of care and packaging to expect, but they must have their B team on these packages. Worse than usual for Amazon, and I’ve gotten some with damage that could most likely be explained by some of their stock possibly being resold customer returns.
 
Vinny said:
My SMRPG from Woot was the PAL version. Gross.

Guessing Amazon is never going to figure out to not co-mingle their stock with third party sellers' stock...
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Woot has the disclaimer that Nintendo Switch games are all region free on all the 1st party games. Personally I wouldn’t expect a ESRB version from them.
 
johnnymavrik said:
Is this more a collector thing? The PAL version shouldn't change gameplay, right?
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The only issue is that you'll need the region specific DLC. So a PAL version means needing a PAL account to get the DLC.

It's pretty much a non-issue for most games, but something to know about.

You'll still get automatic updates and patches, no worries there. But just know that imports require region specific store funds, which a international useable credit card helps or Play-Asia sells regional cards.
 
TheKbob said:
The only issue is that you'll need the region specific DLC. So a PAL version means needing a PAL account to get the DLC.

It's pretty much a non-issue for most games, but something to know about.

You'll still get automatic updates and patches, no worries there. But just know that imports require region specific store funds, which a international useable credit card helps or Play-Asia sells regional cards.
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Occasionally there are other things like x region not getting dlc or framerate differences but those are uncommon.

Digital psn eshop and such credit you can also get online via various storefronts that sell them. Pc game supply plus iirc used to sell them. Vgp eneba cdkeys kinguin are others off the top of my head. Occasionally discounted too but that's also rare these days.

Does it require Making that region specific account as well or is that just a Sony thing? Edit nevermind it does. Missed that part in the post.
 
Not all Nintendo/eshop games have region locked DLC. Many of them are region free in the sense that you can download the DLC from your main account/region and it'll still work. For example, I have an EU copy of Mario kart 8 and it works fine with the dlc from the NA store.

I try not to make a habit of buying out of region games, but so far I haven't had any issues with DLC
 
Jodou said:
I'm kind of in shock this year: I actually spent $0 on games. Words can't describe my disappointment with how the Xbox store sale that went live two weeks ago is literally the only sale that happened on that digital storefront for the entirety of BF and CM.
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There it is.

see that's what I mean. The digital Xbox feels. That's where we're all headed with the all-digital future.

You go that route and then people buy less. much less. plain and simple. Singular source means the deals are few and far-between, and not great.
 
Jodou said:
I'm kind of in shock this year: I actually spent $0 on games. Words can't describe my disappointment with how the Xbox store sale that went live two weeks ago is literally the only sale that happened on that digital storefront for the entirety of BF and CM. Xbox credit was not on sale for 20% that I could find anywhere and digital games are just non-existent outside of first party, so that was it. I debated Silent Hill 2 on Steam since it was a good deal, but I want to play it in the home theater and not on PS5.

Instead we went out on BF to the local big mall and it was slammed. Got deals on things not advertised or we had our eye on for a while for home decor. Quickly realizing that the only deals to be found on BF now are ones you hunt for in the wild. Biggest score was a $500 Vitamix for the wife off Woot for $150 new. Insanely good deal and finally will have one of these beasts for smoothies/fraps.
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Pretty sure Dollar General had Xbox credit 20% off from Thanksgiving through last Saturday. But it sounds like you got more bang for your buck otherwise, so probably not too big a loss.
 
swordity said:
They're not taking Taco Tuesday from us are they?? 😭
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Over someone's dead body.

Though we'll also have taco Thursday still. We get slammed at work for sour cream orders among other ingredients on Thursdays and Tuesdays.

You'd never believe that a palette of sour cream could sell out in a day.


On topic I bought nothing from the sale this year as I'm trying to resist adding things to my backlog. Especially since I don't have credit to blow.
 
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shadowysea07 said:
Over someone's dead body.

Though we'll also have taco Thursday still. We get slammed at work for sour cream orders among other ingredients on Thursdays and Tuesdays.

You'd never believe that a palette of sour cream could sell out in a day.
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My manager at my GameStop would always want their Chipotle burrito with three scoops of sour cream.

That's my sour cream story.
 
My purchases this year (in two pics because the server can’t handle the one pic):

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Not pictured is Sonic X Shadow for PS5 since it’s hidden away with other XMas presents already. I wasn’t planning on grabbing SH2 but happened to be at Wally on Sunday buying some other much more mundane items and saw they had like 5 copies still and said F it, why not. Then went next door to GameStop and figured I’d keep the SH train going and grabbed the other two along with Eastward for their b2g1 sale.
 
Wow, nobody else had a deal on the Nintendo Switch besides Target; this holiday? Figured more retailers would have done a similar deal.
 
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My purchases this year (in two pics because the server can’t handle the one pic):

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Not pictured is Sonic X Shadow for PS5 since it’s hidden away with other XMas presents already. I wasn’t planning on grabbing SH2 but happened to be at Wally on Sunday buying some other much more mundane items and saw they had like 5 copies still and said F it, why not. Then went next door to GameStop and figured I’d keep the SH train going and grabbed the other two along with Eastward for their b2g1 sale.
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That's alot where did you get ps3 games from
 
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