Black Friday weekend gaming deals have officially arrived, an✤d we're selectin✱g the best bargains out there.
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After weeks of build up and latherings of pre-deals, Black Friday has officially wrapped up – but the price cuts continue with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Cyber Monday. Whether you're upgrading your console setup or springing for a whole new ꦜPC rig, we're seeing some of the year's biggest savings in this year's holiday period.
We're rounding up a large variety of PS5, Xbox, Nintendo and PC gaming discounts in our dedicated 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Australian Cyber Monday gaming de🌠als hub. Just want the best of the best? Here's 🎃our top six Black Friday gaming deals that are still on offer.
6 best Black Friday gaming deals still available
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This is the digital version of t♒he PS5 Slim, so keep a wide berth if you intend to keep using discs. If you're nowadays all-digital, this discount of more than AU$150 off the Slim is a great grab🍰 pre-Christmas, assuming you're not eyeing off the PS5 Pro.
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This eBay EB Games deal on the PS5 Slim (disc) was down to AU$558 for eBay Plus subscribers last week, but this AU$628 price is still great value, and as a bonus, you don't need to be an eBay Plus subs♔criber to enjoy it.
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Wait, is this the PSVR 2 headset at a near affordable price? It's finally happened: If you've been reluctant to fork out nearly a g🐻rand for a brilliant-albeit-patchily supported peripheral, now is the time to bite. If you've already got a PS5 in the house, this is probably the best w💃ay to game in VR.
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A brilliant discount on this very recently released BioWare RPG, which we didn't expe🥀ct to get this cheap so soon. According to our review it's "an approachable, expansive action-oriented RPG," and a "true en🐭d to whatever the franchise was before".
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It's not rare to get these on sale, but if you're needing to s✤tock up for some holiday season couch co-op, this is a good price. It's among the most dep🌳endable gamepads you can get. You can get white for AU$59 - most other colours are slightly higher priced.
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This elegant, mid-range HP laptop is great if you want one device that serves as both work computer and gaming PC: It'll run games at 1080p with a smooth framerate, and it's smart enough to take to work for spreadsheets (and secret Balatro business). You can save an extra 20% on an already attractive discount by using code HP20SAVE, briꦺnging it down tཧo the price we have listed above.
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This 48% discount improves upon the AU$119 price offered during Amazon Big Deal Days, and is a great choice if you want a g🍌ood wired set of cans (and who can deny the s♍implicity of plugging a headset straight into your DualSense and / or Xbox gamepad?). It comes with 7.1 surround sound, a detachable mic and a USB DAC.
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Black Friday gaming deals - what to expect
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While video game deals themselves get plenty of airtime, accessories receive the lion's share. Headsets, hard drives, and more are typically cut by huge amounts during the sale, and that makes it the best time to grab any pe🔯ripherals you've had your eye on.
The best offers often feature subscri✨ption services like PlayStation Plus or Xbox Game Pass, though. These always seem to get money off toward the end of November (as was the case again in 2023), and it's a great oppor🐷tunity to renew your membership - or start a new one - ahead of the new year.
We've listed a few specifics based on platfo💧rm below.
Nintendo
This could be a big one. While we've accepted now that we likely won't have a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Switch 2 until 2025, this could be the original model's final hurrah. That's not to say the standard, OLED, and Lite consoles won't stick around once the new release hits the shelves, but this is the last year they'll be top dogs. That means w🍌e could see a little extra wiggle room on the RRP itself.
2024 has been a pretty average year for Nintendo Switch console bargains, but you'll usually find both the OLED and vanilla models for less than the RRP in Australia. We're hoping to see more dramatic discounts (something like AU$450 for the OLED model would make us happy) but for the m꧂ost part, it'll be software and accessories that'llও get the more substantial cuts.
PS5
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2024 was an excellent year for PS5 deals in general. Not only is stock no longer an issue, but we saw the very first price cuts ever on the full console over the summer and two day-one bundles on the new PS5 Slim over Black Friday. Straight discounts didn't hit during the event itself, but that could change this year. After all, we've got the PS5 Pro to contend with on November 7 - a particularly impressive mid-cycle refresh. No, we're not expecting 🔜that $699.99 price tag to waver on Black Friday itself, but we could be in with a shot at some bundle deals. Instead, the PS5 Slim could well drop to its own record-lows again, having previously been spotted at AU$650 this year so far.
If you have any gaps in your game library from the past year or so, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Black Friday PS5 deals offer you a chance to catch up. Everything from hot new releases to old favorites are discounted throughout the event, but it's well worth keeping a close eye on games released in the first half of the year for the biggest s🥃avings. Last year Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Island, Final Fantasy XVI, and Resident Evil 4 Remake all saw record low prices for the first time during Black Friday gaming deals. Of course, the usual classics are generally discounted during this time as well.
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Of course, if your library's all stocked up there are plenty of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 accessories to refresh your setup. The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:DualSense controller is likely to be a front runner this year, after enjoying low prices of AU$79 throughout 2024. We're expecting costs to settle back to this position come November as well. However, if you're after something a little out of the box we'd also recommend keeping a close eye on the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Victrix Pro BFG. Our favorite 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 controller of the lot, it's already cheaper than the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:DualSense Edge an🍎d could be primed for its first major discounts this Black Friday.
Xbox
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We also saw the Xbox Series X take its own price cuts over the course of last year๊ with AU$50 off the console. Discounts haven't been as abundant in 2024, but we're hoping for prices to hit around AU$699 during Black Friday, though the Xbox Series X tends to receive fewer discounts compared to its stablemate the Xbox Series S.
If you're already set for 🔯a console, though, we tend to see both first-party an𝓡d third-party Xbox games go for very cheap during Black Friday. More reliable is the Xbox controller, which you can usually nab for AU$69 during big sale events.
PC
It's all about hardware for PC gamers. Keyboards, mice, headsets, and mics from across the spectrum get massive reductions of up to 60% or more, while prebuilt rigs also drop a few hundred dollars on the regular. In much the same way, laptops are worthy contenders for a saving. These machines receive some of the most noteworthy discounts of Black Friday, and those reductions are available everywhere from Amazon to Newegg. Considering the high price of the top 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:gaming laptops to start with, Bla꧂ck Friday is the perfect opportunity to buy theꦓm as a result.
Black Friday gaming deals - FAQ
When will Black Friday gaming deals start in Australia?
The sales event of the year traditionally takes place toward the end of November - to be precise, the final Friday of the month. That means you can expect 2024's Black Friday gaming deals to occur on November 29.
However, they won't be limited to that one day. Black Friday kicks off much earlier than you might expect, and it continues into the following week as well (at which point the savings morph into 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Cyber Monday gaming deals). That means you should start keeping an eye out from mid-November - while the best discounts are reserved for Black Friday itself, lots of good ones will make an appearance before tꦓhen.
Where will the best Black Friday gaming deals be?
Will there be PS5 and Xbox Series X Black Friday gaming deals?
Discounts on PS5 or Xbox Series X games and accessorie🔯s are already there for the taking, while the Xbox Series S console has landed a saving of AU$100.
For the to𒈔p-range next-gen consoles, it's a different story. Even though we were hoping we might see discounts on these ones, that was probably too much to hope for given the stock issues still aren't fully resolved. But that stock problem is one thing to note here, as the PS5 especially seems to have miraculously appeared with stock just in time for Black Friday. So if you've been waiting less for a discount and more for just opportunity, you could be in luck.
Should you wait for Black Friday gaming deals?
Yes, you should definitely hold fiꦦre on any purchases until Black Friday gaming deals kick off at the end of November. Like all tech, games get significant price cuts throughout the event and many items hit all-time lows. That includes everything from the latest PS5 titles to Xbox consoles, so there's little benefit t💮o jumping the gun here.
However, on the flip-side of that, you'll need ꦡto be quick when the sales roll around. They can sell out quickly, and many form blink-and-you'll-miss-it 'Lightning Deals' on Amazon. In other words, stay alert throughout the week of Black Friday - getting the best reductions will depend on it.
The Black Friday gaming deals aren't going to be the only good offers for the rest of the year: make sure you check out our regularly updated 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best gaming deals in Australia page.
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