Games consoles are always hot-ticket items – and the best Black Friday deals often bring an even greater incentive to wait before purchase in the hope of getting a decent chunk of money off. Enough to, say, buy that extra game 'for free'.
I know this as last Black Friday I waited to buy an Xbox Series X which dropped from £479 to just £329. That deal isn't live again just yet, but in this games and consoles Black Friday live round-up, myself and T3's staff of tech experts and gaming enthusiasts will be browsing the latest and greatest offers, keeping this page as up to date.
The format is simple: I've broken down the key deals by PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch sections, in which we'll only highlight the best-of-best offers, predominantly on console hardware. Below that trio of sections is our live blog, where other accessories, trinkets, games and availability updates will feed into this buying feature.
Here's hoping there'll be enough stock to go around and fulfil these great gaming Black Friday deals ahead of the Christmas break. With the likes of Sony's brand-new PS5 Pro already having received a price drop from Argos, the hottest products are already being cut in price. I'll be keeping an eye out for games and hardware I want to buy myself and sharing the love below. So happy gaming shopping one and all.
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You've gotta act quick...
After penning this deal round-up ahead of the weekend just gone, it's only taken a matter of days and hours for the best deals to sell out and/or adjust.
Take the £40 off the PS5 Pro, for example, that Argos stellar deal has now been reduced to just £10. Same to be said of the £30 off the Switch OLED with Mario Wonder, that's also now down to just £10.
But, fret not, myself and my T3 colleagues will be pulling together new and updated deals for all the best games consoles and, as and when we spot them, gaming accessories and, but of course, discounted games too!
Reducio! Harry Potter discount for Switch is magic
Was £49.99, now £14.99: there's nowhere cheaper to obtain Hogwarts Legacy for the Nintendo Switch than from the official Nintendo eShop, where you can download the digital version at a huge discount.
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Where's PlayStation's own Black Friday sale?
Even though the Xbox Store Black Friday sale started last week, Sony is yet to even announce its own PlayStation Store event yet. Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S players can nab 100s of games with massive discounts already, but PS4, PS5 and PS5 Pro owners are still in the dark. Until now, anyway.
That's because I, news editor Rik, have discovered when the PlayStation Black Friday sale starts, and you don't have too much longer to wait. It kicks off this Friday, 22 November and runs through until 2 December (Cyber Monday).
There will be some massive discounts too, with 2K Games telling me that it'll have great offers across all its games – including Borderlands 3 with a massive 90% off.
Even the recently-released Borderlands Collection: Pandora's Box, which includes the every game in the series and all the add-ons, will have a mammoth 75% off. That means it'll go from over £120 to around £20. I might even be tempted myself.
The best arcade machine of all time, now at a super low price
I'm a sucker for a retro games console or arcade machine, and Arcade1Up's reissued coin-ops are the ideal way to replay the classics in the way they were intended.
That includes what I believe to be the best arcade cabinet of all time, Star Wars, and there's now £100 off the Arcade1Up standing version. It even includes three whole games, so it's even better than the original.
