It’s Amazon Prime Day again, apparently. Or rather, Amazon Big Deal Day, which precedes Black Friday. Shop til you drop, baby. Amazon Prime sales feel more like clearance sales and usually don't have much that impresses me, but this week you can actually score some pretty good deals on video games. We’ve got some great buyer’s guides for games and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:accessories that are on sale this week, which include deep discounts on top-tier games like Elden Ring and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, as well as sales on newer games like Mortal Kombat 1 an♏💎d Dead Island 2.
While going through the list of deals it occurred to me, as it does almost every day, that there sure were a lot of video games this year. Way more than I could keep up with, and I play games for a living. With such a massive influx of games competing for shelf space this year, the deals are going to be unbelievable - at least when it comes to buyingဣ physical.
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There’s nothing new about end of year sales. With the pressure of gift-giving season and the desire to bolster their Q4 profits (I wonder if those two things are related?) retaꦅilers lower prices on games starting in October every year. It’s a good way to get rid of games that have undersold and are now taking up space just as an influx of big holiday games are ready to come out. Patient gamers know they can pick up all the seven-out-of-tens and every Ubisoft game (if those are different things) they missed from the first half of the year around this time. What makes this year differ💯ent, of course, is the ridiculous amount of new games that came out.
If you missed Dead Space, or Resident Evil 4, or Jedi: Survivor, or Final Fantasy 16, or any of the other dozens of high-profile triple-A games that launched this year, you’re almost certainly going to find some deals. Middling titles like Atomic Heart, Redfall, Exoprimal, Immortals of Aveum, and Fort Solis are ba🧔sically guaranteed to go on sale. Assassin’s Creed Mirage has only been out a week, and I’m positive you’ll be able to get at least a few bucks off of it come November. Everything from Starfield to Gollum is going to be discounted, and the sheer number of games may even drive harder discounts than we’re used to. Maybe not on Zelda, but certainly everything else.
It’s going to be interesting to see the consequences of having so many new games in one year has on the market. While cheap games are great, I can’t imagine this bodes well for the future of physical media. Publishers don’t want their games devalued, a꧒nd retailers don’t want to sell things at a loss, but there’s only so many plastic boxes that can fit inside a building. If GameStop, Target, and Amazon have a run on physical games, it’s only going to give publishers more incentive to stop making them.
We’re already seeing it happen. In just a couple weeks Remedy will launch Alan Wake 2 as a digital-exclusive - perhaps the biggest triple-A single-player game to ever do it. No one is going to have to worry about boxed copies of Alan Wake 2 depreciating on the shelf at Best Buy in six months, giving Remedy (and the digital plꦯatforms) full control over the price.
All that to say: enjoy the mega sales this holiday season. Pick up all the games you missed out on this year (and last, did I mention Marvel’s Midnight Suns is lovely?) and cherish🅺 the opportunity to buy physical games at a discount. You might not have the chance to for much longer.