If there’s one thing to know about running a digital game store it’s that it’s a lot like designing a boat. Copy everyone else for the basic form and structure, and then stick as many sails on it as you possibly can. Right now under the ‘Deals & Offers’ tab on the PlayStation Store you can find nine – NINE! – sets of special offers, ranging from single games like Fortnite through to broader collections.
A big part of that is because Sony kicked off two new promotions yesterday, based around Halloween and just good old discounting for PlayStation Plus subscribers.
Update: Turns out that the Halloween sale is actually coming to an end – thanks MrYd – which kind of just proves my point that there’s a ridiculous number of sales and promotions!
There’s over 200 titles to find in the Halloween one, with the full collection here, but the fifteen that Sony chose to highlight are:
- Alien: Isolation – The Collection – £7,99
- Amnesia: Collection – £6.19
- Bloodborne GOTY – £14.99
- Doom – £7.99
- Dying Light: The Following – Enhanced Edition – £14.99
- Emily Wants to Play Too – £2.49
- Little Nightmares Complete Edition – £9.49
- Outlast 2 – £6.49
- Resident Evil 7 Gold Edition – £24.99
- SOMA – £5.79
- The Evil Within 2 – £19.99
- The Inpatient – £12.99
- Until Dawn: Rush of Blood – £7.99
- The Persistence – £15.49 (PS+)
- The Exorcist: Legion VR – £17.99
Double Discount is a sale that’s basically just for PS+ subscribers, but likes to pretend it’s for everyone. Many of the usual suspects pop up, but with the EU PS Blog suffering from both the usual lack of pricing and some bizarre link diarrhoea, here’s a few of the highlights:
- Yakuza 6 – £23.99
- Yakuza Kiwami 2 – £27.99
- PES 2019 – £19.99
- Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy – £18.89
- Watch Dogs 2 – £13.99
- Dishonored: The Complete Collection – £17.99
- South Park: The Fractured but Whole – £16.31
- Prey: Digital Deluxe Edition – £10.49
- Guacamelee! 2 – £11.19
- Zone of the Enders: 2nd Runner – MARS – £12.49
Source: EU PS Blog
MrYd
The halloween sale ends tomorrow. It wasn’t added yesterday, they just highlighted a few of the offers before it ends.
The new sales are the double discounts for PS+ members, an “under £13” sale (ending on the 21st), and an “under £4” one, also ending on the 21st.
But it’s easy to get confused when they’ve got that many deals all running at once, and they don’t always announce them. There’s a DLC sale that started last week I didn’t even notice.
My wishlist on the store is current valued at £52 or something. I put things on there and spend a couple of days deleting things based on previous discounts, how much I _really_ want to play them, and what RDR2 has to say about it.
Stefan L
Stupid Sony having too many stupid confusing and overlapping sales.
MrYd
Not helped by the way they tend to go from 12am on a Wednesday (although prices may not change until later) until 11:59pm on another Wednesday. So usually just a minute under 15 days.
Except when it’s longer, like the new deals this week that last 22 days (minus a minute).
Or the deal of the week, that last 8 days (minus that minute).
It’s that extra 23 hours and 59 minutes that means all the deals are overlapping and confusing. Along with not always promoting all the deals. And failing to put them all in one place until hours after the prices drop, and then not putting the new offers in the “deals & offers” menu.
Best thing to do is have a look at https://psprices.com/region-gb/index some time on a Wednesday morning. That should stop you missing anything or getting confused.
Unless they throw in a weekend only deal. Or special discounted prices on a new game that may run for any number of weeks before and/or after it launches.
parryman
I quite want Watch Dogs 2 and Prey.
But Pretty has PS+ written all over it.
I know if I buy it, it’ll be on next month’s free game list…
parryman
*Prey not Pretty
Geffdof23
I’m thinking the same thing about Dishonored
MrYd
Prey does sound like something that might be on PS+ at some point, possibly.
But it’s £10.49 for the deluxe version, which includes the DLC. So you can spend £9.99 for the game now (and risk it being on PS+ next month or whenever), or spend £10.49 and get £15.99 of DLC included, which you wouldn’t get with it on PS+.
I think I’ve just convinced myself to spend that extra 50p on it.
parryman
You make a compelling argument…