With a growing cost of living crisis, if Sony isn’t discounting the console now, then we aren’t going to see PS5 deals in the future.
Legend has it that once a year, all of the recommended retail prices take a night off and all rules go out the window for 24 hours. It’s like The Purge for discounts. Black Friday traditionally is when we see huge savings on big ticket items, consoles in particular. But, for three years in a row now, Sony has bucked the trend. Where are all the PS5 deals this Black Friday?
For weeks now, we’ve been keeping an eye open for hints and rumors of Black Friday PS5 deals. The PS5 launched way back in 2020; after two years, you could expect that a console would start to get discounts.
After all, Sony’s competitors have been discounting their consoles. There have been some great Xbox Series X Black Friday Deals, and Microsoft’s console has been out for just as long as the PS5. Meanwhile, there have been brilliant bundles, discounts, and Nintendo Switch OLED Black Friday deals, and that console’s only been out for a year.
Ahead of Black Friday, we heard that Sony had increased US PS5 stock imports significantly, in time for the release of God of War Ragnarok. It’s the biggest game Sony’s releasing this year (sorry, Horizon Forbidden West and The Last of Us Part 1), so it makes sense Sony wants and needs to have consoles on shelves, ready for all that demand.
