PS Store Game Awards Sale Has lots of PS5, PS4 Game Deals

I think these are the "Game Awards" weekend sale rather than End of Year, at least in UK.

@Robinsad Good spot, thanks!

I just bought Yakuza on disc! Wish I had it digitally. Either way, fantastic game even if it rivals Persona for it's slow slow start.

The new website is so bad. I have no prices or add to basket buttons. Tried on my phone and also on desktop.
Give me a job Sony so I can come and fix *****!

@Mpquikster considering its the ultimate edition coming with the season pass and extras and its the same price as the regular edition. Yes that is a sale.

I really feel that every article about a digital sale should be obligated to provide the caveat that “this is still significantly more expensive than physical”. For example, Valhalla, is £60 digital currently, but £50 physical, and with physical you can get £33 back when you’ve finished with it, so really it’s £60 versus £17.
Borderland 3 is £16.79 in this sale, or £10 physical with £6 back once finished, so £4.
No mans sky is £18 physical (so still less than in this digital sale) with £11 back when finished, so £7.
I could go on.
I’m not saying don’t advertise the sale, do, especially as some people are digital only, but if every article on the internet includes the caveat that these sales are still several times the price of physical we might see some more appropriate digital pricing and trade back possibilities. As it is, this cheerleading doesn’t help the situation.

I'd been considering Yakuza. Even more tempted now!

@AJDarkstar You know you get a legacy bundle for free which is all your dlc stuff from P5 if you had it. I thought it was pretty good. I ended up buying the edition with the dlc (which I said I wasn't going to ) and also got this legacy bundle to. Was pleasantly surpised.

@thefourfoldroot Amen!

@Wormold I picked up cyberpunk 2077 very cheaply. Amazon promo, buy $40+ gift card, get $10 credit additionally. Another amazon promo, watch a prime show get $5. For a physical cp2077, on launch, I paid $40. Plus I got some stickers, postcards, a poster and a world compendium booklet. All I'm saiyan is, game on!

@thefourfoldroot I mean, it IS a PS Store sale. They are generally good deals for digital games; no more, no less.

@Wormold
Especially this gen, you are correct that digital is more convenient, but that isn’t the topic of the article, price is, and the ONLY time digital is cheaper is when a publisher deliberately doesn’t release a complete edition physically so you have to buy digital.

Even then, often it is still cheaper when you account for trade in value of the physical base game even with having the DLC digitally, it’s just that they deliberately prevent you from getting that value on the digital only DLC and it sits their valueless once finished.

I very rarely keep games sitting around collecting dust anymore. Special experiences, like Astro Bot Rescue Mission yes, but I have no other physical games because I either complete my games 100%, or don’t like them enough to do so, either way I don’t need them once finished and I have no resale option on digital. This is unacceptable for a product I should own, but don’t digitally.

To use your example of TH1+2, it is currently on sale digitally for £30, it’s usually 40. It’s also £30 to buy physically (less some places but we’ll stick to high street prices). So the same when there is a digital sale, but you still lose the £18 trade back value, which means it’s actually £12 in the long run just with some money up front.

Digital should always be cheaper than physical and there should be trade back value in line with the high street, that’s all I’m saying. I’m not a physical “purist”, I’d happily go all digital if they weren’t ripping us off.