New PS Store Sale Discounts 250 PS5, PS4 Retro Games and Remasters

@Xenomorph_79 You can find The Raven Remastered for less than £2.49? Cool. Where?

@Xenomorph_79 then you have to mess about with discs like a peasant from twenty years ago. no ta.

@Xenomorph_79 Whether it's rubbish or not is debatable and irrelevant.
Your statement "These discounts are not very good can get them cheaper buying used physical" is factually incorrect.

@Xenomorph_79 eh… but digital doesn’t really compete with physical now does it? I’ve gone full digital and haven’t looked back. It’s great. I don’t have plastic and discs cluttering my living room, I don’t have to stand up to change games, and if I ever lose them. Well. I can’t. As long as the store is operational, I can just redownload them.

Quite tempted by Catherine: Full Body (nudge nudge, wink wink).

Hmmm Metro Redux ahead of Metro Exodus ps5 version looks like a good buy.

@Xenomorph_79 games ship broken now. So a physical disc is only as good as the store that can patch it.

Don't all the deals show up if you scroll to the right of the deals tab and press "All Deals"?

Spyro seems tempting for €14, then again I don’t know have I the time with Mass Effect taking up all my spare time 🤔

Don't know what hurdles they had to jump through to pull it off,but Abylight's Super Hydorah & Cursed Castilla finally got onto Sony's indie invite list,first discount since Aug. 2018!👍
Tempted by Scott Pilgrim but unsure if I'll bite yet. Turrican Flashback collection too,though $26. 🤔

@Xenomorph_79
I generally agree with you. There are a few exceptions though. Bayonetta PS4 for £7.99 is not too bad for example. I don’t mind paying a couple of pounds extra to support the dev and platform and not have to switch discs. When the majority of digital prices can be 4 x physical pricing though (when accounting for trade back) then I’m not that nice.

@Xenomorph_79 Where are you selling games to make most of your money back? The most I’ve ever gotten on a trade in is $30. Sony exclusives are now $70 so that’s roughly 40%. If you get more than that somewhere I need to know so I can hop on that.

@ankehuber
Me too. +1. This is why I don’t buy digital games if they are more than £10

@FatalBubbles

Seems like you are in the US where I understand deals are worse, but In the U.K. I use CEX (computer exchange).

Resident evil: village for example, being a new game, is one of the worst deals: £55 to buy, and they give £41 trade back value. So if I thought it was worth it, it would be £14 (PS5, for PS4 it would only be £11).

Older games are much less of course.

Plus if I could be bothered to sell privately I could get more. Could also get it for less if I checked for cheapest prices online then waited for delivery, but...

Prices vary. On occasions I’ve actually got more trade back than I spent.

I honestly don't get the argument for digital over physical; if one is happy to pay absolutely insane prices then that's up to them I guess. I'm happy to get up off my butt to change a disc now and then if it means I pay £15 - £20 less for it.

Case in point: I purchased RE: Village (physical) for £45 (it is £55 on the PS store) and once I nabbed the Plat I stuck it on Amazon marketplace for £43, it was snapped up immediately and I netted £36 for it after fees. So the whole experience cost me 9 quid.

@Porkman85 A peasant? What? Install from disk, 10 mins tops (on a big game), download of 70 or so gig? For me personally about 6 hours (and yes, this peasant has fibre . If I had better internet coverage and the games were cheaper it would be a no brainer, but being a smart peasant is always better than a foolish, silver spooned whale.

@Fatal Bubbles
I myself sell on to a couple of blokes at work. Knock a tenner off of full retail, they can't get it cheaper, they well happy.
Biggest loss I ever had, £15, on Demon's Souls. That is, I knocked 15 off the full price.🙄
Don't trade.
Sell.

@Xenomorph_79 Even when they were going to do it, you still had the option to redownload games you'd already bought. If the servers were fully deactivated, physical gamers wouldn't be much better off, as you wouldn't be able to download any patches or DLC

@thefourfoldroot I paid £35 for resident evil from Tesco’s - day one in a insane deal and could have made a few quid selling it back to cex after completing if I’d binge completed it. A fair few people did.

I keep my games but £70 digital versus half price physical and people still argue “digital is better” same people will cry when they can’t access their collection in a few years.

pros -
Cheaper (usually 25% often up to 50% cheaper day on if you are savvy)
Resell value
Occasionally receiving copies early
Quicker to install.

Cons -

You have to change disc.

Cue more physical media whingers trying to enforce their superior knowledge over digital delivery like no other digi buyers are aware of the pros and cons of both.
It just gets really boring.

@Stocksy wow, you know, I've never ever ever looked at it like that.
I'm so stupid.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

@thefourfoldroot That's crazy!

@Xenomorph_79 @Skywalker1080p Impressive. I would never pay close to full price for a used game but kudos to you guys for finding people who will!

I won't scoff at anyone who prefers physical media. With several boxes of Criterion discs tucked away in my basement, it would make me a total hypocrite. However, I've been a digital game convert since the PS4. I think it comes down to differences in how we approach gaming.

I like to hop in and out of different games until one really sticks with me. Case in point, I've just gotten sucked into Ryza 2 and will probably pour another 30 hours into it before I'm done. Buying a new game and completing it in enough time for it to retain its value is a foreign concept to me. While @Xenomorph_79 and @JB_Whiting 's approach is much more fiscally responsible and less hoarder-centric than mine, I don't see me going back to physical games.

@JB_Whiting I did the exact same thing with Returnal. I paid 75 for it, beat it 3 times, sold it for 55. I’m happy with a 20 dollar loss.

@naruball No need to be a pedant. I think everyone understands that the original poster was being slightly hyperbolic.

@Porkman85 i'd trade my digital ps5 in for a disc drive ps5 today. It's definitely nothing worth bragging about. The digital marketplace for ps5 is for mugs at the minute.

@Dan_ozzzy189 I don’t know you at all but yes I would concur you are.

@Dan_ozzzy189 ditto the other way round we are bored of you clowns telling us physical is dead.

I’m really hesitant to grab shadow of the colossus. What are the odds of it falling more for my triple dip? I still have about a third of the PS Plus Collection to go trough before needing it but at the same time it seems to be the lowest it gets (beside Ps Plus freebie) over the last 2 years…

@naruball no one needs this game, no matter the price

@Jayofmaya awww don't cry. I hear CDs are very cheap now too.

When it comes to physical versus digital, it depends on the platform and the game.

Switch: All digital except for Smash Ultimate and Link’s Awakening Remake

PS5: single player games are purchased physically. Multiplayer titles are purchased digitally.

@FatalBubbles
From a cost perspective yes. Only minor issue is that this is trade back value (you get slightly less for cash - £35 in the case of Resi Village) so you are at the mercy of what is on the shelves when you go in if you want full value by getting a trade in voucher. For me that’s no problem as I have a million games I’ve not had time to get (and about £85 worth of vouchers just sitting in my wallet therefore) but it’s would be annoying if you were waiting for one niche game to appear and had nothing else you wanted to play 🤷‍♂️

Obviously you can also sell on eBay or something, and likely spend a bit less overall, but that’s too much effort for me, lol.

Do they not have similar stores in the US?

@Porkman85 like i said, i've got digital. It's not big and hard.

@Porkman85 as far as I can see we are all freaking Peasants.............I know my place......all hail to the Porkman 👑
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=360oz9duZNU

@most people here
This isn't an article on digital vs physical. As for me, I'm getting Max Payne. How I wish Max Payne 2 and 3 were also available on PS4/5. Maybe one day.

@thefourfoldroot GameStop is the big game seller in the states. As I mentioned the best I’ve ever got for a trade is $30 in store credit and that’s if you can trade a game back in within 30 days of it releasing.

With the PS5 game share, my friend and I just take turn buying digital games so in reality I end up paying $30 or $35 for a game which is perfectly fine for me. If I were buying all digital by myself I’d be losing money like crazy.

@TheRedComet Funny, from my experience from my experience physical games from Nintendo hod their value way better than PS games... I'm the complete opposite of you...

@naruball I think he means the games people actually want to play 🤪

@Porkman85 or digital only like a mug from the future 😆

@Ambassador_Kong actually, not really. This is something that is mentioned over and over again and is treated as fact, just like the rumour about the remake of The Last of Us. Some people genuinely believe that every single physical game is cheaper than the digital version, while a bit of research shows that that's not the case at all any more.

@fR_eeBritney since so many people have different tastes, doesn't that vary massively?

@J2theEzzo you know what they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure

@Xenomorph_79 when you say Sony shutting down servers, surely that only matters for online only games, so it wouldn't matter if you had digital or disc, you still wouldn't be able to play it?

If I bought a game digital and had downloaded it to my library, I can't see at what point in time I'd never be able to play it again?

@Xenomorph_79 The first part of your comment makes perfect sense and I agree with you.

The second, not so much. Considering the reactions we get here every time there's a sale, I'd argue many ps gamers definitely like these sales.

I'm all digital. But then I'm not bothered about playing games day one so very rarely spend over £10-15 on ANY game. I'll get my yearly copy of FIFA or PES on day one, and that's it. Not bothered about anything else, even if it takes a year or two to get them.

@AgentGuapo Yeah I totally agree. Using disc versions of games is like jumping back 10 years or so. Even if they are a bit cheaper, and you can resell them etc I don't really care. When I decide to buy a game, it's on my account for ever no matter what. And it wont be possible for it to break either.

I do a bit of both, physical and digital. There's certainly benefits to each approach but I mainly use digital for PS Plus offers and sales. If it's a game I really want on day one then I'll get the physical copy especially now that they're going for £70 RRP. I want something physical to show for it that I can keep on my shelf forever or have the option to trade as opposed to something that can disappear if, hypothetically, Sony shuts up shop one day.

And as someone with a large blu-ray, CD and Vinyl collection I'll always argue that physical media is superior in every way.

HA! Bard's Tale for a few coins. 😁 this is "must have" rpg parody.

@naruball then you won't forsake me for eating your discarded sandwiches?

@J2theEzzo haha. By all means. Eat away!

It’s so jarring constantly reading these comments of physical buyers going on about how much cheaper it is than digital

WE GET IT

People who go all digital don’t do it to save money. There’s no need to keep going on about it being cheaper. That isn’t the motivation.

Digital has many advantages to many people. And we’re happy to pay a little extra to get them. Though if you’re combining discounted gift cards with these sales it’s really not that bad anyway.

@Porkman85 haha it's funny because I actually used to collect CDs too, from the cheap and common to rare small prints like Hollow Existence by Northlane of which 72 were made. So, not all CDs are cheap and your comment is supposed to be demeaning but just isn't. Thanks for reading. Enjoy your day.

@Errr To be fair, physical users are constantly having to read 'death to physical is coming' type articles and comments. It's not really surprising they are on the defensive.
Me personally, I do not see why there is not room for both. Physical is still supported in every other entertainment industry. Yes even music cds still exist.

New AAA games i always purchase the physical disc as the psn store always adds on an extra tenner sometimes more and thats just obscene considering that there is no packaging or postage..i used to trade games in but then at some point when i decided i wanted to play a certain title again i had to purchase it again so i managed to go the whole ps4 gen without trading a single game in or selling one..digital will never replace physical but there is room for both to co-exist...if only the same could be said on these forums as of late..

@AgentGuapo I have bought about 10 digital games in the entire PS4 lifespan or less. 🤪

And that is including a expansion and games with no physical release.