PS Store Planet of the Discounts Sale Has Almost 500 PS5, PS4 Game Deals

Is werewolf any good as might buy it

Incredible how many sales Sony pumps out.

95% of all entertainment has such a short day in the sun at full price. Why but a £30 film on Disney when in 2 months it’s a tenner on DVD and 4 months it’s added to the streaming service? I get there aren’t too many PS5 owners about, but I think we’re all starting to learn preorders and day one purchases are pointless when £70 game prices drop so quickly.

@XFinest_KnightX it's pretty standard for the industry as a whole to be fair. If you check GOG.com, Steam, Epic, Humble Bundle etc - there's always some kind of sale on. Some are bigger than others but there's always a new sale to replace the old sale that just finished.

This is how the world copes with the fact that "digital games are more expensive than physical games". I've never seen The Witcher 3 GOTY edition for sale for anything less than £10 retail for a physical copy, and yet it's £7 for a digital copy, what feels like every other week (it's really not every other week - my point is it's such a consistent reduction in price that you have to be mad to pay full price- £35, when there's definitely going to be another sale at some point)

They definitely go on rotations with certain publishers and indie teams. For example a couple years ago Supergiant Games' used to go on deep sales every month it seemed liked. Bastion would be $3 and Transistor would be $4. However now neither of those games have been on sale for over a year.

Is Yakuza like a dragon on ps4 discounted also? I need to take a look, hopefully there will be more stuff that is 50% at least off

Just took one month of EA play to try FIFA, downloaded a bunch of game including burnout but now it has a good sale. Anyway to buy it to own? It only says download to console but I would like to own it as I don’t plan on renewing EA Play.

@themightyant ith regards indie publishers unable to put discounts on their games - do you have examples? I know there was an article recently mentioning something to that effect, but frankly every sale Sony puts out there (with a few exceptions e.g. the "weekend sale" this last weekend, and other specific sales where they're targeting AA/AAA games specifically) there's a point about 3 or 4 pages into the sales listings where I've clearly left the land of really well known/well reputed games. I can believe that indie games struggle to get promoted on PSN - to be fair the "console war" always seems to be about who can outperform who. The store does seem to prioritise AAA games, as though it's saying "you're the proud owner of a powerful gaming console, here are some of the latest things it can do" whereas PC based storefronts only really seem bothered that you own a computer, and will suggest games you might like rather than games that it feels will utilise your hardware. Anyway - it might actually be nothing to do with that, and more to do with Sony prioritising AAA publishers because they're AAA publishers, or maybe it's just sorting by popularity and it's the PlayStation gamers themselves who are buying up the games that they feel best use the hardware/AAA publishers.

My point is that except for the fairly rare sale that only targets AAA games, there doesn't really seem to be a shortage of discounted indie games (pages and pages of them in fact, most of the time), but they're usually buried under all the more popular games.

@RunGMhx you need to let EA play expire, after it's expired you get the option to buy the game. I don't think Sony can do anything to remove the game from your account in the mean time, because it's an EA play license and not under their control

@LTPenguin
Haven’t checked them all, but Kiwami, for example, is £7.99, whereas it’s been on sale for £4.79 several times.

There seem to be a lot of add-ons, skins and in-game currency packs making up those 500 games.

Another day, another PlayStation sale (with exactly the same stuff as the last sale) 🙄

I got ni no kuni wrath of the white witch remastered 2 months ago.brand new on ebay for 20$.amazing game.my favorite ps3 rpgs.and even better on my ps4 pro.word up son

Ni no kuni wrath of the white witch box art looks amazing so i had to buy a physical copie on ebay brand new.this game is a masterpiece.word is bond.word life.word to your mother.word up son

Meh, sale is ok, only noteworthy games are Yakuza like a dragon hero edition (PS4), ni no kuni remastered, and need for speed deluxe, might grab no no kuni as it's a good price for a long RPG

Anyone noticed that the % discounts don't tend to be as big as they used to be? Things that were often over 70% off are now 50% or 60% off. Will they ever drop that low again?

WRC9 on PS5 for me thank you 😁

@Ajfennell77 It's not too bad. Bought it day one and had a few good blasts on it. Some of the moves are quite nice.

@themightyant Ubisoft's xmas 2020 games AC:Valhalla

I wouldn't say that, I've only seen AC Valhalla gold go on sale at least twice so far and it's not even a decent discount!

Shame games like Blazing Chrome or Cyber Shadow are never on Sale.

I paid £15 for Huntdown recently and the best 16-Bit shooter I’ve played in decades!

I can hear the faint weeping of indie devs in the dark corner of the room.

Another sale I just picked up Assassin's Creed Valhalla & Immortals Fenyx Rising on Monday from the weekend sale, and a week or two before that I got Crash Bandicoot 4 & Cuphead. Add-on deals also Immortals Fenyx Rising DLC & Persona Strikers 5, Yakuza Like a Dragon Hero Edition PS4 & PS5, I already spotted these that I'll choose which to get on Friday. Void Bastards £12.49 well worth getting if your into Bioshock type of shooters, I definitely recommend it challenging too.

Baldurs gate 60% off, nice

@MrGawain Personally that has been my strategy for years. Publishers cash in on the impatience of gamers, often by overpricing their new releases. If you wait a while, easily done when you have a backlog of games to get through (most serious gamers do these days, it seems, myself included), you can snipe on on sale for half the original RRP or less. Or wait a few years and watch it get to maybe one fifth if the game was a good seller as used copies will flood the market and you can get a disc version that way.

Remember when everyone was super-excited for Godfall? It's slowly making it's way towards bargain bin prices now...

Doom Eternal plus dlc plus PS5 edition for £26. Take note Sony and Ghost of Tsushima 🤣

@themightyant this is the gold edition

https://psprices.com/region-gb/game/4230016/assassin-s-creed-valhalla-gold-ps4-and-ps5

In general the discount has been pretty low but it really hasn't changed in price that much

@danlk1ng Thanks for the info. Fortunately, on the PS5 I was able to select view product from the … and buy the game before EA Play Expiry.

@zekepliskin Godfall is great, however that comes with a few massive stipulations. Do you want great melee combat, sweet graphics and some amazing arenas to battle in with a lot of grinding? For me that's a yes and love it.

The story is weak (the lore is pretty fun though), you do the same stuff all the time, there's no real meta and it's there is an easy option which no one should ever pick, like every reviewer seems to have.

In fact that last point is why Souls is held in high regard, putting an easy option in it would garner a 5/10. Do not pick easy.

@themightyant it's almost a year, I brought the previous gold AC oddysesy for 50% in the same time too, the only reason it's marked up so high is because of the useless ps5 version it's bundled with 🙄🙄

Watchdogs legion was a good deal for the gold edition and it was around £40 when I brought it, it's just Valhalla that seems to be stubborn in this case!

I'm waiting for Two Point Hospital and CB It's About Time to go under $30 dollars.

Fallen Order here I come!

Sales are just what publishers do instead of lowering prices over time now.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey has been on sale 7 times in the past year. Each time it's on sale for roughly £16, compared to a normal price of £55. On Amazon, Odyssey is £18 all year round.

The actual cost of Odyssey is £16. They're just making it look like a good deal by pretending it's £55 for half the year.

Void Bastards is meant to be good, isn't it? Anyone in the know?

FWIW, I enjoyed Valley. It did some interesting things with movement (at points it felt like a first person Sonic game). Definitely worth the cost of a half pint of cheap lager if you don't mind short indies that can be a little rough around the edges at times.

@themightyant Yep,have noticed a similar situation regarding some indies,(& defs AAA),titles getting rotated in sales & certainly seem the benefit of the "invite" system over others. Up until the recent large Indies June sale had as examples:
From WayForward
Shantae Pirates Curse (last sale prior July 2017)
Shantae Half Genie Hero Ult. Ed. (last sale prior June 2018)
Shantae & the Seven Sirens,(no sales prior)
River City Girls (Out Sept. 2019,first sale Feb.2021)
Mighty Switch Force (Out Aug.2019,no sale 'til June sale)
Abylight's Cursed Castilla (last sale prior Sept.2018)
& Super Hydorah (last sale prior Sept. 2018)
Bought most of them excepting Mighty Switch Force,(& gotten RCG in Feb.),as both devs/publishers had said on twitter previously that PSN sales were largely out of their hands.
Castle Crashers Remastered finally got its first discount earlier this year,Blazing Chrome (Great Contra clone),had its only discount Dec.2020.
Still waiting on:
Xeno Crisis,(Smash TV style shmup),released Oct.2019 to get its first sale, Ghost 1.0 (only sale Oct.2019) & unfortunately doubt a G'n'G type game Battle Princess Madelyn will unlikely get a sale invite anytime soon either being the only product from it's dev.
Others like Chasm,the lovely Timespinner & Huntdown took a while getting sales too....just seems like a real patience game & hope they manage to overcome the numerous hurdles & cross fingers! It's a shame though that there's indies out there seemingly falling through the cracks & it's easy to dismiss as unsuccessful,yet they don't get the opportunities to get visibility /sales participation that certain other games do!
Baldurs Gate doesn't seem like a bad price,though not sure how the ps4 version fares against the lovely Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2?

Finally, some deals

I'm thinking about getting WRC 9, but I guess it's not worth it when WRC 10 is just around the corner. The rest of the games I'm interested in I either own, or have on Game Pass. Good time to be a gamer- no need to spend much money!

People please try Valley. It's only 3 dollars and it's a hidden gem.

@Jayslow been waiting to grab bastion on sale for a while, as I wasn't too sure of it before. Big mistake!

@MrGawain Reasonable point, but not a single one of them titles was ever a £70 title.
The £70 titles were reduced to £62 for a couple of weeks once, and have remained at £70 since.

Looks like there's some regional discrepancies too...learned Scott Pilgrim has gotten another U.S. only discount whilst EU/AU psn owners miss out!