PS Store Essential Picks Sale Houses Many PS5, PS4 Game Deals

Play Ghostrunner.

I'll pick up f1 been waiting for a sale

Tempted with RE2 but I get properly anxious if I can't save easily, which has always put me off. I know you can sleep the console but you can never be 100% that it will come back to where you were, even though 9 times out of 10 it does.

A few decent deals in the VR sale at the moment but, as expected, almost all other deals are nothing of the kind. Or at least are only “deals” in relation to exorbitant digital pricing.

For the payers 🙄

Where is Returnal Sony?

@dasd2 That's been on sale quite a few times now.

@LiamCroft
Standard version has gone from £69.99 to £52.49 a couple of times. A deal sure, but not a good deal.

@PlayNation5 Not sure what you mean. Hardcore difficulty aside, the game autosaves pretty much constantly during a Standard or Assisted playthrough. Even if you haven't found a typewriter in a while chances are your game got autosaved minutes or seconds ago.

@lolwhatno I don't think it's available on disc anywhere. There is no physical release (except for the Switch version, apparently).

@Voltan ps5 is getting a physical version at least.

Do we know if the PS4 version gets a free upgrade?

@Rob_230 Yeah, it's a confirmed free upgrade. I'm gonna replay it when it drops for sure.

Clicking on the link reminds me just how much I hate the new online store.

Is it just me or do some of these prices seem higher than they were in the last sale?

@Voltan I’ve had Ghostrunner for a while now, but I’ve been waiting for the PS5 upgrade before starting my first playthrough. It’s this month isn’t it? At least I hope it is!

@The_Pixel_King It's on the 28th

When is the Ghostrunner PS5 version coming?

@AFCC September 28th

@Voltan mb the other user already asked but I didn't see the comments! Thanks <3

@Grimwood For many people(myself included), Digital games are vastly superior products.

People pay more money for superior products.

That’s why people buy £1000 TV’s that are barely noticeably better than £500 TV’s or £1000 phones that have a 1 year newer SoC(with 15% gains) than their current phone.

I personally play around 100 games a year across all formats, and I can’t imagine owning that many discs, switching them etc.

To me physical games are so vastly inferior that I don’t even care how much they cost, and will never check.

@dasd2 It had to go to sleep but couldn’t save its progress.

@dasd2 they have had a couple sales on it recently. It is a great game. I would definitely recommend it next time you see it on sale.

Civilization 6 platinum edition is now selling at a very decent price + base game + both major add-ons. Guess, this would be my choice this time.

@sanderson72

Prices often fluctuate both up and down in consecutive sales. It’s an annoyance. There should be a continual gradual reduction in price until 0.01p is reached.

@ChrisDeku

Physical is inferior to digital... because you have to switch discs? Well, I must say that is an interesting point of view. I haven't heard that one before, to be honest.

With physical you get a tangible product, something real, something more than a glorified rental. Resell value, trading with friends and family, no bandwidth-sapping downloads required, AND best of all, you don't have to worry if it will be available to play in 10, 15, or 20 years.

Not to mention the massive price difference. Sometimes digital can be cheaper though. Sometimes.

But uh... yeah... you do have to switch the discs.

@ChrisDeku
That’s a valid point people forget. I personally couldn’t imagine paying, sometimes, 5 times the price of physical just for the benefit of having them fill up hard drive space forever and not needing to get off my arse to swap a disc, but others have money to burn on such things and that’s just as valid as spending it on some other luxury product.

I think I'm motivated to get DMC5 Special Edition. My money from my wallet is about to BE GONE! I played DMC5 on PS4 but I need more power! After all passing it up would be foolishness Dante...foolishness.

@UnlimitedSevens I’ve never had a single player game be made unavailable to play, but I’ve had broken cartridges and discs before.

You also can just buy a digital game anytime you want, download it and play right away, without having to leave your house, or wait on delivery.

I guess the disc switchers are people with 5 games, rather than 500. I’m not sure you realise how much hassle having so many physical games would be. In a time where we value load time reductions of 30 seconds, people put no value on switching discs from a collection of 100+?

Switching on a console and having every game you might possibly want to play be 1 click away is a big deal, especially when you are an older person with 2 kids, and a small business to run.

Since physical Vs digital is a topic here. The main value for me with physical games is that as soon as I'm done they get stored as an ornament. I've done this for multiple generations. Looking at my shelves always brings back fond memories, especially when I have my older fiends visiting. Don't get the same vibe from my digital games. But I guess thats what great about games with physical and digital options. Oh and some of my friends spend far less annually on physical games (due to trading, etc) than I spend on PS Plus, Game pass, etc.

I recommend blasphemous to anyone that like 2D metroidvania with a little souls-like combat,also there's save point before boss so the game is more fair than most souls game

@ChrisDeku

For sure, for sure. It's all a personal value judgement - if that extra 20 seconds to switch a disc is worth a price hike and the diminished ownership rights, I say live your truth!

I am a physical collector. Like you (I'm assuming), I have less time for games, and money isn't as much of an issue anymore. My job consumes my life unfortunately. But even I, who places an extreme premium on my own time (responding to PushSquare comments notwithstanding) will take 20 seconds to switch a disc.

But if you aren't into that, knowing the many tradeoffs, I can understand and do not judge. Kids can be terrors on electronics/discs, and digital downloads do have a considerable convenience factor in that you do not have to actually go out and get them/order them.

For me, storage has been the bigger issue - I always waffle back and forth between displaying my games by the entertainment center but after a certain point it becomes garish. Several hundred games displayed by the TV doesn't really fit the decor. First world problems I guess. Seems to be the main issue with collecting from talking to other folks on here. Digital solves that. Just too many negatives (for me).

@CynicalGamer

Yeah I think we all need to admit to ourselves the truth. We collect physical to appease our inner magpies. And the nostalgia factor. I do get a sense of warm comfort looking at my collection - a lot of good memories.

Also, collecting is part of the game too - the challenge of finding that rare copy, etc... it's fun/rewarding in its way.

I am tempted to pick up Infamous First Light, is it worth playing? I quite enjoyed Second Son.

Is it 60 FPS as well by any chance?

@lolwhatno

They call these “sales”, but the prices keep going up on some of them

Maybe Biomutant....been eyeing it for a while.....but to be honest im knee deep in hades and pyschonauts. Plus tales next week

@UnlimitedSevens a solid majority of disc games on sale for the two current generation will be unplayable or highly inferior once the servers go down anyway. Many need always online connection, and almost all rely on day 1 patches to work properly/ acceptably/ at their best. Only a small minority get fully patched reprints.

Many late releases rely on the latest console firmware being in place too, and the servers to provide that to the console you've had in your loft for 20 years (with a broken /corrupted hard drive by then) certainly won't be online.

And that's not even to mention that a huge chunk of games are focussed on online multiplayer anyway, where long term disc archival is useless.

There's no HDD space saving with discs from PS4 onwards , and broadband speeds are good enough to the extent that downloads aren't an issue.

Ultimately, discs are just physical, tradable licenses with nice artwork, these days. (Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy my PS1 to PS4 disc collections, if only for future nostalgia.)

When I realised all this I decided to take the plunge and go full digital for PS5 onwards. Embrace our new overlords.

And then rely on online "archivists" when we fancy a game of Grand Theft Auto V in 2046 and the ol' PS4 and its servers are resigned to history.

Probably a good time to get Terraria; the Journey's End update is finally on its way.

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L Thanks to you and the other two who replied 😊 Is ammo fairly scarce as well?

Here in the US, digital games are almost always cheaper than physical. FF12 and Cyberpunk being the only exceptions I remember in recent history (hopefully you didn't miss your chance for a brand new copy of Cyberpunk with steelbook for $10).

Even if you can find a cheap physical copy, it's usually going to be used and the shipping costs will essentially undo the deal. It's possible to find a good deal on physical, it's just way less than often than digital.

Oh yeah, and the other huge benefit to digital, probably like 95% of games don't even have physical releases.

Sony used to have dirt cheap deals but the sales in the past year have not been as great as in the years before. Does anyone remember the $5 deals on AAA games back in the day or that 99 cent deal way way back? Now we are lucky to see games for $10, unless it is some Indie.

Remember this flash sale
https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.playstation.com/2014/04/18/ps-store-flash-sale-30-games-available-for-0-99-each/amp/

How about this one
https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.playstation.com/2017/01/20/deals-under-5-flash-sale-at-ps-store/amp/

Come Sony, bring these flash sales back

Assassins Creed Ezio Collection for £8 is insane!

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L Thanks 😊 just casual, then I’d probably replay it at a harder difficulty.

Blasphemous isn't bad at that price... I somehow thought that DMC 5 was cheaper than that at retail already, let alone in the sales.

@UnlimitedSevens I just miss the days of opening a game's case, and finding a cool booklet full of lore and character designs to leaf through. Those were the good ol days of ps1 (psx?) and ps2. Pretty sure by 3rd gen, they were almost gone- except for my special edition import of Demon's Souls!

Berserk isn't at its lowest price but it is on sale for the first time since Jan 2020. I finally bought it considering the physical edition costs the earth (£60>) and as a licensed title you never know when it might disappear from the digital storefront too.

If you have ever wanted it go and buy this title now because there is a chance it'll never be on sale again.

@Barryburton97
This is all true, but it doesn’t stop digital games being massively more expensive than a physical game. If we were given reasonable digital prices (meaning the ability to resell) I would go all digital too. As it is, despite having more than enough money to buy, at full digital price, the paltry number of games I have time to play, I still can’t justify just throwing the money down the drain for no good reason (20 seconds of time saving when changing discs isn’t a good reason for me)

@thefourfoldroot yes the ability to resell is the disc's trump card, I do accept that. We'll never have digital reselling, how would that even work? Maybe the ability to surrender your license for a partial refund? Can't see the platform holders going for it though.
Eventually I can see the gaming market move to a purely digital and subscription based model anyway. TV and music is very close to that already.

@Barryburton97

I get what you are saying - physical ain't physical anymore, due to day one patches and multi-player components that will get shut down.

Despite most games getting massive patches on day one, they are still playable without. More bugs than you can shake a stick at sure, but playable. Also, I'm not aware of any single player game that requires an online connection to play - maybe a few very isolated cases but definitely not the norm. These blu-rays will be playable long past their digital brethren, I'd bet you a silver nickel.

BUT its a zero-sum argument at the end of the day because even pristine blu-ray discs have a shelf life - even when perfectly cared for. Around 40 years I think under the best circumstances?

We just really need them to be archived like another commenter mentioned. They are a piece of history.

So... it's really up to preference. I want to feel like I own something, even if it is (partially) an illusion. Digital being superior to physical though... it's a stretch is what I'm saying but I get you really dig the convenience factor.