Black Friday Deal: PS5 Slim Pre-Orders Discounted in the UK For Today Only

We are totally out of stock of all PS5 consoles in my store and across the UK in the other 116 stores and in warehouse.
Every single type of PS5 and bundle.
We shifted thousands of PS5 over the last few weeks that started with the COD bundles.
Also Argos UK as well.

Next stock is 29/11/23 all the new slim models which can be preorder right now.

Doesn’t work for the digital edition sadly, I just tried.

Sony will be boasting impressive numbers shortly. PS5 is everywhere at the moment and i have seen a lot of people walking out of shops today with one

@Rob_230
See my post above is absolutely crazy
Like release day of a console all over again.

I don’t think Sony expected this many to shift.
That is my store and 116 all over the UK have zero stock now until the slim on 29/11/23 and also the whole of Argos.
No stock for the rest of Black Friday weekend unfortunately.

@OldGamer999 I have been checking stores in my area USA (at least what says online) and PS5 stock certainly seems to be dwindling - even without discount (other than bundled Spiderman or Call of Duty game however much counts as).

@sd7232
We got fantastic discounts in the UK
and Black Friday is an American thing really 😂

@Swirly
We got plently of Xbox in stock especially series x
Sold a few series s not many though.
Being honest it is such a shame really for Xbox.
I did really enjoy their xbox360 era and the Xbox one to a point.
It’s like the brand hardly exists now and has like almost zero momentum or mass appeal.

@OldGamer999 theyre gamepass, gamepass, gamepass now. Subscriptions over consoles sadly. Its insane how few have been shifted in comparison to sony's machine.

The only worry now is if Sony go down the arrogance path we've seen before. Healthy competition benefits us all.

@Weebleman
Yeah and like gamepass hasn’t exactly set the world a light.

Like I said on pure Xbox and some said I had a point.

Be it consoles or game pass subscriptions, remember the millions of devices gamepass is on, sales are very low.
So whatever way you look at it the masses are not buying into the Xbox brand and their games.
As simple as that.

@OldGamer999 yeah, the folks that keep it running indefinitely are comparatively low compared to the majority of the games market. Most of the hardcore (hate that term) have stacked it on the cheap. We have a series x in my kids room. He basically plays minecraft so its cheaper just to buy outright. If theres a title released i want, i just dip in for a month, finish it and then let it expire. The whole subscription model (plus included as lets be honest, the premium tier is terrible) just does not feel sustainable.

I imagine thats the logic in snapping up every publisher under the sun. Gotta subscribe to play. Even then, id rather buy one of their games on disc than have to pay continuously to access my collection.

Anyone know how much the disc drive is to buy separately in the uk please?

@Dodoo Seen something about it going for £99

I still think the fat is the better value. £400 and a game.

The page for the slim digital at least lets us know how the horizontal stand will work - pure witchcraft it seems.

@OldGamer999 it honestly makes zero sense to me. There are at least some things the XSX does better than PS5. Generally better performance, quieter, better backwards compatibility (FPS boost), whereas Xbox one had almost nothing against PS4. I don't understand how the gap is bigger this gen than last gen

@OldGamer999 I think MS killed and saved themselves (simultaneously) with Game Pass. I have a PS5, a Switch, and a pretty beefy PC with Game Pass. I have zero need for an Xbox. Don't get me wrong, MS is still making money off me but not on an Xbox. I think MS might be the first to bow out of the console competition of the big 3. They don't really need an Xbox, neither do I.

@SlipperyFish See my comment.

It's interesting to see other countries get into Black Friday, which is an American thing to follow-up the Thanksgiving holiday.

@SlipperyFish
The series x to me has a better form factor and some nice system features.

I think the work during the PS4 days with exclusives and the COD and FIFA deals and the self destruction of Xbox one at the start just tore the momentum for Xbox and the brand to pieces.

Also remember at the start of this generation series x had zero exclusives day one on release.
A year later Halo Infinite arrived and it was not the game, next generation marvel it should have been.
This year the big three Redfall, Starfield and Forza didn’t really cut it with the best games at all as where Sony and Nintendo’s games do appeal to a wide audience and they both advertise their products well.

The masses game wise are not ready for game pass or cloud gaming as well.

Xbox now have lost all momentum and not many care about the brand and this where we are today.

Or you'd go to Very and get the older disc version for £379.99

@Swirly I'd actually be tempted to pick one up at £329.99.

@tselliot the vast majority of gamers, casual ones at least, don't have a beefy PC so Xbox still has it's place in the gaming market I think.
From my personal perspective I'm waiting to see what happens with Stalker 2 to decide whether to get a Series S. So maybe it's just their lack of first party titles. I've also heard third party devs prioritize PS5 at launch but I can't confirm that. Feels like the PS2 days where PS first party and third party support was so strong they destroyed competition despite being the weakest console

@SlipperyFish More silent the PS5 makes almost zero noise I only hear the disc spin sometimes. More FPS and somehow that isn't always the case that it runs better then the PS5. Atleast it has better value with gaming and they get more games fully on disc or do you still need to download stuff if you have the series X or other files for the games?

@Flaming_Kaiser PS5 makes almost zero when XSX makes actually zero. Also mine makes quite a bit of noise, loud fan and coil whine. It's been like that since new and I know I'm not alone as I've spoken to many others about it.

Yeah it's definitely not always performing better than the PS5 but I've heard devs prioritize PS5 and patch XSX later.

The Cyberpunk 2077 "complete" edition is the first I've seen where they've not bothered including DLC on disc, other than that they're the same

@SlipperyFish I guess im lucky mine is silent so silent I love it. And priority for the PS5 I heard that the PS5 is quite easy to develop for.

Also the Xbox X is the most boring looking console to look at for me personally so that doesn't count.

But with games is the content for the biggest part on the disc or do you need to download parts for the game depending on the version of the games in general?

Im really disappointed that they can release a broken unplayable from the disc anyway takes away the idea of the content being available from the disc.

@Flaming_Kaiser TBF I have the loudest version of ps5 and it's still not that bad.

And yeah I agree with you on that, it's just a big black box.

It's usually all on the disc. PS5 discs can actually hold more data than Xbox discs. Hence with BG3 is 2 discs PS5 and 3 on Xbox

@SlipperyFish I really don't understand gaming anymore they have UHD Bluray discs why not use the biggest size to put as much data on there. I really thing they are giving us the worst versions for a reason.

@Flaming_Kaiser size limit of a UHD Blu-ray is 100gb I believe. Just a limitation of discs. Games compress more on PS5 as well but I really don't know why Xbox requires more discs. As much as I love discs, they're just no good for games anymore. I hope we move on to some sort of cartridge like switch because they are superior