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Deal Alert! This PS5 Slim bundle is offering excellent value (Image credit: Sony) PS5 Slim | NBA 2K25 | $499.99 $449.99 at Best Buy
Save $50 – You’re actually saving far more than $50 here, as this is a $69.99 game by itself. You’re getting NBA 2K25 for free with a PS5 Slim console and saving $50 on the $499.99 MSRP of the device itself. Bundles like this are particularly rare. Don’t want to spend $700 on a PS5 Pro pre-order? I’m in the same boat – which is why I’d much rather save $50 on the PS5 Slim and still pick up a free game with it. The last time I saw a PS5 bundle offering this kind of value was with Spider-Man 2, and that offer only lasted a few days over the course of last year’s holiday sales. This kind of discount doesn’t appear too often.
When does Prime Day start? It’s obvious there’s a lot going on right now, but it’s worth remembering that Prime Day hasn’t even properly started yet. Amazon will drop its full wave of deals tonight at midnight, giving us a full 48 hours in the official sale. That’s not to say there aren’t some steals already on the shelves, but if you’re waiting for the full selection we haven’t got long to go.
Top Tip #2: Check for coupons Amazon likes to be sneaky – it sometimes adds an extra coupon onto its listing page to save you even more cash while displaying a slightly higher cost. It’s easy to miss these – they exist as small checkboxes that must be ticked before proceeding to checkout. However, in my experience, products with these coupons attached often do so to reach brand new record price lows. Why Amazon does isn’t exactly clear. I do have a theory, though. Retailers like to price match each other down to the penny, so it follows that some must use Amazon’s own pricing data to set their own costs and even undercut by a certain amount. I rarely see other retailers like Best Buy and Walmart matching Amazon’s prices where these coupons are in play – they could be a measure to ward off other stores’ own bots to ensure the online retail giant stays competitive. That’s pure conjecture, my own musings – but definitely worth keeping an eye out for.
Should you buy a Meta Quest 3 this Prime Day? Here’s Duncan’s advice (Image credit: Future / Duncan Robertson) The Meta Quest 3 is making waves on the shelves right now, in the wake of the announcement of a 128GB Meta Quest 3S model. The cheaper device will take over from the base Quest 3 device when it hits the shelves on October 15, but retailers are keen to shift stock of the old model. That means we’re seeing a whole wad of discounts on the shelves right now, so I grabbed our VR specialist Duncan Robertson to see whether it really is worth jumping on the hypetrain. Here’s what he had to say:
The best Prime Day deals for gamers live: PS5, Switch, Xbox, and PC savings as they happen
