Please confirm you are not a robot by checking the box. Points & Subscription Cards Best Deal on Video Games Check out Special Offers and Promotions Sign up for Newsletters Sign up for Newsletters and receive Latest Release, Exclusive Offers, Promotions and more! Follow us on TwitterWe’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: the launch of a new console generation is the perfect time to check out the games and consoles you may have passed over during the preceding generation. This year’s Black Friday deals bear that logic out with some incredibly good deals on hardware, software, and accessories. Here are the best deals we found. Keep in mind that supplies will be limited and that many retailers are opening on Thanksgiving evening this year, so you may need to leave early to ensure availability. Several retailers have deals on 250GB PS3 systems bundled with two great games, The Last of Us and Batman: Arkham Origins. Fry’s has the best price ($187.77), but you can pick up the same bundle for $200 at GameStop, Hastings, Kmart, Toys R Us, Sam’s Club, Fred Meyer, or Walmart.
At Meijer, that $200 bundle comes with a $20 coupon for a future visit. If you don’t mind buying a used system and games, $179.99 at GameStop gets you a 40GB PS3 with Uncharted 2, Modern Warfare 2, Black Ops, NCAA 11, and Madden 09. You don’t have to wait for Friday for that deal, either; you can get it online right now. If you don’t care about the software or HD storage space and just want a new PS3 at the lowest price possible, Walmart is offering a basic 12GB system for $150. Best Buy has the best deal on Microsoft’s older system by a good margin. For $190, you can get a 250GB system with Tomb Raider, Batman: Arkham City, Halo 4, and Darksiders 2. I doubt stocks will last long at those prices, so you’ll have to get there early Thanksgiving evening. Other retailers have deals primarily on the redesigned 4GB system. If you just want the system and nothing else, Walmart has it for $100 and Kohl’s has it for $140. Other retailers are offering the 4GB system bundled with a Kinect, Kinect Sports, and Kinect Adventures—Target for $190 and Sam’s Club, Radio Shack, and Toys R Us for $200 (Toys R Us includes a copy of Halo 3 as well).
GameStop also has a good deal on refurbished, old-school Xbox 360s with 20GB hard drives and six games: Modern Warfare 3, Gears of War 3, Splinter Cell, Mass Effect 2, Homefront, and Halo Reach for $139.99. No need to wait on that offer, either; you can buy it now online. If you want a 20GB system without the games, you can get it at GameStop for just $100. If you’re a Skylanders fan, Toys R Us has the best deal on Nintendo’s new system. For $260, you can get a basic 8GB system and a bundled copy of Skylanders Swap Force, including three figures, the portal of power, and Nintendo Land. GameStop has the same bundle for the normal $300, but it will give you a $25 gift card with your purchase. If you’re not interested in Skylanders and need some extra controllers, Best Buy is bundling a 32GB system with New Super Mario Bros. U, New Super Luigi U, and a Mario-themed Wii Remote for $320. Meijer has the system and games without the controller for $280 and will throw in a $30 coupon for a future visit.
For the basic 3DS, Fred Meyer has the best price, offering the system bundled with Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon for only $130. Best Buy, Kmart, and Toys R Us offer the same bundle for a better-than-normal $150, while Kohl’s has the system and Paper Mario: Sticker Star for $150. If you’re in the market for the redesigned 2DS, Walmart will have it for $100, and Kmart is advertising a price of $120. If the larger 3DS XL is more your speed, Target has a great price of $150, while both GameStop and Meijer bundle the big system with Zelda: A Link Between Worlds for a decent price of $220. Head over to eBay’s Deals site starting at midnight on Friday morning to get a PlayStation Vita at a respectable $149. If you can’t wait, you can pick up a Wi-Fi/3G Vita at GameStop right now and get a bundled copy of The Walking Dead for $200. If you still somehow don’t have the original Wii, GameStop will sell you a used one for only $70 on Black Friday. For $10 extra, you can get a bundle with Wii Play, Raving Rabbids, Carnival Games, Just Dance, and Boom Blox.
Tons of retailers are offering great deals on games and figures for both Skylanders Swap Force and Disney Infinity. Walmart will have game-and-three-figure starter packs for both games at a significant savings of $38.96, while Sam’s Club members can get them for $37.98. At Toys R Us, a Skylanders Swap Force starter pack will run you only $37.49. Many other retailers have both starter packs for a lower-than-normal $50. You can also get good deals on individual figures or packs of figures the day after Thanksgiving: Other good deals on gaming accessories: We couldn’t possibly list all the low-priced games that various retailers are advertising for Black Friday this year, but here’s a selection of some of the best deals being offered on big-name titles: On top of that, Toys R Us has a “buy one, get one 40 percent off” deal on all of its games. Kohl’s is cutting its game prices by 30 percent on Black Friday, while Fred Meyer is slashing its game software by 20 percent.
Sell all the used consolesRemember when you could play video games while being offline? Pepperidge Farm remembers, and GameStop is hoping the public at large wants to relive their old experiences because there's a big Blast from the Past sale going on. Pre-owned Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo 3DS consoles are bundled with a ton of games and selling for decently discounted prices. You can pick up a Wii, for example, with both Super Mario Galaxy and Wii Sports for only $50. Not a bad deal all things considered. Also notable are two different three-console bundles GameStop is offering. First up is a bundle with PS4, Xbox One, and Wii U eighth-generation consoles for $680 (do the math, it's actually an okay price). But perhaps more impressive, discount-wise, is all three seventh-gen consoles: the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii for only $160. Nintendo Wii and Wii U This used-console sale promo from GameStop will run until Saturday, October 1. The deals are online only, unfortunately.