Top Tech: Best Black Friday gaming deals on PS5, Xbox and Meta Quest

TV writer Jake Hackney has recovered the champion deals connected games consoles including the PS5, Xbox Series S and Meta Quest 3 successful the Black Friday 2024 sales

We’ve officially entered Black Friday week, and the income are truly ramping up. While it whitethorn look similar the Black Friday amusive has already been astir for weeks, the yearly lawsuit falls connected Friday, November 29, with galore retailers slashing their prices done to Cyber Monday connected December 2.

We’ve already highlighted immoderate of our favourite deals from Sky, Virgin Media and O2, but arsenic much and much shoppers container themselves a Black Friday bargain, we’ve noticed a scope of games consoles among the astir sought-after products. With this successful mind, we’ve scoured the web to find the champion deals connected games consoles from PlayStation, Xbox and Meta.

Whether you’re successful the marketplace for the all-new PS5 Pro, Meta’s latest virtual world headset oregon an affordable Xbox upgrade, we’ve recovered immoderate large savings from the likes of Amazon, Currys and Argos – respective of which are the cheapest they’ve ever been. So if you’re looking for the champion spot to bargain a caller games console, work connected for the biggest and champion gaming deals this Black Friday.

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PlayStation

November saw the motorboat of Sony’s latest console, the PS5 Pro, and it’s presently reduced for Black Friday. The console is priced astatine £699.99 from PlayStation Direct, but gamers tin get it for £659 from EE oregon £689 from Amazon and Currys.

Sony says the PS5 Pro features the ‘most awesome visuals’ ever imaginable connected a PlayStation, with precocious ray tracing, ace crisp representation clarity for a 4K TV and enactment for 8K gaming, arsenic good arsenic framework complaint gameplay up to 120Hz and a whopping 2TB of storage. Tech writer Chris Harper astatine the Daily Express said the Pro ‘completely changed’ however his games look, but with its precocious terms point, it’s worthy considering if it’s the champion bargain for you.

He said: “Do you truly worth the champion imaginable looking games and framerates erstwhile you play your PS5? And bash you play connected it capable to marque the concern worthy it? If the reply is yes to some of these, I would see buying the PS5 Pro. If you’re a beauteous casual gamer who plays a fewer hours a week oregon month, permission it until immoderate bully deals travel around.”

For gamers looking for a much affordable upgrade, the PS5 Slim Disc edition is presently astatine its lowest-ever terms astatine Amazon and Very for £399.99 – down from £479.99 – portion Argos and Currys connection it for £399.99 and £400 respectively. Amazon has besides reduced the PS5 Slim Digital edition to £309, down from £389.99.

There are much savings to drawback up connected a raft of controllers and games, including the DualSense Wireless Controller for £39.99, EA Sports FC 25 for £41.99 and The Last Of Us Part II for £29.99.

Meta Quest

Meta’s ‘most powerful’ mixed world headset has been flying disconnected the shelves successful the Black Friday merchantability acknowledgment to its immense terms drop. Amazon has reduced the Meta Quest 3 512GB to £468.48, a discount of £151.51 from the accustomed £619.99.

This is the cheapest it’s ever been, according to terms tracker camelcamelcamel, but banal is moving debased astatine clip of writing. Luckily, respective different retailers person besides chopped their prices, including Very, Currys and Meta direct, which are offering it from £468.89 – little than £1 much than Amazon’s asking price.

Regardless of wherever you bargain from, you volition person a escaped transcript of the caller Batman: Arkham Shadow crippled and a three-month proceedings of Meta Quest+ – which includes 2 escaped games each period – astatine nary other cost. The Meta Quest 3 is touted arsenic delivering ‘next-level’ show with much than treble the graphic processing powerfulness of the Quest 2, arsenic good arsenic much immersive gameplay and visuals with a wider tract of imaginativeness and 4K+ Infinite Display, positive affluent 3D audio with enhanced dependable clarity.

In October, Meta released a much budget-friendly mentation of the headset, the Meta Quest 3S, which offers gameplay successful high-definition solution of 1832x1920 pixels per oculus and 128GB of retention compared to the 3’s 4K solution and 512GB. However, the 3S features the aforesaid processor and the aforesaid achromatic ammunition arsenic the 3, truthful it’s worthy considering if you’re enactment disconnected by the terms of the much costly model.

The 3S is presently sold retired astatine Amazon but is disposable from retailers including Very, Currys and Meta from £275.

Xbox

Gamers sitting successful the Xbox campy tin expect to wage little than their PlayStation counterparts erstwhile upgrading to a caller console. That’s due to the fact that the Xbox Series S is the astir affordable instrumentality successful our round-up, with the console present £50 disconnected successful Amazon and Argos’ Black Friday sale.

The Xbox Series S 512GB is discounted to £199.99 – down from £249.99 – portion EE stocks it for £199 with escaped delivery. Xbox says the Series S offers the ‘best worth successful gaming’, with ‘lightning-fast’ load times and gameplay up to 120 FPS, arsenic good arsenic the ‘Quick Resume’ feature, which lets you power seamlessly betwixt antithetic titles and instantly prime up from wherever you near off.

It besides offers 4K streaming connected apps, including Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video. However, it’s worthy noting the Series S is simply a disc-free console and is not compatible with an outer disc drive, truthful you won’t beryllium capable to play your aged Xbox games with this model.

For those that similar carnal games, the Xbox Series X does person a disc drive, but it comes astatine a price. This exemplary volition acceptable you backmost £459 astatine Amazon – wherever it’s reduced from £479.99 – oregon £459.99 astatine Argos.

While this isn’t an astonishing deal, the Series X is said to beryllium the ‘fastest [and] astir almighty Xbox ever’ and has 1TB storage, truthful you surely get a batch much for your money. For much Black Friday deals, we antecedently pulled unneurotic our favourite deals from Amazon, Sky, Ninja and Dyson here.