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Now that PS5 consoles are regularly available to buy, it’s an excellent time to start picking up games, accessories, and hardware for it. What’s even better is when you can find all of those things at a discounted price.

TL;DR – Best PS5 Deals Right Now

Below, you can find a variety of different sales on everything from games to SSDs and even information on where to buy a PS5 now. With Black Friday coming up in a few weeks as well, we’ll keep this updated with all of the new Black Friday PS5 deals as they appear. And, though not a sale but still exciting to know about, if you’re looking to buy Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 for PS5, we’ve even included links to that as well so you won’t miss out on the latest web-slinging action.

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• Early Black Friday Deal: Spider-Man 2 PS5 Bundle
• DualSense Controller Deal
• Best PS5 SSD Deals
• Best PS5 Video Game Deals (Physical)
• When Should I Buy a PS5?

Early Black Friday Deal: Get Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 In This PS5 Bundle

Black Friday deals have already starting popping up and this one is absolutely worth jumping on. Right now, at a variety of retailers, you can save on a Spider-Man 2 PS5 bundle which includes the brand-new game alongside the console and a DualSense wireless controller. It’ll set you back $499, which is 11% off its usual price of $559.99.

Purchase Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 for PS5

If you just want to get your hands on the game instead, have no fear, we’ve got you covered there as well. Below you can find links to purchase Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 at a variety of retailers.

Where to Buy Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

• Get it at Amazon – $69.99
• Get it at Best Buy – $69.99
• Get it at GameStop – $69.99
• Get it at Walmart – $69.99

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DualSense Controllers Are Also On Sale: Save Up to $25

In other Black Friday news, DualSense controllers have returned to their sale price of $49 (see here), a reasonable $20-$25 discount depending on which color variant you choose. This even includes the shiny new Cobalt Blue and Volcanic Red controllers, alongside other popular $75 picks like Galatic Purple and Grey Camo.

TeamGroup T-Force A440 Pro PS5 SSD for $58

Could your PS5 use more storage? Prices have been plummeting since Sony started letting people upgrade their SSDs. Right now you can get a TeamGroup T-Force A440 Pro 1TB for $58. It’s hard to beat the recent Prime Day we had, and this doesn’t match the best 1TB deal at $50 during that sale, but it’s pretty close. Now’s a great time, in general, to pick up a PS5-compatible SSD.

More PS5 SSD Deals:

• ADATA 2TB Premium SSD for $109.99
• Silicon Power 4TB XS70 for $223.97
• Silicon Power 2TB XS70 for $109.99
• Silicon Power 1TB XS70 for $69.99
• SAMSUNG 980 PRO 1TB SSD for $76.86
• XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade 1TB SSD for $64.99
• Corsair MP600 PRO LPX 2TB for $127.99

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Get 33% Off Elden Ring for PlayStation 5

As we near Black Friday, you’re going to see plenty of PlayStation games receive a discount at a variety of retailers. Until then, though, we’re finding some of the best deals available at the moment. One of our favorites is this deal on Elden Ring for PS5, which is available for $39.97, but you can find more great deals below.

More PS5 Video Game Deals:

• Deathloop Deluxe Edition (PS5) for $53.95
• Final Fantasy XVI (PS5) for $61.99
• Mortal Kombat 1 (PS5) for $55.99
• Marvel’s Midnight Suns Enhanced Edition (PS5) for $25.72
• Dying Light 2 Stay Human for $29.99
• Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion for $24.99
• Dead Island 2: HELL-A Edition for $55.69
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (PS5) for $29.99

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PlayStation Deals: Budget to Best

It doesn’t need to have a massive discount to be a good deal, so we thought it would be a great idea to pick out our absolute favorite PS5 and PlayStation offerings that would be relevant to buy no matter the time of year, or the sales going on. From the latest DualSense controllers, to the very best PS5 SSDs on the market, we’ve got it all right here.

More PS5 Budget to Best Picks

• Pulse 3D Wireless Headset for $99.00
• DualSense Charging Station for $29.96
• WD_BLACK 1TB P50 Game Drive SSD for $170.77
• PowerA Twin Charging Station DualSense for $19.99

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Get 15% Off the Razer Kaira Pro Gaming Headset

There’s no shortage of PS5-compatible headsets. If you’re constantly having to turn down the volume when you play, you might want to pick up one of these, then you can listen to your games as loud as you darn well please. And if you’d like to see even more options that are worth buying, check out our collection of the best gaming headsets.

More PS5 Gaming Headset Deals:

• SteelSeries Arctis 1 Wireless Gaming Headset for $96.86
• Astro A10 Gaming Headset Gen 2 for $49.04

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When Should I Buy a PS5?

Availability has significantly improved for PS5 consoles this year. This means you no longer need to wait for specific sale events like Black Friday to make your purchase, as retailers such as Amazon are likely to offer the same console bundles during various sales throughout the year. Therefore, if you are in need of a PS5, there’s no real reason to delay your purchase and you can take advantage of any available sale.

If you’re desperate to pick up a console before the likes of Spider-Man 2, go ahead and buy one as they’re now regularly available. However, it’s worth noting that during sales Black Friday, there may be new unique bundles and promotions for the PS5 that are not offered at any other time of the year, such as the God of War Ragnarok bundle for $499 that is now out of stock and not available at the time of writing.

With how expensive gaming is getting in 2023, we’re trying to save you as much money as possible on the games and other tech you actually want to buy. We’ve got great deal roundups available for all major platforms such as Switch and Xbox, and keep these updated daily with brand new offers. If you’re trying to keep costs down while maintaining your favorite hobby, stay tuned for more incredible discounts.

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Robert Anderson is a deals expert and Commerce Editor for IGN. You can follow him @robertliam21 on Twitter.

Odds are good you’ve seen Mario stomp a goomba or kick a koopa shell before, but you might not have seen him punch a giant lady with a parrot for hair right in the shins while she sips a cocktail and rides a floating banana. Super Mario RPG is easily one of the quirkiest adventures the mustachioed plumber has ever been on, rightly becoming a standout when Final Fantasy developer Square first released it nearly three decades ago. Its 2023 remake is an incredibly faithful recreation of that already awesome RPG, with a fresh coat of paint and some small but smart combat updates. Those changes can’t completely shake off 27 years of dust, but they do provide a fantastic way for fans like me to revisit this classic while also letting new folk better enjoy just how wild it is firsthand.

Bucking the usual setup, this entertaining story kicks off with Mario rushing to Bowser’s keep and immediately rescuing a kidnapped Princess Peach – but before they can return home happily ever after, a giant sword with a face crashes through the castle roof and sends all three of them flying. From there, Mario has to fight lots of living weapons up to no good and collect seven Star Pieces in order to save the Mushroom Kingdom. It’s not a long tale, taking me just about 12 hours to finish (though I’ve done so on SNES before), but the writing is so consistently funny and often off-the-wall that this essentially-unchanged script still had me frequently laughing out loud.

Super Mario RPG’s turn-based combat is extremely straightforward, pitting your party of five against all sorts of weird and creative enemies – from your standard Mario monsters like goombas to the skeletal corpse of a mastodon that has literally zero explanation. It fuses timing-based button prompts into your otherwise recognizable mix of basic attacks and resource-limited spells, satisfyingly giving you an extra boost for a well-timed A-press on offense and reducing damage (or even negating it entirely) on defense.

This system still rocks, and it’s easy to see why it influenced so many games that came after it – be that Mario’s own RPG outings in the Mario & Luigi and Paper Mario games, or more recent successors like the South Park RPGs or this year’s Sea of Stars. That said, it’s worth mentioning that while it’s always very fun, combat is also borderline comically fast a lot of the time, sending you into super-easy fights just as quickly as you’re likely to finish them, with the really interesting encounters reserved for a fairly wide array of inventive bosses. That includes a strange sort of dog monster that creates clones of your party members, as well as a living bow who cleverly disables buttons on your controller to prevent specific types of moves, shaking battles up nicely even if they still don’t usually pose much of a threat.

Combat is also definitely the place this remake has been altered most substantially, largely for the better. Button timings now give an even bigger bonus for a super-precise press, even adding a splash damage effect to your basic attacks that made me more thoughtful about how I distributed damage in standard encounters than I ever was in the original. Chaining together well-timed presses also fills up a gauge to use on powerful new Triple Moves, each of which comes with an awesome 3D cutscene. These updates don’t necessarily make the combat feel as modern or as deep as many of the games inspired by the original, but they do help breathe plenty of fresh life into a system that certainly benefits from it.

One part of that system that is still a ton of fun is its varied selection of weapons. Rather than only being a statistical increase, the weapons each of your party members use are tailored specifically to them, and their animations – and, as a result, attack timings – change whenever you find a new one. Mario could be kicking a koopa shell or smashing baddies with a hammer, while the totally lovable “tadpole” Mallow can go from swinging a stick to crashing together cymbals. Bowser (who rounds out your party alongside the mysterious Geno and Princess Peach herself) has probably the best weapon option: a glove that lets him pick up and hurl Mario as a projectile like Colossus tossing Wolverine.

I loved that each time I switched weapons I had to retrain my muscle memory, which is made easier here by a smart new prompt that guides your timing only until you nail it a few times (and then comes back if you start to slip). The rub of this extremely amusing weapon system, however, is that you don’t have much control over it. This is a very linear game, and each new weapon you find will almost always just be statistically better than the last, with no comparable alternatives to choose from. That’s true of your defensive items too, leaving the RPG part of Super Mario RPG a little bit thin as you don’t really customize your characters much past a single accessory slot for things like small stat boosts or status resistances.

Instead, the lifeblood of this campaign is its variety – it’s easy to enjoy some fairly simple combat and progression when you’re never in the same setting long enough to ever come near getting bored. You’ll jump from classic Mario sewers to a ghost-filled sunken pirate ship, from a minigame where you’re barrelling down a waterfall collecting coins to one where you’re running up a hill trying to save Princess Peach, from fighting a crazed bomb person to a living wedding cake. This world could so easily have crumbled into a hodgepodge of disparate ideas, especially when you occasionally remember that this is somehow still a Mario game, but instead they come together to make a strangely coherent and delightfully unique whole.

All of the things I mentioned and more have been lovingly recreated with true 3D graphics faithful to the original’s pre-rendered 3D art style, and the new look is… I dunno, it’s fine. I don’t mean to undersell what this remake has done, it really does look quite nice, especially in its brand-new and often super-cool cutscenes – but I can’t help but feel like some amount of the original’s personality has been lost in the translation here. Models and environments are updated almost one-to-one, leaving them looking shiny and new, but removing some of the charm the pre-rendered look naturally had. When I look at other Switch remakes, like Link’s Awakening or Live A Live, I end up wishing this one had found a bit of its own flavor inspired by that SNES look rather than just making the closest approximation it could manage.

One area that has been masterfully modernized, however, is the soundtrack. Super Mario RPG’s music has been burned into my brain since childhood, and while the rose-tinted glasses that come with that adoration initially had me thinking the updated versions were just okay, all it took was swapping between new and old (which you can conveniently do at will in the menu) for me to appreciate just how great these new tracks are. They are perfectly reverent while adding impressive layers of instrumentation and nuance to every song, capturing their spirits and all the little accents that make them so catchy while bringing something new to the table in the exact way I wished the graphics had.

And speaking of new, this isn’t just the adventure oldies like me might remember. The base campaign has remained relatively untouched in terms of content, but an entirely new post-game lets you explore for secrets you may have missed after the credits roll, while also including some impressive extra challenges to push your limits. Avoiding any specific spoilers, that includes extremely clever twists on some fights that require a deeper use of the combat system and its various mechanics in a way I appreciated. I sort of wish these encounters hadn’t been saved exclusively for an endgame grind, but I like that the added difficulty is there for those left hungry by the main story.

There’s also a comprehensive Monster List to fill out, with checkmarks and funny little quotes for every enemy you manage to successfully time Mallow’s Thought Peek ability on, giving me a completionist goal to chase even as combat got overly easy. However, this list exposes perhaps the most surprising issue with Super Mario RPG’s remake: about a third of the way through the campaign, the menus started suffering from serious framerate drops that made everything from shops to equipment juggling to that exhaustive Monster List a chore to navigate. I didn’t run into any technical issues besides this (apart from some similar lag in one specific map area), but it was bad enough that I actively disliked managing my party, checking my items, or revisiting all of those silly quotes I had collected, which is a bit of a bummer.

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth will be the longest Yakuza game to date, with the boss of developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio saying “if you go at it continuously, you’ll get sick”.

As reported by Japanese outlet Game Watch and translated by Automaton, RGG studio head Masayoshi Yokoyama said Infinite Wealth, essentially Yakuza 8, is a “monster class” video game.

“The games take a long time to clear, don’t they? [Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name] not so much, but Infinite Wealth is a monster-class game longer than anything we’ve made so far,” Yokoyama said.

“If you go at it continuously, you’ll get sick, and it won’t end with just one or two all-nighters. This means that a lot of people are going to hesitate to play the game or will end up having it wait on their shelves. I found the possibility of that kind of outcome sad, so I thought, we have to get everyone hyped up enough to play it.”

Yokoyama, as the boss of a studio known for its colourful statements, therefore said RGG had to create a “festival-like atmosphere” around Infinite Wealth so people are excited to play through it as quick as possible, “even at the cost of their health.”

He continued: “We have to get people to play the game in about a week or a month, even at the cost of their health, which is why it’s our duty as creators to generate enough to be excited about. I’ve thought this way for the past year or two. For a game like Infinite Wealth, we have to get a festival going on. It would feel kind of rude to just drop such a long game and be done with it.”

The Yakuza games, now titled Like a Dragon, are notoriously difficult for completionists looking to do everything, as ticking every box can take three or four times as long as doing just the main story and some side content.

Yakuza 5, for example, takes around 37 hours to complete the main story, 65 hours to do the side stories too, but 156 hours to reach 100% completion. Yakuza: Like a Dragon, which saw the series switch to its new turn-based role-playing game combat, balanced things a little with a 46-hour completion time for the main story, 68 hours for the side stories too, and 103 hours to do everything.

As Infinite Wealth continues the slower RPG gameplay it will likely fall more in line with Like a Dragon’s ratios, but given Yokoyama’s comments about it being even longer, fans could easily be in store for a main story of 50 hours or more and 160 hours to do everything, since it exceeds Yakuza 5 too.

This comes in contrast to RGG’s latest release, Like a Dragon Gaiden, which is a lower-priced spin-off to the series that connects the events of Yakuza 6 and Infinite Wealth from a different character’s perspective. It just takes 10 hours to finish this entry’s main story, 19 hours to add all the side content, and 31 hours to do everything.

Infinite Wealth launching on January 26, just around two months after Like a Dragon Gaiden launched on November 9, has some fans a little conflicted about Yokoyama’s comments on its length.

“I am feeling extremely cynical about this,” said potato_nugget1 on Reddit. “Gaiden’s story worked because of how short it was, it was focused on one story line instead of throwing in 50 different plot points that contradict each other, make no sense, or get forgotten about; which is exactly what happened in Yakuza 5, and now they’re saying this is even longer than 5. Best case scenario, this has a lot of filler.”

DuffelBagCollector agreed: “That’s not what I’m really into but okay. If the content is good, great. I always found Yakuza 5 over bloated with content of various degrees of quality.”

Plenty others can’t wait to get their hands on the lengthiest Yakuza game to date though. “Yakuza 5’s main problem is that it suffers from horrible pacing so you feel every minute of its 50 hour length,” said NotEvenEvan in response. “Yakuza: Like a Dragon is basically double the length but because it’s paced so much better it doesn’t feel as long as it is. If Infinite Wealth is more akin to Yakuza: Like a Dragon than Yakuza 5, then I will be happy.”

Infinite Wealth takes the series out of Japan for the first time, instead being set in Hawaii with players taking on dual protagonists in Ichiban Kasuga and Kiryu Kazuma.

In our preview of the game, IGN said: “[Our] time with Infinite Wealth was about as brief as Ichiban’s board shorts, but it left [us] to ponder the infinite possibilities for fun that might be hidden around its sizeable Hawaiian island expanse.”

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.

Lies of P update 1.3.0.0 is out now and makes some significant changes to gameplay.

Highlights include the addition of new costumes, which can be found in the equipment and bag menu, a new category to the costume menu so players can equip masks and accessories together, and significant balance changes.

The field difficulty has been decreased, with the attack speed of some monsters adjusted to make their attack more intuitive. Meanwhile, Rising Dodge is now a default ability so players have access to it from the start of the game.

Earlier this month, Lies of P publisher Neowiz teased the game’s first DLC and confirmed plans to release a sequel. Lies of P sold one million copies in less than a month after developer Round8 Studio’s well-received soulslike launched on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, PC via Steam, and Mac via the Mac App Store on September 18. It reimagines the classic fairy tale of Pinocchio in Bloodborne style gameplay.

IGN’s Lies of P review returned an 8/10: “Lies of P might not branch out particularly far from its soulslike inspiration, but it plays the part extremely well.” Lies of P has a “very positive” user review rating on Steam too.

If you’re currently playing through the game, be sure to check out IGN’s Lies of P walkthrough.

Lies of P Update 1.3.0.0 patch notes:

New Features and Content

New costumes have been added to the game.

After installing the latest update, the following items can be found in the ‘Equipment’ and ‘Bag’ menu.

• ‘Alchemist’s Hat’
• ‘Treasure Hunter’s Mask’
• ‘Treasure Hunter’s Hunting Apparel’
• ‘Illusory Emerald Glasses’

Added a new category to the Costume menu.

• Now players can equip the ‘Mask’ and ‘Accessory’ together in the Hair section in the costume menu.

Short Grey Hair’ has been added to the game.

• Available after reaching any of the game’s ending for the first time.
• Available at ‘Geppetto’s Tools’.

Add a new option to adjust the Subtitle’s size.

• Can be adjusted by [Settings -> Gameplay -> Subtitle size]

Balance and Content Improvements

Decreased Field Difficulty

• Adjusted the attack speed of some monsters to make their attack more intuitive.
• Increased the duration of stance breaks for some monsters.
• Adjusted the spawn locations of some monsters and traps to fit better with the flow of the game.

The P-Organ, ‘Rising Dodge’ has been changed to a default ability

• Retain Guard Regain upon Pulse Cell use’ has been added to the P-Organ system to replace ‘Rising Dodge’.

Combat Balance Adjustments

• Increased the damage of some weapons.
• Increased some weapons to trigger stance breaks to monsters more frequently.
• Now relatively lighter Blades will gain more ‘Guard Regain’, while heavier Blades gain less ‘Guard Regain’.
• Decreased the delay after an attack and the time to charge a ‘Charge Attack’ for some heavy handles.
• Now some heavier handles will have a faster attack speed depending on the assembled blade.
• Adjusted the ‘Destruction Damage’ inflicted to monsets by a ‘Perfect Guard’.
• The weapon ‘Puppet’s Saber Blade’ will now have increased stats after enhancing.
• Increased the movement distance while using the ‘Proof of Humanity’ weapon’s attack skill.
• Increased the damage reduction rate while guarding the weapon ‘Etiquette’ but reduced the fable’s charge amount for a set period of time when attacking.
• Enhanced the attack tracking mechanism after successfully performing the Fable Arts, ‘Guard Parry’.
• Increased the damage buff of ‘Bell of Provocation’ to the player.
• “The Attribute Status Ailments will now stack faster for the following Fable Arts:
  • ‘Thunderstrike’
  • ‘Flamestrike’
  • ‘Acid Slash'”
• Increased the damage of Fatal Attacks to better scale with the players stats.
• Increased the attack radius and tracking mechanism of the Legion Arm, ‘Aegis III – Counter Charge’.
• The pillars in the ‘Kill King’s Flame, Fuoco’s room will now only be destroyed by Fuoco’s Fury Attacks.

Added new itmes to the NPC ‘Polendina’s Shop.

• Two more Quartz can be purchased during the early stages of the game.
• After expanding the shop for the 1st time, one additional ‘Quartz’ can be purchased. (Yes, one more Quartz.)
• After expanding the shop for the 3rd time, two additional ‘Full Moonstone of the Covenant’ can be purchased.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the character to shoot into the sky while using the Legion Arm ‘Puppet String III – Attack Link’.
• Fixed a bug while continuously pressing the guard button during the Guard stance Legion Arm ‘Aegis’ would trigger Perfect Guards every time.
• Fixed a bug that allowed some weapons to perform Perfect Guards unintentionally.
• Fixed a bug that caused some Electric Blitz attacks to be unguardable even with Perfect Guards or Guard Parry.
• Fixed a bug in which the Guard Regain would not reset after performing a successful counter-attack with the weapon ‘Two Dragons Sword’s charge attack.
• Fixed a bug in which arrows fired from traps could not be guarded.
• Fixed a bug in which the ‘Monnphase Pocket Watch’ could be used during boss fights.
• Fixed a bug in which attacks from some monsters would not register correctly to the player character.
• Fixed a bug in which the P-Organ ability ‘Naturally recovers Durability of inactive weapons’ reduced the weapon’s durability while inactive during certain situations.
• Fixed a bug in which having the P-Organ ‘Lower Damage while Dodging’ activated and a specific Amulet equipped would trigger the player’s stamina regain earlier than intended.
• Fixed a bug in which the deceased NPC ‘Belle’ at the ‘Attacked Hotel Krat’.
• Fixed a bug in which players were able to abnormally approach certain areas of the map.
• Adjusted the Camera Rotation speed while using controllers to be not affected by the framerate.
• Specific for Asian Regions: PS4 Controller Settings Resetting Issue has now been fixed and can be save regardless of the PS4’s system settings.
• Updated some translations and typos for the following languages:
  • ‘English’
  • ‘Chinese’
  • ‘Japanese’
• Updated a typo in the in-game EULA.
• Improved game stability and bugs related to in-game UI.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.