Playing video games can quickly become a very expensive hobby, and withthe games industry’s steady shift away from physical game stores, it is getting harder for players to come across a great game for next to nothing. The issue with buying digital games on consoles, is that that console’s company directly controls the prices for every digital game on the system. Newly released physical games can often be found for a discounted price after only a few months, whereas digital games can now hold their original release price for years.
Sales are the saving grace for many gamers, then, and the Xbox Games Store is fairly good at keeping regular sales ongoing for different publishers or genres. But rarely do these digital sales reach the bargain bin price cuts of physical game store sales.
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However, for the last week of May 2022, Xbox Games Store is having one such Super Saver Sale, with discounts onXboxgames ranging between 80-95% off. Predictably, the games that are over 90% off are all mid-budget games to begin with. But cutting these already lower prices means that some games are down to only 99 cents, such asAgony, the 2018 horror game set in hell.
The real gems of the Super Saver Sale, however, are around the 80-85% discount range and include some classics such asThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which is one of the most massive and best reviewed games of the last decade.The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, the often overlooked but equally exceptional predecessor toThe Witcher 3, is also a part of the sale. Buying both would easily provide hundreds of hours ofWitchercontent during the wait for updates onthe nextWitchergame currently in development.
Other great games that players may have overlooked before, and which are also a part of this Xbox sale includeStar Wars: Battlefront 2,Shenmue 1and2,Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered, andResident Evil Code: Veronica X, which are all 80% off. The classic skateboarding gameSkate 3is also included in the sale as its long-awaited sequel iscurrently still in development at EA.
Sales like these are a good thing for the games industry as they prompt players to try out games that they may never have been willing to risk spending full price on in case they didn’t like it. But if players do find themselves loving a game such asThe Witcher 3, then they will be much more likely to buy the nextWitchergame at launch.
