Black Friday Gaming Deals

Every year I tell myself I am not going shopping on Black Friday! The crowds, long lines, and competing for parking spots is enough to drive me away. But somehow, I always find myself out and about on that day.

I guess sometimes there’s just nothing better to do the day after Thanksgiving. The only deals I actually wanted to get were the $29.99 games from Best Buy – Uncharted 3 and Batman Arkham City. Top notch games like this are never on sale for this cheap and this early on in their release! I actually had just bought Uncharted 3 a week ago at Target in order to beat over the holiday break (which I did) so I figured I would just buy it again from Best Buy and do the “swap/return” at Target. Since the games were both sold out online, I headed over to BB at 9am on Friday and surprisingly found a parking spot very quickly, no lines, and found both games still in stock! Success!

However, upon arriving at Best Buy, I was very bitter to see that the Fable 3/Halo Reach 250 GB Xbox 360 that I just bought a month ago was on sale for $199!! That’s $100 less than what I paid on Amazon! Sigh… and I just missed my 30 day return window by 2 days too! This definitely haunted me for the rest of the day, but at the same time, if I had waited this long to buy a new Xbox, I wouldn’t have enjoyed all the hours I put into Gears of War 3 this past month so I guess in the end it was well worth it.