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I'm (profanity) sick of the RRP posts. Well, I'm more sick of hearing about them than anything.
Series S. Best next gen console. 500 RRP. 479 at these three retailers. It's been lower before. It will be lower again. Hell, it was lower just a couple weeks ago. But it's below RRP so, I guess, I mean, if RRP constitutes a deal, especially when the RRP has in some cases gone up $50, then surely, $20 less than RRP is a deal too, no?
Legitimately though, pair the Series S with one of these bad boys https://www.amazon.com.au/SanDisk%C2%AE-Ultra-Shift-Flash-Dr… (or wait for a better deal, this is just a name brand, and 20 bucks at the present) and you've got a serious setup. PS5 has 825gb, 200 odd out the box is gone, and then of the 630ish left over, mine at least is missing another nearly 200 of "other" files, all of a sudden your 364gb available storage on the Series S ain't such a hinderance when it's closer to 500gb than the PS5. You can use the USB for storage of Xbox One, 360, and OG games and play them directly off there, while only Series S versions need to be on the internal drive to run. Games in my experience so far, load significantly faster off the USB on the Series, than the built in drive of Xbox One so in that respect, it's still a significant stepup in speed, even if not quite as good as the built in drive.
Step 2; get yourself over to https://gamr13.github.io/ and install some emulators. The PS2 emulator is a box of piss to install these days, no real setup beyond telling it where your files are, and picking what size (4:3/16:9) and resolution you want the thing to output at. Games will run happily and speedily off your little USB mentioned above, I myself have a 256gb at the present loaded up on the Series X with all the PS2 games I want, and a 64 in the bedroom on the S with around 25 top tier titles. For Ratchet and Clank's 20th anniversary, Sony recently announced they would put 5 of the old games on the PS+ Premium service, including the original trilogy finally…for countries other than Australia, as it's streaming only and we don't have it here. Meanwhile, me and the missus have run through Ratchet 1&2 a good couple times in full fat 4K on the Series X over the last year and a bit via this. Xbox is a better PlayStation than PlayStation at this point.
Step 3; go get a cheap sub to Game Pass, naturally. Further, don't sleep on sites like Eneba, who sell international codes for Xbox games. You don't need to make another account or swap regions or go through any bullshit like you do on PlayStation, you simply buy the code, and activate it. Some countries, like Argentina and Turkey, the cheapest of cheap, will need a VPN just once to activate the code, but it's only the once and you're done. There is a shitload of insanely cheap games on there, Saints Row 4 and Gat out of Hell is 1.44 for the two pack https://www.eneba.com/gb/xbox-saints-row-iv-re-elected-gat-o…, you can get 3 Assassin's Creed games (4, Unity, Syndicate) for 4.25 https://www.eneba.com/gb/xbox-assassins-creed-triple-pack-bl… (was under 3.50 the other day), EA's lil family 3 pack (NFS 2015, Unravel, PvZ GW2) is 1.72 https://www.eneba.com/gb/xbox-ea-family-bundle-xbox-live-key… and the list genuinely just keeps going on and on.
So in conclusion, while many of y'all are having a sook over whether or not RRP constitutes a deal, you're sleeping on what is objectively the best value deal in next (re: current) gen gaming. Series S is affordable (relative to other game consoles), it's in stock, small and compact and cute and just a lovely looking thing, it has an incredible lineup of backward compatible games which is only further bolstered by the genuine selling point that is it's emulation ability. Is this the best deal on the Series S? No. Is the Series S itself a great deal, hells yes it is, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
For under 500 bucks (including the 128gb USB), you have got yourself here just about the best Christmas present I as a gamer could imagine. Thank you for your time.
JB https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/xbox-series-s-512gb-conso…
Big W https://www.bigw.com.au/product/xbox-series-s-512gb-console/…
Amazon https://www.amazon.com.au/Microsoft-RRS-00021-Xbox-Series-Co…
Mod note: The following was added to the deal post 18 hours after submission. There is a reason why OzBargain does not allow deal posters to switch stores domains. Users did not vote for a different deal from a different store at a different price. Please post a new deal if a significantly different price was found from another store. Please see this associated deal from BIG W eBay for eBay Plus users. Non-eBay Plus users can purchase at $455.05 with code BRANDSOFF5.
Obviously Deva's deal is better which is why I've just left this without change up until now, but I just saw the lil BRANDSOFF5 deal and that it brings the Series S down to 455.05, which is pretty swell for no eBay Plus being required. Obvs delivery will bring it back up to around 460, but that's still nearly 20 bucks off the original deal here. 455 for the Series S is well worth it. Regardless of what sorts of deals you could (and easily at that, I've seen it) get on the second hand side, for the price, the Series S is well worth the investment. I will remove this on the 14th when the BRANDSOFF5 deal ends, assuming the other stores are still 479, and revert it to that.
A mod can likely fix this if seen, but it won't let me change the store from Amazon to Big W, so I'll just put the Big W link here https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/125370660843
You need a medal for the description