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[PS5, XSX] Battlefield 6 (Standard Edition) $79 Delivered / C&C / In-Store @ Target
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Sounds like that's one of your bigger achievements in life.
Keep it up!!
not really because i don't play it lol.
Price & store in the title please.
Thanks OP, as much as I want to play this on my PC, I just cant justify the price. PS it is.
Do you have PS+? Putting that into consideration is probably why they chose to put a premium on the PC editions.
I primarily play on PC because no ongoing online subscription, the PS+ costs just to play online is crazy these days.
While $6.5 a month to play online is not ideal, you do get the odd game you'd actually like to play (Allan wake 2 this month is one I'm actually interested in) and with games being cheaper on PS, plus the initial investment being much cheaper than a decent gaming PC it's hard to make the argument a PC is a more cost effective option.
$6.50 a month? Mate, that math ain’t it, PS+ is $12.95 monthly or about $8.50 if you go yearly. You might scrape $6.50 if you stacked sale cards, but let’s not pretend that’s standard.
And from the comments you’ve made on other PlayStation posts, it’s pretty clear where you sit. That’s fine, but let’s not act like it’s objective fact.
Historically, PC games have been cheaper for decades, this recent launch pricing is the odd one out, not the rule. Even now, Borderlands 4 is on sale for $95.96 on the PS5 store and $87.96 on Steam, about 8% cheaper on PC today. Steam runs constant, deeper sales and you actually keep and play what you buy without a sub.
A console might look cheaper upfront, but you’re comparing a single purpose toy to a multi use machine. A PC can be your gaming rig, emulator, work setup, media hub and upgrade path for years to come. And if you need a computer anyway (which most people do) your “cost effective” argument falls apart immediately. And this is coming from someone who owns both a PS5 and a PC. Consoles are fine for plug and play convenience, but calling them better value is like saying a scooter’s better than a car because you don’t have to fill it up.
@pineapplepears: Yeah unfortunately that math actually is it, you've just gotta buy your sub at one of the sales throughout the year, whether that's "days of play" or "black friday" or whatever, but yeah, it's not exactly rocket science and yeah, it would out to about $6.80~ a month for the essentials tier. Good point about stacking gift cards though, I forgot the digital gift cards are readily available through my Bupa rewards for 7% off face value, so that would bring it down under $6.40 a month lol.
I'll try to address the points you made here, firstly, I'm not overly interested if PC games have historically been cheaper or not, I'm interested in current times.
I also completely agree that PS store pricing for new games is generally pretty trash (so is steam though), that's why I bought the disc drive for my PS5 Pro, it pays for itself within 2 or 3 games and then it's still worth something to sell when I upgrade to ps6. Fundamentally the PS store (or xbox equivalent) being the sole distribution point for PlayStation is a terrible deal for consumers, there's just no reason for them to discount new games, you either buy it from them, or you don't simple. PC shouldn't suffer from this issue, it should be a more competitive marketplace, but it just isn't, not for new games anyway. Generally speaking you can buy the game from Steam, or maybe, if it's an epic, or EA game, you can buy it directly from them (For the same price so statistically no one actually does), that's it.
You may have a point that steam runs deeper sales on older games, but even that, I'm not overly convinced on, I bought the Metro collection for my PS5 for like $14.95 or something, it may have even been cheaper, for all 3 games on PS. On top of this, for the most part I'm just not that interested in cheap old games, usually there is something new and exciting that I'd rather play in the limited time I have to game. For instance GTA 6 will probably take up a good chunk of the time I spend gaming over the next 2 years.
I take your point about PCs being more multipurpose but honestly, the days of everyone having a "PC" in their house are over for people under 40. I'm 35 and of the friends I have that aren't into gaming, a few don't even have a computer at all and the ones that do have 5 year old laptops that do everything they need to do occasionally on a PC, so not exactly something they could just start playing games on.
At the end of the day it sounds like we are similar but have different preferences, I'm 35, I grew up PC gaming because A. having a pc back in the late 90s and 2000s was basically ubiquitous and B. back then a lower mid range GPU was like $100-150… these days a lower mid range gaming GPU is like $1000, I would know, some of my PC gaming mates convinced me to build a gaming PC a couple of years ago, so I did… AM5 7600X, 32GB DDR5 and a 4070, I paid nearly $1000 for the 4070 at the time, which is only 2 steps up from the base 4060 and I'm a savvy ozbargainer lol. For the most part though, whether that's due to cost or convinence, I'd still rather play on the PS5 Pro than the PC.
@Binchicken22: Appreciate the detailed reply, but a few things don’t really line up.
PS+ pricing
Those $6-ish PS+ deals you’re quoting are almost always for lapsed members, or for people upgrading tiers. They’re not the standard renewal cost. Sure, you can time a sale or stack Bupa gift cards, but that’s not the normal experience for most users. If the only way to make the math work is to catch flash sales and promo stacking, that’s not baseline value, that’s gymnastics.Game pricing
You already agreed Steam’s sales are stronger (even for older titles), but I literally gave you a new release example that proves the point. Borderlands 4 is $95.96 on PS5 right now and $87.96 on Steam which is about 8% cheaper today. So even “current times” don’t back the idea that console pricing is better.“People under 40 don’t have PCs”
I don’t think your “under-40s don’t own PCs” claim holds up broadly. In my circle and from what I see, almost everyone has a laptop or desktop in some form.. for work, study, streaming, gaming etc. So sure, mobile usage is up, but saying most under 40s don’t have a PC sounds like something you see in your bubble, not the whole picture.The nostalgia point
Saying “I grew up gaming on PC in the 2000s” doesn’t really prove anything as I did too. Back then, mainstream gaming was dominated by consoles with PC mostly being for RTS games. A $150 mid-range GPU from 2004 isn’t comparable to a mid range card now (which would be $650 not on sale for something like the 9060XT). The cost landscape changed, but so did capability, a modern gaming PC is also your work rig, streaming setup, and everything else.
And honestly, the part that closes the debate for me is the fact that you’re running a PS5 Pro with a disc drive. That setup costs well over a grand, right in the same range as a solid mid-range PC. Except your PS5 can’t do anything beyond gaming. You’ve basically paid PC money for half the function.
I get that you prefer consoles and there’s nothing wrong with that, and I too enjoy the convenience of couch gaming. But calling them better value while paying PC level prices for less capability doesn’t really line up.
You may be right on the "lapsed" pricing, I don't recall exactly now, I know you used to be able to stack like up to 5 years at the discounted pricing, they may have stopped that now I don't know. I actually went without ps+ for ages and only rejoined in the last days of play sale, I just wasn't playing online multiplayer games at the time.
Yeah you provided one game that is currently slightly cheaper 8%~ (it was $89 at target last week so essentially the same as steam), but this deal is also counter to that, I paid $75 for BF6 on release for ps5, that's 38% cheaper than you could get it on PC without jumping through a heap of hoops and trying to create an Indian steam account and pay in rupees like another poster suggested. To me that's a pretty significant release day price difference.
I guess we roll in different circles, but still, it's not quite as simple as you are suggesting. Yeah, you can make a gaming PC into a "do everything PC", but it can be a lot harder to make a "office PC" into a gaming PC, they often just aren't equipped with the space, slots, ram capacity, power supply etc etc. So it's not like someone can just go "oh I already have this PC, no need to buy a console, I'll just chuck a gfx card it in and be set"… it's not really that simple anymore, you really have to set out from the get go with the intention of building a "gaming PC".
If you are a free lancer or work for yourself, then yeah, your home PC/ "Gaming PC" could double as your "work PC" but if you work for a corp (like me and probably the majority of people) then they generally won't allow you to access everything unless it's on their own fully supervised hardware that IT lockdown (have to get a damn exemption just to use my USB port these days) so this PC I built really isn't for "work", it's just for stuffing around with and replying to ozbargain comments.
I guess my overall point is, if someone came to me and said "Man I haven't played games in years, what's my best bet of getting into a bit of gaming again?", I would 100% say go and buy a playstation (probably not the pro, the difference isn't worth it for the average person) for like $550 inc a high quality controller its really hard to beat as a gaming value proposition IMO.
I bought it through the EA app on PC and used a VPN to pay in Indian Rupee. Cost me $69AUD.
Saw it but too scared EA would ban my account.
Do they actually ban tho
@John Pork: few made a comment in here. I just can't afford, same with my steam account. Not worth the little savings.
You never risk buying with your own primary account. Usually you buy a separate Steam or EA (dunno how that works) account from a reseller, and you play on that account only.
If you lose that account you only lose that game.
@safrane: could you potentially buy it through an alt account and gift it to your main account? would that in anyway circumvent banning?
@whitepuma: I wouldn’t play with steam but EA I think fine. Steam Dosnt let you gift if there’s a major region price diff
Yeah but then id have to use the EA app….
Can't win everything these days. So pick your battles i would say :D
I tried wouldn’t accept my card
Vietnamese steam, decent price, and when steam sale is on, damn it is cheap
On your normal account? Or a new account with only BF6 on it?
My normal account.
That's actually not bad, is there any ongoing (profanity) around with this method? Like can I just use my normal EA account or do I need to create an "indian" one?
I used my normal one, worked just fine.
No messing around. Just VPN turned on for the purchase, turn off again and away you go.
Worked fine for me thx saved me 40 even if I have to use ea app
The tax brings it up to $80, how did you get around that?
PC gamers always get screwed over
What amazes me is, it's digital as well. This is disc and $30 cheaper!
Pc doesn't pay for online access though. If you play for three months on PC that already breaks even with the console copies.
Yeah but you can sell the disc if you don't like it. One of the joys of console gaming on a disc is 'pre-owned' games.
@safrane: yeah but one of the other benefits of PC is longevity. i.e. up until recently i was playing battlefield 4 on PC (i was feeling nostalgic). Even though i bought the game 10+ years ago on an older PC, i could boot it up and play it on my current PC.
If i wanted to do that same thing on console it would mean me having to dig around and setup my old xbox 360.
PC costs more (both hardware and sometimes games), i agree. But for longevity of your game library it stomps all over console.
yeah that doesnt matter though. pc and console versions have always been the same price at launch. nothing justifies the $30-$40 price increase for the PC version, its just price gouging by EA
i will say this wait till its 70 ot 80% on steam then its worth buying.
$69 if you sign up with Target $10 off newsletter.
Picked this up from JB last Friday, one annoying feature is they fill the game with bots if there are not enough players joining the game. 😕
Some gadgets you have to get to rank 47 til you unlock the Long-Range Launcher, list of weapons seem to be shorter than previous battlefields.
how come bots? i heard servers been flooded with players to even keep up.
because we're on an isolated island where most of us are still on shitty bandwidth supported by decades old copper tech with high latency.
Are we? I've had 100mbs+ for over 10 years now and i've lived in 2 different regional areas in that time. 100mbs is 20x faster than what you need for this game.
@gruffjaguar: download/upload speeds… has little to do with latency. i.e. copper: crap latency.. fiber: better latency.. but you;ve got distance as well.. OZ to rest of the world except NZ is far and wide..
FYI.
Network latency is the delay in time it takes for a data packet to travel from its source to its destination across a network. It is a measure of the time lag in network communication, with low latency indicating a fast, responsive connection and high latency indicating a slow one. Latency is typically measured in milliseconds and is affected by factors like distance, network congestion, and the hardware it travels through.
@ruztynail: Yeah ok, well the highest ping ive had in any location was under 30ms, closer to 20ms. Also this game has more than enough players such that you wont need to go into lobbies hosted in USA.
The vast majority of Australians live within a few hours of a major city and their internet connects are both fast enough and wide enough to play this game.
@gruffjaguar: yea i was just explaining why we get bots where else other countries have a higher chance of matching with human players.. as well as the population size.. our of the 700k that plays BF6. how many you think are located in oz..
@ruztynail: More than enough that you wont struggle to get a game with 64 people haha. Have you ever played at an online game with a server browser before? In the old days when a battlefield game launched there would be thousands of people online simultaneously. You could filter servers by location and see for yourself. And those titles were nowhere near as popular as this one seems to be.
As another commenter mentioned, the struggle has been getting into a server at all because they are so packed.
@gruffjaguar: yup i am aware of the servers by countries. i'm pretty old too unfortunately. but IMO there is a reason why the developers took away those settings and let the "algorithm" match players.. instead of the player choosing which server to join. for 1) matching experience, 2) you'd get far distant players trying to match up creating player ghosting, 3) minimise server locations.. you;d have to think that these companies have to host the games with servers.. and depending on the return.. it might not be worth while setting up a server in OZ.
Only bot lobbies I've had is if I'm playing well into the night on a weekday. Otherwise all lobbies are full from morning till 12 AM, which is majority usually call it.
I turned off crossplay so without PC and Xbox there are fewer players.
Why so anti social 😂
@mordinhoz: Just the advantage of PC players with keyboard & mouse are quicker and if you sit in front of a PC monitor you can see better than sitting further on a couch and playing on a TV.
With cross play I was getting 1/1 KD and when I turned it off to PS5 console I now got 2/1 KD.
Hopefully they will put an option of only console cross play between Xbox and PlayStation.
Even so it still happens, I have had a few games sit on like 30/64 players for a minute or two then it says populating with bots. I haven't had heaps of time to play but in the 6 or so hours that I have managed I have probably had 3 conquest games that were 50% bots and this was during what I would have thought were peak times.
Ffs I just wanna play on PC :/
What is the best deal for PC now?
Looking for pc price deal too
Just VPN to India or Indonisia and open EA app to purchase. When entering your card details select Australia as country (avoids local tax). Under $70 and will take you less than 5 mins. Those of you that want steam version. Just add the game to steam manually. I get that you don't get some of those steam features, but it's going to save you $40! If you buy on steam I think it still connects to EA app in background.
Temp email + newsletter sign up for an extra $10 off. The game is really good
Thank you!
JB Hi-Fi with perks $10 coupon = $69
Perks expired Monday. Unless you mean new sign up
That's exactly what I did.
I’m after the digital version for XSX. Do I basically have to pay for it on the MS Store or is there somewhere else I can get the digital version cheaper? Thanks ;)
Only way I'd know is to buy when on a GPU/EA Play sub and then use gift cards when on sale.
My mate did this (already had the gift cards) where final price worked out at $82
Any decent or half a$$ed way to get this kind of discount for pc edition? (no i don't want preorder bonuses or any digital perks crap)
g2a
Had a look yesterday and you can buy Steam accounts for $60~ but CD keys for $120 - may as well just buy it on Steam for $109 at that point.
Thanks, I've checked G2A and soem others (k4g / loaded, etc). I was after a digital key which had not much good price compared to these physical copies for consoles. They had accounts (steam / ea), which i have not used in past and do not know if have other strings attached that can cause headaches…
like a guy above said vpn and buy with indian rupee, $69 aud
Anyone with two braincells to rub together and six seconds of thought knows that physical media is always superior to digital media.
Literally people in this thread complaining that digital is $30 more expensive than physical.
You remind me of all the people that were praising MSFT for GamePass during the first stages of its lifecycle - when it was clear how it was inevitably going to play out
Microsoft absolutely deserved praise for their initial GamePass offering
Agreed, but wasn't sustainable and was clearly a loss leader. If everyone gives in to these attempts, there will be less and less healthy competition
@Nunya: Gamepass is healthy competition? Offering a cheaper alternative for new and old games to force pricing down. It is illogical to suggest that its non-existence would increase competition, especially as a loss leader… Which kind of makes no sense anyway since you can cancel the subscription any time. Subscribers don't buy into anything permanent.
"knows that physical media is always superior to digital media" - how many people do you know with a physical media movie collection? Whether we like it or not, physical media is dead in these times.
physical media is always superior to digital media.
I wouldn't say "always". I don't trust my kids for instance with physical switch games. Would rather just have them on the device.
Bro hahahah
This is part of the problem… (digital only or subscription $hit really are destroying the competitiveness of games). For this game I would prefer PC experience, otherwise will be 100% buying disc or physical copy for console.
You're paying more for digital and you can't sell it. There's no argument over which is better. This is coming from someone who only purchases digital as well.
PC switched to digital years ago and I don't miss physical media on PC at all. Time for consoles to move on with the times. Who wants to sit there for hours and hours installing a game off a slow disc drive?
It doesnt its pretty much a licence code to play it. Now it will download full game from internet.
@MrZ: Because then its not physical. I can sell my disk with code on it. You cant sell a digital code.
@Jklaro: That could change literally any time simply if publishers choose to put the activation code in a QR code sealed inside, with the physical disk for the installation only.
I'm sure the commercial reason for why this is not widespread is simply because they pay lower commission on disc - or they own their own disc distribution and retain better margin. It's certainly not because shareholders care about gamers let alone caring that games might want to resell the disc later…
Its been a while since i bought a guy on PC on/near release day, is PC always that expensive??
Been scouting random key websites but no luck
I suspect it's because Xbox/PS have online subscriptions on top.
But yes, PC is generally always more expensive.
Oh how times have changed. PCs require a bit more technical know-how than the relatively easy plug and play nature of consoles. The reward was comparatively cheaper games.
Nowadays, not so much.
Depends on the title. IIRC i picked up BF3 (or 4?) via code in box posted for something like half what it was on console.
Have bought keys online for some games like Cyberpunk. Was much cheaper.
5-6 hour campaign, what a shame. What happened to all the lengthy war games?
No residual money to be made in campaign, so sadly they won't put in the money/resources or teams to put effort into them :(
I don't think it's a problem, Battlefield has always been a MP game. Campaigns are always put in for the few % that don't play online. Lip service to those people!
Agree, COD and BF are basically online Multiplayer games and always have been. I can't believe either studio even bothers spending time and money on single player campaign.
They do it because 5% of people complain. It's kind of ridiculous if you ask me. It's a MP game, these games are shit with solo campaigns, if you want offline try RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3.
You can have a multiplayer game with a good campaign but it's rare. Titanfall 2 comes to mind.
surely this will drop on black Friday?
I have a sneaking suspicion this will be $29 by Christmas.
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Price in title mate