EOFY 2024 continues with record lows on big PS5 titles, now including Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and more
If you've waited for big drops on some of the biggest recent games, now's the time to jump.
Australia is well in the grips of EOFY sales fever. While Amazon prefers to coyly describe its own corresponding sale as the Mid-Year Sale, it's still proving pretty decent for EOFY period gaming discounts.
Reality check, though: it's not been a brilliant EOFY so far. Things cost more in general in 2024, and PS5 games aren't receiving the steep discounts you'd normally expect at this time of year. There are exceptions, however, and four of the biggest games released during the last 12 months are all currently at record lows.
We wrote about Dragon's Dogma 2 and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth getting huge new discounts last week (and those still apply at AU$69 and AU$75.95 respectively) but now Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora have both also received record discounts. You can grab Star Wars Jedi: Survivor for AU$44 at the moment, while Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora can be had for AU$53. Both have recommended retail prices of AU$109.95.
Check out the list below for the best PS5 deals going during EOFY:
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (PlayStation 5) | AU$109.95 AU$44 (save AU$65.95)
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is probably the best singleplayer Star Wars game of the century so far (though it has Star Wars Outlaws breathing down its neck). In our Star Wars: Jedi Survivor review we gave the sequel 4.5 stars, writing that "Cal's new adventure is a mature, twisting narrative that establishes a new group of heroes and challenges what a modern Star Wars story can be."
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (PlayStation 5) | AU$109.95 AU$53 (save AU$56.95)
Frontiers of Pandora may not have been the most groundbreaking title from a gameplay perspective, but it's an absolute graphical powerhouse, with some of the lushest, most captivating open worlds available on PlayStation. In his review, Leon wrote that it's "a decent, if unspectacular take, on an alien Far Cry that uses its source material well to create an engaging world to explore."
Dragon's Dogma 2 Lenticular Edition for PS5 | AU$99 AU$69 at Amazon (save AU$30)
Capcom's long-awaited follow-up to the cult PS3-era RPG was very well received upon release back in March, even if it did feel like a fairly safe modernisation on the original. If you're looking for an open world fantasy RPG that rewards quick thinking, improvisation, and (most importantly) dragon climbing, Dragon's Dogma 2 is probably the best thing going this side of Baldur's Gate 3.
Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth (PlayStation 5) | AU$119.95 AU$75.95 (save AU$44)
Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth is a huge and gorgeous RPG of baffling size and scope. To put it more crudely: this AU$79 for around 100 hours of content means you're paying roughly 79 cents per hour. What a time to be alive. If you've yet to play the first in the trilogy (Rebirth is the second), that's currently going for AU$61.49.
While all of the above listed are at their lowest recorded price, of those we reckon the Dragon's Dogma 2 deal is probably the best. Why? Because normally it takes a while for a game to get so drastically discounted; to pick up one of the year's best RPGs at such a cheap price, only a couple of months after release, is a bargain.
Still, if you're after bang-for-your-buck, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is a good cheap option. It vastly improves on its predecessor, and will, of course, please anyone who can't get enough of the interminable space battle.
Looking for the best price on PS5 in Australia? Keep an eye on our guide to where to buy a PS5 in Australia.
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