Hopefully you've all read Tom's excellent inaugural post on this years Humble Indie bundle (if not & you are a PC/Mac/Linux gamer then I'd urge you to check it out by clicking here) and it's motivated me to write something similar, but for the console gamers among you.
The trouble is, there isn't really an equivalent movement on the consoles - yes most of the games featured in the Humble Indie Bundle can be found on Xbox Live Arcade or PSN Store but they don't normally have bundle deals - besides, if I'm going to buy a game for my 360, it's normally of the boxed AAA variety and so my objective then becomes to buy it for as little as possible - and in this post, dear reader, I'm going to share some of my David Dickson-esq bargin hunter techniques with you...
- Get a QuidCo account - Quidco is a fab site that gives you cashback for purchasing goods at certain online and real world stores. The amount of cashback you receive varies from site to site but the important thing is that almost all of the online stores that sell console games will give you cashback via QuidCo - this is a very good thing indeed.
- Get a Gamestracker account - This site lets you set up a wish list of games that you like and will email you should the prices of one or more of the games on your list drop below a certain threshold (you get to pick what the threshold is). Gamestracker monitors the prices of all of the major online retailers and you can search for the prices of games even if you dont have account with them... but seriously, go make an account.
- Sign up for updates via Facebook or Twitter from these bargain hunter websites:
These sites are run by communities of gamers who submit the deals and bargains they find, quite often they'll list deals which only last a short time and so don't make it onto Gamestrackers list.Once you have all of the accounts set up, you'll never miss another cheap game again, and if you buy it via Quidco you get even more money off.
Result.
:)
