PlayStation’s Black Friday sale is already live on PlayStation Store, and Sony has published the whole schedule. Discounts up to 75% off opened on November 4 at 12:00 a.m. PST/GMT/JST and run through November 30 at 11:59 p.m. PST/GMT/JST. New titles join on November 16, and some discounts end early on November 20.
The dates come from a PlayStation Blog post published on November 3 by Zack Garvey, a Promotions Proposal Manager at Sony Interactive. The sale covers thousands of PS5, PS4 and PS VR2 games, expansions and DLC. PS VR2 is Sony’s PlayStation VR2 headset. The post’s list of titles is a preview only: Sony says the real percentages appear on the dedicated Black Friday promotion page on PlayStation Store once the sale is running, and that promotions and discount percentages can differ by region.
PST, GMT and JST are Pacific Standard Time, Greenwich Mean Time and Japan Standard Time. Sony publishes the timing in those three zones, so each one starts the sale at its own 12:00 a.m. For a player in the United States that start lands at 3:00 a.m. ET on November 4, and the November 30 finish at 11:59 p.m. PST lands at 2:59 a.m. ET on December 1.
| What happens | When (PST/GMT/JST) |
|---|---|
| Sale begins | November 4, 12:00 a.m. |
| New titles join | November 16, 12:00 a.m. |
| Some discounts end | November 20, 11:59 p.m. |
| Promotion ends | November 30, 11:59 p.m. |
The preview list is long and it holds the usual headliners, such as 007 First Light – Deluxe Edition, Age of Wonders 4, Anno 117: Pax Romana, ASTRO BOT, Balatro, Control Ultimate Edition, HITMAN World of Assassination, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI Platinum Edition and The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. Insomniac Games confirmed the Wolverine entry on November 6 in an official post, telling players to get the Digital Deluxe Edition of Marvel’s Wolverine during the PlayStation Black Friday event.
The fine print is where the timing traps sit. Some discounts end on November 20, ten days before the promotion finishes, and Sony says some deals get swapped for new offers while the sale runs. A title listed in week one can be cheaper in week one and out of the sale by week three.
The unusual part of this year’s sale is the length of the window rather than the size of the headline discount. It opens three weeks before Black Friday, refreshes halfway through, and does not finish until December. That gives players time to wait for the November 16 wave, but it also means a price seen on November 5 is not guaranteed on November 25. The store page, not a screenshot from social media, is the only place the real number lives.
If you are still working out whether a subscription is the better route this month, our PS Plus tier guide sets out what Essential, Extra and Premium give you. Saturday’s Deal Radar tracks the Steam, GOG and Epic side of the same discount season.
Edited by Kerwin Stewart, Editor-in-Chief · How we report
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