This year’s Prime Day Xbox deals could be the best mid-year opportunity to stock up on games and accessories
This summer’s Prime Day Xbox deals of 2022 are going to be the next major chance for everyone to pick up some great games and accessories for less.
And while the consoles themselves won’t necessarily be cut in price – but we might see some fun with the Series S console, so watch that space – there’s going to be a boatload of games with their prices cut, as well as all the accessories you could need from hard drives to headsets, to extra controllers, and even specialist like racing wheels. This will probably be your best bet for discounts away from the likes of Black Friday and Cyber Monday so it’ll pay to get prepared.
And that’s what we’re here to help with: ensuring you get into the groove early and start aligning your sights and expectations. But the first thing we need to advise you on is that while the dates for Prime Day 2022 have not yet been officially confirmed, we do know for sure that it will be in July sometime. This was confirmed in an Amazon investors call recently and confirms our suspicions – we harbored guesses that this particular Capitalist Bonanza would go back to its traditional spot of mid-July (maybe late July), and that is now the case. We don’t the exact two days yet, but it’ll be a 48-hour period on a Monday and Tuesday that will have deals galore.
Much like the buzz around the Prime Day PS5 deals, we do think Amazon will have a supply of Series X stock to drop over its sales event, but undoubtedly this is a great time to pick up any kind of Prime Day Xbox deal and save money – every year all the big retailers get involved and do their own versions, and – excellently for us – price match and try to beat each other’s discounts to attract us to their wares. In terms of early specifics, we reckon there might be some record lows on the Xbox Series S console, and maybe some bundles, while games are always worth a look, and some of the best headsets are always discounted too.
To keep track of all the best Prime Day Xbox deals both in the run-up to the event and during it itself, bookmark and pay close attention to this page of ours and we will be regularly updating it and keeping it full of details and deals. And remember, the Prime Day TV deals are going to be some of the best offerings this summer too, in case you need a TV upgrade for your Xbox setup.
Will there be Xbox Series X stock on Amazon Prime Day?
Now, it must be said that it is probably as ‘easy’ as it has ever been to find stock of the Xbox Series X nowadays despite that awful first year or so. I know the word ‘easy’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, but it’s undeniable that the flow of Xbox Series X stock has been much better in recent months. The Series S has long been easy to obtain too.
It’s also worth remembering that what Amazon did with some of its recent PS5 console restocks was to put them just behind a Prime membership. We should probably expect this to happen with highly-demanded items such as Xbox consoles too this year.
However, there’s never a bad time to check, so the below links will take you straight to Amazon’s and other retailers’ Xbox stock pages so you can check them instantly.
- USA Xbox Series X: Amazon | Microsoft | Walmart | Best Buy
- USA Xbox Series S: Amazon | Best Buy | Microsoft | Walmart
- UK Xbox Series X: Amazon | Very | Argos | Microsoft | Currys | John Lewis
- UK Xbox Series S: Amazon | Very | Currys | Microsoft | John Lewis
Amazon Prime Day Xbox deals – FAQs
When will Amazon Prime Day Xbox deals start?
Truthfully, we cannot say for certain yet. VBut we can have a good old guess. And the result of that guess is that this is probably going to be a mid-, maybe late-, July event. The dates currently being thrown around are July 18 and 19, and July 25 and 26. We’ll only know when Amazon breaks cover and announces it officially. Whichever set of dates though, know this: it will be a Monday and Tuesday and it’ll be a deal-packed 48-hour period.
Do I need to be a Prime member to access Prime Day Xbox deals?
In a way, yes. But also in a way, no. It’s become a bit more complicated than it used to be, but we still think that the best deals will indeed be behind a gate marked ‘For Amazon Prime Members Only’. The caveat to this is that there are always deals at Amazon that are up for grabs to everyone, and other retailers will still look to price match those Prime-only deals without erecting any gates to get them.
This latter point is great news more generally, as all the other retailers want a piece of the Prime Day Xbox deals pie, so definitely keep abreast of all the big players and make sure you shop around a bit and get a bird’s eye view of your options.
Returning to the very tip of this point though: it remains highly likely that the deepest price cuts and best offers will be kept for those who have a Prime membership. And even if you don’t want all the other benefits that a Prime Membership – access to the TV platform, TV, and free delivery, etc – you can always use the free trial just for this event!
What will Amazon Prime Day Xbox deals look like in 2022?
Even though last year was the first Prime Day to cover the new generation of Xbox consoles and everything that comes with that, it still revealed some great deals and ones that we can certainly look at to get an idea of what’s to come this year. We always find that looking back at the previous year’s deals is a good starting point of figuring out what might happen this year. But it’s absolutely a safe bet that we’ll see some big names in Xbox accessories and Xbox games have their prices slashed. It happens at each sales event, and having covered more than we’d like to remember, we know what to expect.
The Amazon Prime Day Xbox deals are a perfect time to bag an audio upgrade in the shape of a top headset. The most common thing we see is that those premium sets which do often seem as out of reach and a bit too expensive can change price brackets entirely and rocket down to the mid-tier levels of pricing. Some top contenders to look out for are the likes of the Razer Kaira Pro, Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 2, and SteelSeries Arctis 9X or 7X.
If you’ve been feeling the pinch storage-wise now that we’re deep into the Xbox Series’ consoles’ life, then the Prime Day Xbox deals are going to be worth a look for sure. We’re hoping that the official Seagate Expansion Card will see some action this Prime Day in particular – it’s probably the peak of the storage solutions, but its price has held stubbornly. However, other external solutions should have you well covered too. And in this respect, focus your eyes on external SSDs rather than HDDs. This is simply because, with Prime Day deals and price cuts, the usually-more-expensive SSDs come down to the price of the traditional HDDs – this means you can bag something like the excellent WD BLACK P50 or the robust-as-heck SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable for the price of WD My Passport (which are still great if you just need a cheap HDD, to be fair).
We can expect to see some action in the land of controllers too. While a lot (all?) are wired, there have been a bunch of quality third-party Xbox controllers that have come out – more so than on the other side of the console canyon. Expect the likes of some of our premium favourites like the Thrustmaster eSwap X Pro to come down in price, as well as already-aggressively-price pads like the Turtle Beach Recon controller to come into impulse purchase territory.
Subscription-wise, we have to look at Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate. Traditionally there have been solid discounts of around 30% on these subscriptions and we’d fully expect that to be the case again this year. And we’d definitely expect there to be instances where you can get Game Pass and a Series S console, bundled up together for a tasty discount too.
But some of the biggest bargains will come on Prime Day Xbox deals on the best Xbox Series X games, and the best Xbox One games. If you’ve wanted big games like Forza Horizon 5, Elden Ring, Hitman 3, or Halo Infinite for less, then this will surely be the time strike. Big, headline games like these always have price cuts, but you might also be able to pick up some bargains on Ubisoft games, as well as the older Gears games for example.
We hope to see something that resembles the above, but last year’s deals should show us the sort of patterns, price cuts, and product discounts to expect this year. Apply the same sort of cuts to some newer gear or games, and it starts to look really exciting.
What happened in last year’s Prime Day TV deals?
Every year more and more retailers get involved in the Prime Day Xbox deals so we can expect to see that again and the wide and varied results it brings. These were some of the best of last year’s deals, both at Amazon and at other retailers.
Last year’s best Prime Day Xbox deals in the USA
Last year’s best Prime Day Xbox deals in the UK
What will be the highlights of the Prime Day Xbox deals?
If you can think of some thing Xbox related, chances are that it will be discounted during the Prime Day Xbox deals. In terms of ‘software’, there are always a bunch of games going cheap, and definitely be on the look our for Game Pass deals and discounts too. However, it’s the hardware side of things which will definitely be the highlights, we think: headsets are always discounted and are some of the best deals, while external hard drives, controllers, and monitors and TVs are definitely worth keeping an eye on too.
If you want to continue your research and take it up a notch, check out the best TVs for Xbox Series X, best Xbox Series X monitors, and the top Xbox Series X wireless headsets that we’ve rounded up too.
Source: gamesradar.com
