The Bargain Thread

Jab · 2009-05-29T12:24:22.000Z

unbongwah:

Spotted on Techbargains: PSP from Dell for $120 shipped with coupon code NL34M60C1X3QWB. Coupon expires after 1000 uses.

Thank you, I’ve been waiting for a psp sale to get one, and getting a newer version is a plus. Now I just need to find a place to get the memory card cheap and I’m set.

Libra · 2009-05-29T12:37:51.000Z

Citiznmatt:

Yeah, I caved too. But dayum Gamersgate is slow. Just 29 hours to go at 85 kb/s

Yikes, that’s really slow. I’ve got Verizon FiOS and my max download speed is 2.33MB/sec, but I was only getting 1.1MB/sec from Gamersgate, while services like Steam and Impulse download at my maximum speed.

LesJarvis · 2009-05-29T12:37:57.000Z

unbongwah:

Spotted on Techbargains: PSP from Dell for $120 shipped with coupon code NL34M60C1X3QWB. Coupon expires after 1000 uses.

Gah, If only it was the 3000 model.

Libra · 2009-05-29T12:39:26.000Z

The Corporate Machine is priced at 99 cents this weekend in Impulse (down from $4.95). I looked it up on Metacritic and the reviews seemed pretty good so I snagged it. Can’t go wrong for a dollar, eh?

Fugitive · 2009-05-29T12:47:09.000Z

LesJarvis:

Gah, If only it was the 3000 model.

The 3000 model is still unhackable. If I were buying one, I’d consider it being the 2000 model a bonus.

MSUSteve · 2009-05-29T12:56:01.000Z

Isn’t there some problem with the 3000 model and screen blurring too?

LesJarvis · 2009-05-29T12:58:15.000Z

Hrmm. I don’t have a whole lot off interest in hacking it, but enough PSP games I want to play have piled up over the last few years that I’ve been thinking about getting one. I thought the 3000 was supposed to be better in terms of screen blurring, now worse. Is that really not the case?

unbongwah · 2009-05-29T13:03:04.000Z

Eurogamer PSP-3000 review

MSUSteve · 2009-05-29T13:10:30.000Z

This is what I was referencing:

This was Sony’s response:

Sony:

On some occasions, scan lines may appear on scenes where brightness changes drastically, due to the hardware features of the new LCD device on PSP-3000. Installed with this new LCD device, PSP-3000 offers more natural and vibrant colors on its screen, but the scan lines have come out to be more visible as a result of improving response time to alleviate the afterimages on PSP-3000. Since this is due to hardware specification, there are no plans for a system software update concerning this issue

JonRowe · 2009-05-29T13:11:02.000Z

I am going to wait till after E3 when info about the PSP Go is dropped.

LesJarvis · 2009-05-29T13:12:37.000Z

Ugh, great, now I’m back into analysis paralysis mode. I think I’ll just wait and see how the Go! turns out. Thanks for the info everybody.

MSUSteve · 2009-05-29T13:13:38.000Z

EBGames/Gamestop’s Weekend Deals.

Includes $10 off all versions of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

BobJustBob · 2009-05-29T15:19:44.000Z

Steam now has both Freedom Force games. Buy them together with the one-week discount, and the total cost is $6.74. Quite a deal.

Jab · 2009-05-29T15:28:56.000Z

So should I have waited for getting a PSP? I’ve never had one and have no interest in hacking it for now or is that still a good deal?

SirTomster · 2009-05-29T15:29:04.000Z

BobJustBob:

Steam now has both Freedom Force games. Buy them together with the one-week discount, and the total cost is $6.74. Quite a deal.

Normal price is $7.49 apparently for both. 10% off the normal bundle price or $0.75 off.

I was going to get it and add to my backlog due to the price. But I think I can wait until I actually play it and pay the extra $0.75 then.

Skorin · 2009-05-29T15:30:13.000Z

BobJustBob:

Steam now has both Freedom Force games. Buy them together with the one-week discount, and the total cost is $6.74. Quite a deal.

Holy shit, awesome. I lost my discs a long time ago.

MSUSteve · 2009-05-29T15:31:25.000Z

Could this signal that one of Ken Levine’s new projects is a new Freedom Force game?

No. Probably not.

BobJustBob · 2009-05-29T15:47:32.000Z

And Steam’s crazy with the weekend deals this week. UT3 for $10 (or you can play for free this weekend), Unreal pack for $20, Assassin’s Creed for $10, Splinter Cell for $5, Splinter Cell Double Agent for $5, Flock for $7.50, a bunch of crappy Popcap knockoffs for half off, and Trials 2 + Monster Trucks Nitro for $4.50.

kerzain · 2009-05-29T16:05:17.000Z

Is that what we’re calling all casual/puzzle games now days, Pop-Cap knockoffs? :(

Why, back in my day I remember when everything was a “Tetris clone”.

Douglas_on_QTT · 2009-05-29T17:46:56.000Z

Very tempted to pickup UT3 just for the joys of playing Morpheus over and over and over.