Black Friday: Spotlight on Xbox 360 deals

by Dustin Burg { Nov 25th 2008 at 10:15AM }

The deal mongers have been waiting all year and the shopping addicts have been frothing at the bit for over eleven months for this Friday's shopping mega event. That's right, this Friday is officially Black Friday 2008, the day retailers (traditionally) try to entice shoppers into their stores with low prices, loss leading items and deals galore.

The crew over at Joystiq posted a rather comprehensive Black Friday Holidaze 2008 shopping guide that lists nearly every gaming deal that's offered this Friday. But here at X3F, we know you just want Xbox 360 deals, so that's what we're offering. We've weeded through all the retailer ads and bring you our comprehensive list of all the Xbox 360 Black Friday deals listed by store. We even separated all the Xbox 360 hardware deals into one category for easy deal comparison. Hit the break for a textual overload of Black Friday savings.

Xbox 360 Console Deals

Best Buy
- Xbox 360 Pro Holiday Bundle - $299
w/FREE NBA 2K9 & Tony Hawk's Proving Ground
Blockbuster
- Xbox 360 Pro Holiday Bundle - $299
w/FREE Blue Dragon, wireless controller, 3 month Xbox Live & 4 free rentals
Circuit City
- Xbox 360 Pro Holiday Bundle - $299
w/FREE $30 gift card
- Xbox 360 Arcade Holiday Bundle - $199
w/FREE 20GB refurb HDD & wireless controller
GameStop
- Xbox 360 Arcade / Pro / Elite Bundle - $199 / $299 / $399
w/FREE Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (Door Buster)
Kmart
- Xbox 360 Arcade / Pro / Elite Bundle - $199 / $299 / $399
w/FREE 12-month Xbox Live subscription
Sears
- Xbox 360 Arcade / Pro / Elite Bundle - $199 / $299 / $399
w/FREE wireless controller
Target
- Xbox 360 Pro Holiday Bundle - $299
w/FREE $50 gift card
Walmart
- Xbox 360 Arcade Holiday Bundle - $199
w/FREE Guitar Hero III bundle (Door Buster)

Best Buy

Tom Clancy's EndWar - $37.99
$9.99: Saints Row & The Simpsons Game

Circuit City

Guitar Hero III bundle (Door Buster) - $54.99
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith bundle - $59.99
Wired Xplorer guitar controller - $9.99
$9.99: All-Pro Football 2K8, Conan, Dead Rising, NFL Tour & Tetris Evolution
$14.99: CoD3, Lost Planet, NFS: Carbon & Tiger Woods '08
$19.99: BioShock, The Orange Box, Hell's Highway & Soldier of Fortune

GameStop

Rock Band Volume 2 - $.99 w/ purchase of any Rock Band game or bundle
Xbox 360 power kit - $12.99
Guitar Hero wireless controller - $44.99
$14.99: Monster Jam & Assassin's Creed (used)
$19.99: Armored Core, Hell's Highway & GHIII (used)
$29.99: Bad Company, Dynasty Warriors 6, GH: Aerosmith (game) & GTAIV (used)
$39.99: CoD4, Spider-Man:WoS & Halo 3 (used)
$49.99: Left 4 Dead, NBA 2K8, SoulCalibur IV & Sid Meier's Civ

KB Toys

Buy 2 Get 1 Free - Entire video game selection $9.98-$39.98

Kmart Thanksgiving

Guitar Hero III bundle - $54.99

Kohls

30-50% off entire video game selection (Door Buster)

Sears

Guitar Hero III bundle (Door Buster) - $54.99

Target

Xbox Live 3 month subscription - $15
$20: Hell's Highway, Burnout Paradise & GH:III (game)
$30: Halo 3 & Dead Space
$39: Mercenaries 2, NBA 2K9 & NCAA '09
$49: CoD: WaW, GH: World Tour, Midnight Club: LA & SoulCalibur IV

Toys R Us

Brother's in Arms: Hell's Highway (Door Buster) - $17.99
Guitar Hero III bundle (Door Buster) - $49.99
Guitar Hero wired controller (Door Buster) - $10

Walmart

NFL Head Coach '09 - $10
$30: Madden '09, NCAA '09, Nascar '09 & NBA Live '09
$50: Guitar Hero 2-Pack (GHIII & GH:Aerosmith)

Tags: bargains, bf, black-friday, deals, xbox-360-deals

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

SourNotHardcore @ Nov 25th 2008 10:42AM

Damn thanks for this post! Really helpful. =)

ZEBRA NINER @ Nov 25th 2008 10:46AM

One quick note. If the Circuit City in your area is one that was listed to be closed, they will NOT offer these deals. Those stores were sold to a liquidation company, and are not honoring Circuit City advertising.

Maybe I missed it, but what does the red DB indicate?

D dogg @ Nov 25th 2008 10:58AM

I'll take a stab and say "door buster".

JD @ Nov 25th 2008 5:50PM

Futureshop in Canada has the 360 Arcade Bundle on sale for $169.99

CSuchanek @ Nov 25th 2008 10:55AM

I think it means Door Buster. The deal is probably good for a limited time.

Dave @ Nov 25th 2008 10:56AM

DB means "Door Buster" which means you'll have to be there early, and it won't be honored all weekend.

Amancio @ Nov 25th 2008 11:16AM

Kohls doesn't sell Xbox games... Or any console games for that matter...

http://www.kohls.com/kohlsStore/electronicsgames/games.jsp

Jesse James @ Nov 25th 2008 12:26PM

I found this -

http://www.kohls.com/upgrade/webstore/product_page.jsp

I just typed in Xbox 360 in the search.

Ryan @ Nov 25th 2008 12:31PM

I've seen Wii and DS games in the store before... but never games for any other system.

Jesse James @ Nov 25th 2008 12:33PM

Sorry about that... The link it posted was for a tshirt, not sure how that got there -

What it was supposed to hyperlink was this -

http://tinyurl.com/5swbjs

hope that one works, its a link to 3 pages of games.

ZeroNow @ Nov 25th 2008 11:10AM

Aww I wish we had black friday in the UK. You americans are lucky. You're normal prices are cheaper than ours too!

cranium @ Nov 25th 2008 11:55AM

see, it's not our fault we're so materialistic. we just can't pass up a great deal. we're thrifty!

Deezul @ Nov 25th 2008 11:33AM

Also, Wal-Mart is doing price matching for every store, including doorbusters. So just take your ads to Wal-mart, as long as it's not one of those bundles. For just games you should be good.

limestallc @ Nov 25th 2008 12:02PM

The deal at Blockbuster also includes copies of lego indiana jones and kung fu panda, also its being honored already if you want to beat the traffic on friday.

pjsingh @ Nov 25th 2008 3:24PM

all of them do. its called the xbox 360 2008 holiday package
Arcade's are packed with Sega superstar tennis
Pro and Elite's are packed with kung fu and lego indiana jones

Mike @ Nov 25th 2008 1:26PM

You're missing a ton of Game Crazy deals. RSV2 for $9.99

Sscooby2u @ Nov 25th 2008 6:44PM

I was going to add this as well. Seems like this site always has the GameStop deals and never GameCrazy. Does GS own a piece of this site or what?

As well as a Rainbow Six Vegas 2 brand new for $9.99 GC also has Assasins Creed new for $9.99. I know where I'll be on Friday!

Sscooby2u @ Nov 25th 2008 6:49PM

Oh and Soul Caliber IV for $39.99...I'll take the $10 savings over GameStops price and buy me an xtra game TYVM.

pjsingh @ Nov 25th 2008 3:25PM

i mean all xbox's pro and up

Tegolin @ Nov 25th 2008 3:41PM

The 9.99 guitar controller isn't 3rd party.
Its a Red Octane X-plorer.

Tegolin @ Nov 25th 2008 3:44PM

Link for proof:
http://bfads.net/Guitar-Hero-XPlorer-Controller-for-Xbox-360-at-Circuit-City

Dustin Burg @ Nov 25th 2008 4:12PM

Thanks!

AnthonyGalindoX @ Nov 25th 2008 5:14PM

$30 Dead Space!

JB @ Nov 25th 2008 7:40PM

Best Buy Also has Farcry 2 for $37.99 27-29th.

http://bestbuy.shoplocal.com/bestbuy/default.aspx?action=entryflash&

HBNYC @ Nov 26th 2008 1:36PM

Called 3 Kmarts and they know nothing of the 1 free yr. Live subscription with the purchase of a XBOX ELITE.

Can someone confirm this?

Dustin Burg @ Nov 26th 2008 1:41PM

http://tinyurl.com/63rqq3

crossover523 @ Nov 27th 2008 11:13PM

I don't see that in the actual ad... Is there any full page views with that picture? I don't think that small of a picture would be proof enough for them

crossover523 @ Nov 28th 2008 12:15AM

Scratch that, I found a full ad pdf. The asterisk on the screenshot though appears as if the deal is only on the 60 gb pro. :( I am only buying replacement xbox and was gonna just get arcade

saturn1337sts @ Nov 26th 2008 1:58PM

i wanted to point out that i bought the orange box for 360 for $19.99 at best buy this past sunday the 23rd. so it's not much of a black friday thing for that price at circuit city.

saturn1337sts @ Nov 26th 2008 2:13PM

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8533848&st=orange+box&lp=2&type=product&cp=1&id=1186008219097

kbrad @ Nov 26th 2008 3:31PM

Apparently the Blockbuster Xbox 360 is the 20 GB model instead of the 60 GB. Is this still worth the time?

johnny D @ Nov 28th 2008 10:44AM

overall the Target one is the best Deal if you get the Pro Bundle because of the $50 gift card which you can buy a game and they're selling 3 months for $15bucks each also the guitar hero bundle is pretty good only 55bucks Door buster are stupid rainbow six is only worth like 30bucks used. So id say either Walmart or Target I just got mine from Target pro bundle/game/3month