If you or your kids are hooked on Skylanders, Black Friday is your chance to stock up on figures. If you want the tablet-style 2DS instead, Target will sell you one with Yoshi's New Island for a ridiculously low $99. If they're sold out, Best Buy has the Mario Party: Island Tour bundle for $174.99, while GameStop, Hastings, and Toys R Us have it for $179.99. 2 for $149.96-and Kohl's-an XL with Mario Party: Island Tour will run you $149.99 there. On the 3DS side, the best deals are at Wal-mart and Sam's Club-both have a 3DS XL with New Super Mario Bros. If you're willing to get the lower-end 8GB system, Toys R Us will throw in a copy of Skylanders Swap Force for the regular price of $199. for Wii U, Nintendo Land, and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for $359.97. At Best Buy, you can get a software-packed bundle with Super Mario 3D World, Super Smash Bros. Your best bet is probably Fred Meyer, which has a 32GB system with Super Mario 3D World and Nintendo Land for $249.99, or Meijer, which is offering the same bundle for $279.99 with a $30 gift card. It's surprisingly hard to find a good deal on the Wii U this Black Friday. We couldn't find a single Black Friday deal for the PlayStation Vita.
Gamestop is also trying to get rid of some of its old PS3 stock, offering a 500GB system with Lego Batman 3 and Sly Cooper Collection for $269.99. If you go to, you can get The Last of Us, GTA V, and your choice of two games with the console if you bump the price up to $449.99.
Meijer is also offering a $50 gift card with a PS4 bundle purchase, while Wal-mart is offering a $50 gift card in lieu of any free games. At Toys R Us and Meijer, you can instead choose LittleBigPlanet 3 and Lego Batman 3 as your free games. Best Buy, Dell, GameStop, Toys R Us, and Wal-mart are all bundling The Last of Us: Remastered and Grand Theft Auto 5 with PS4 purchases on Black Friday. While retailers aren't coming down from the PS4's $399.99 asking price this Black Friday, you can get some free games if you're willing to fight the crowds (or crowded servers). On the higher end, a 500GB Xbox 360 system with Call of Duty: Ghosts and Black Ops 2 is $199.99 at GameStop (through November 29) and the Microsoft Store. The Microsoft Store is selling the 4GB system for $129 with a free game, and Meijer offers a $50 gift card with a $129 system. If you're in the market for a nine-year-old console, Wal-mart has a 4GB Xbox 360 for just $99, while eBay will throw in a copy of Peggle for the same price. also has a good bundle deal that includes Halo: The Master Chief Collection, a year of Xbox Live Gold, and a free game of your choice for $379.99 all day Thursday. At Best Buy, the $429.99 Kinect + Assassin's: Creed Unity bundle comes with a free controller on Black Friday, while Hastings will give you a $100 gift card with your Kinect bundle.
29), while Target and Meijer are giving a $50 gift card with an AC: Unity bundle purchase (Nov. Zombies: Garden Warfare, and Titanfall with your console (Nov. Many retailers are adding additional benefits on top of that reduced price: at Microsoft Stores you can choose a free game from among Forza Motorsport 5, Plants vs. Those prices are down from the already reduced $349.99/$449.99 prices that apply for the rest of the holiday season. If you're willing to go up to $429.99, you can get a system with a bundled Kinect (Gamestop, Amazon, Target, Toys R Us, Wal-mart, Hastings) or a 1TB system bundled with Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Gamestop, Amazon, Toys R Us, Wal-mart). The going rate for an Xbox One on Black Friday seems to be $329.99 for a Kinect-free system bundled with Assassin's Creed: Unity (Best Buy, Gamestop, Amazon, Toys R Us, Wal-mart, Kohl's, Dell, Fred Meyer, Hastings). Also note that some deals are only available in-store and not through the website: check with the retailer. In every case, quantities will probably be limited, so be sure to get to the store (or Web browser) early if you want to catch the best deal, and be sure to call ahead or check the website to see when the doors are opening (some "Black Friday" deals start on Thanksgiving Thursday again this year). The sheer volume and variety of deals on offer can be a bit confusing, though, so we've compiled a quick primer on where to find the best deals this Black Friday. That changes during the post-Thanksgiving sales blitz, when certain stores get leave to offer lower-than-normal prices on bare consoles or bundle deals that would cost much more at other times of the year. Most of the year, it's exceptionally hard to find video game hardware and accessories for anything except the manufacturer's suggested retail price.