PlayStation Vita: where's the cheapest price?
UPDATE: Asda £97 when you trade in a 3DS.
The cheapest place to buy PlayStation Vita in the UK when it launches on Wednesday is at Asda. The supermarket will sell the Wi-Fi version online and in store for £197. The 3G version is £259.
Asda will knock £100 off the Vita price - of either model - when you trade in a 3DS. Confirm it via tradein.asda.com and you'll receive a £100 off voucher to redeem with your Vita purchase.
Sainsbury's will sell you a Wi-Fi Vita for £200 and a 3G Vita for £250, but only when bought with a game. Otherwise they will cost £229.99 or £279.99, respectively.
Tesco, meanwhile, will sell you a Wi-Fi Vita for £229.91 no strings attached.
Game/Gamestation and HMV are selling Vita in stores for £229.99 (the Wi-Fi model) or £279.99 (the more expensive 3G and Wi-Fi version).
Online, next cheapest after Asda for the Wi-Fi version is SimplyGames. It is charging £199.99, but will surreptitiously slap on another £5.95 for courier delivery.
Then there's ShopTo. There, the Wi-Fi version costs £209.86. It also has the best online price for the 3G version, £259.85. Shopto also has several bundle options available which pack Vita with a small selection of games. One worth highlighting is the Wi-Fi Vita plus Dungeon Hunter, Lumines, Rayman Origins and a 4GB memory card for £269, which shrinks the price of each title to under £20.
The cheapest place for the 3G version online is currently ConsolesAndGadgets.co.uk when you use a 10 per cent off voucher from MyVoucherCodes. This brings the price to £256.48.
Many online retailers (including Shopto and Asda) are offering a free Pre-Order Pack with your purchase. It contains in-ear headphones, exclusive avatar items for PlayStation Home, early access to Frobisher Says! on Vita and a £5 discount for one of four downloadable titles: Little Deviants, Super Stardust Delta, Hustle Kings and Escape Plan.
Amazon does not include the Pre-Order pack, but instead will gift gamers with a free 8GB memory card when bought with PlayStation Vita. Amazon also hosts a build-your-own bundle offer where you can get a selected game for £15, from a choice of Asphalt Injection, Michael Jackson: The Experience, Rayman Origins, Dungeon Hunter Alliance, Lumines Electronic Symphony or Virtua Tennis 4 - meaning some of these are better than half price.
Play.com is £3 more expensive than Amazon, but offers the above Pre-Order Pack as well as matching Amazon's offer of a free 8GB memory card. Not bad. Bundles vary wildly in price but all include the Vita and 8GB memory card plus a game.
GameStop is selling the Wi-Fi Vita with selected games for £219.99, two pence more than its standard Wi-Fi Vita price of £219.97. Not want any of those games? Any other title can be bought in a bundle for £239.99.
It's also worth checking your local Sony Centre. Some stores are offering the Wi-Fi Vita for £219.99 with a free £40 voucher to spend on PlayStation Network content (another HotUKDeals spot).
All details are correct at the time of writing but these things can change, and quickly. If you see an updated offer or something else worth telling others about, let us know in the comments thread below. We'll be keeping this article updated all week.
Bricks and mortar shops
- Asda - £197 (Wi-Fi) or £259 (3G), £100 off when you trade in a 3DS
- Tesco - £229.91 (Wi-Fi)
- Sainsbury's - £229.99 (Wi-Fi) or £279.99 (3G), but £200/£250 when bought with a game
- Game/Gamestation - £229.99 (Wi-Fi) or £279.99 (3G)
- HMV - £229.99 (Wi-Fi) or £279.99 (3G)
- Blockbuster - £229.99 (Wi-Fi) or £279.99 (3G)
- Morrisons - £250 (Wi-Fi)
Vita Wi-Fi
- Asda - £197.00 (with Pre-order Pack)
- SimplyGames - £199.99 (not including £5.95 courier delivery)
- ShopTo - £209.86 (with Pre-order Pack)
- Amazon - £209.99 (with 8GB memory Card)
- Play.com - £212.99 (with 8GB memory card and Pre-order Pack)
- Zavvi - £219.95 (with Pre-order Pack)
- TheHut - £219.95 (with Pre-order Pack)
- Gameseek - £219.99
- GameStop - £219.97
- HMV - £219.99 (with Pre-order Pack)
- Tesco - £219.99
- Sainsbury's - £229.99 (with Pre-order Pack)
- Game - £229.99 (with Pre-order Pack)
- Gamestation - £229.99 (with Pre-order Pack)
- Gameplay - £229.99 (with Pre-order Pack)
- ThatGameCollection - £229.99
- Blockbuster - £229.95
- Base - £229.99
- Argos - £229.99
- ConsolesAndGadgets - £249.98 (£224.99 with 10% off voucher)
Vita 3G + Wi-Fi
- ShopTo - £259.85 (with Pre-order Pack)
- Amazon - £259.99 (with 8GB memory Card)
- Play.com - £262.99 (with 8GB memory card and Pre-order Pack)
- GameStop - £269.97
- HMV - £269.99 (with Pre-order Pack)
- Asda - £269.00 (with Pre-order Pack)
- TheHut - £269.95 (with Pre-order Pack)
- Zavvi - £269.99 (with Pre-order Pack)
- Tesco - £269.99
- Gameseek - £269.99
- Gameplay - £279.95 (with Pre-order Pack)
- ThatGameCollection - £279.95
- Sainsbury's - £279.99 (with Pre-order Pack)
- Game - £279.99 (with Pre-order Pack)
- Gamestation - £279.99 (with Pre-order Pack)
- Base - £279.99
- Blockbuster - £279.99
- Argos - £279.99
- SimplyGames - £279.99 (not including £5.95 courier delivery)
- ConsolesAndGadgets - £284.98 (£256.48 with 10% off voucher)
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Some decent deals around tho!!!
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Got a sneaky feeling these things are going to be in short supply........
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Random. I usually get blu-rays on the saturday before release and games the friday after.
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Only downside is I would've liked an 8 gig card but will make do with 4 gig for now
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Usually excellent, I often use them and Shopto.
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Should be clarified that it's £5 off for ONE of the 4 titles. Not all 4.
UK Playstation
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not much hope in my experience.....
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Maybe its dated for use from the 23rd or something??
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So for £263
Vita Wi-Fi
Virtua Tennis 4
8gb Memory Card
Starter Pack &
Uncharted
Not a bad deal.
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Also, seeing £197 gives me hope of buying one second hand for £100 in a year or so.
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Excitable Edd wants this now. Sensible Edd realises I can sate my gaming needs without it. Must be getting old when sensible wins over excitable....
I like the looks of Vita though. If I still had a regular train commute, this would've been purchased.
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I was originally going to get WipEout 2048, but may as well get the free digital copy when I top up the Vodafone SIM with £5.
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Trading 3ds = £130 trade,Mario Land 3d = £30 trade,Mario Kart 7 = £30 and ghost recon 3ds =£10 trade.
Plus i have a £40 gift card and £10 deposit.
So grand total for Vita = £50
HAPPY DAYS
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Very excited to play me some Uncharted
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That's the bundle I went with. I also orderd Lumines Electronic Symphony and Ridge Racer from Zavvi as they had the best prices.
Roll on Wednesday!
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Vita (Wi-Fi) + Dungeon Hunter (Free game)
4gb memory card
Uncharted
Army Corps of hell
Shinobido 2
Touch my Katarmari
for £274 from Shopto.com it was meant to be £334 but they gave me back £60 as store credit for some reason...? That let me get Last Story and Binary Domain for nothing. plus £17 worth of points. Very happy with that.
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Edit
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Just received this email. I guess it will be delivered by Wednesday then.
Dear
Thank you for pre-ordering PlayStation Vita Console Bundle + Virtua Tennis 4 + 8GB Memory Card - Wi-Fi & 3G (With Pre-Order Pack).
We wanted to let you know that we have received our stock in the warehouse and that your order will be dispatched tomorrow (Tuesday 21st February) via our courier DPD for delivery on Wednesday 22nd February.
Once your order has been processed and dispatched from our warehouse you will receive a confirmation email. Please note that this item will require a signature upon delivery therefore please ensure that someone is available to sign for the item.
Thanks again for pre-ordering with Play.com and we hope that you enjoy the new PlayStation Vita.
Kind Regards
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Mildly annoyed that everyone else using play.com seems to have had their order dispatched today. They took my money on Friday morning and it's been "processing in warehouse" ever since. Could end up getting it late without being able to do anything about it.
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i haven't preordered a console before because they've always been crazy expensive. woot!!
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And what's better taking my misses Vegas Sunday for her birthday so 11 hours of pure vita as long as there's a USB as usual. She is paying for it as a treat for me taking her Vegas.
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The only thing i want to play on vita so far is Uncharted but not so much i'd trade my 3ds...
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/220954458713?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
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Vita, 8GB Memory card, Rayman: Origins and the Pre-Order pack (those headphones look sexy) for £227.99 - not a bad deal, I reckon. Just annoyed I can't afford to get Uncharted too!
I only ordered it about 11pm Monday, so I doubt I'll get it on release though, which is a shame.
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I can't see my F1 2011 arriving anytime soon from Zavvi though, as it hasn't even been processed yet...
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I preordered the 3ds and a couple of games from there - they were all allegedly dispatched three days before launch,
The 3ds (luckily a bundle with a game) turned up on launch day , but the games turned up a WEEK later!
So this time I have plumped for amazon
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Seriously.. Just the Vita-launch lineup is better than all the 3DS games released up til now.. I got my Vita yesterday (connections), and i don't miss my 3DS the slightest! I could never go back to the poor and small 3DS upper screen or it's NON capacitive lower screen for starters.
The only thing the 3DS has is Mario and Zelda, and that's not enough for me anymore.. The 3DS feels so damn gimped it almost hurts. Sony has done everything right this time in my book, while Nintendo has done the opposite, for the last time. Im tired of giving them second chances..
Buy a Vita, you will not regret it.
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Got uncharted for £28
Got dungeon hunter, rayman origins, lumines and asphalt injection all for £24 when they were priced at £6 each
All from amazon
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3G antennas can be a noticeable extra cost as they have to be good enough to pick up mobile reception, but also small enough to fit into the device. There's also the 3G modem in there too, as well as the SIM card reading parts.
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if i were to choose between them right now just by looking at the games, I'd go with the 3DS. luckily i don't have to make that decision anyway.
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Im an Australian & only a few places stock the Vita, & they're all charging full rrp! And we're talking $350 for the console only!
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Thanks ASDA! You continue to amaze me with prices pulled out of your ass!
/AdDugg
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