Xbox Black Friday 2025: Best Deals on Consoles, Games, and Accessories

Xbox’s 2025 Black Friday sale leans heavily on digital games and accessories rather than headline-grabbing console discounts. If you’re hoping to fill out a library, replace a drifting controller, or finally grab that premium headset, this is a good year. If you’re waiting for a cheap new Series X, temper expectations.

Xbox Black Friday 2025: what’s actually on sale

Microsoft is running its Black Friday promotion through the Black Friday Sale on the Xbox Store and the broader Sales & Specials area. The key beats:

On Microsoft’s own Black Friday landing page, the focus is clear: “shop and save on select games, controllers, accessories, and more” – consoles are pushed, but not slashed.

Console deals: new prices are flat, bundles and refurb do the work

There are two very different stories on hardware.

• On the main Xbox Black Friday sale there are no direct price cuts on new Series X|S consoles. Instead, Microsoft leans on trade-in offers (for example, credit for a used console) rather than sticker-price reductions.
• Elsewhere, some retailers are doing modest cuts or bundles:
  • An Xbox Series X 1TB can be found with around £60 off in the UK when bought standalone.
  • A Series X bundled with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 trims about £21 from buying them separately.
  • A Series S bundle pairing the 512GB digital console with 24 months of Game Pass Ultimate knocks around £60 off the combined price.
  • In the US, big-box retailers are advertising Series X consoles around the mid-$300s during wider gaming sales.

Microsoft’s own best value play is on Certified Refurbished consoles through the Microsoft Store’s gaming section. There, you see:

Refurb units include Microsoft’s warranty, which softens the blow of buying pre-owned. If you’re already in the ecosystem, it’s often a better value upgrade than chasing tiny discounts on brand-new boxes.

Game deals: digital flood, physical bargains on big franchises

The real action is in software. The Xbox Store’s Black Friday sale lists over 2,000 discounted games, with some stretching up to 75 percent off. Highlights include a mix of very recent releases and evergreen hits dropping to new low prices.

On top of that, the Microsoft Store’s UK gaming hub calls out an “Xbox Digital Game Sale” with savings “up to 75%” on titles like Hogwarts Legacy, Gotham Knights, Mortal Kombat 11, and more. Many of these are also included with Game Pass, but Black Friday is when permanent ownership often drops below the cost of a couple of subscription months.

Curated highlight lists from deals-focused communities pull out 30 or so especially strong prices, split across three brackets:

• Blockbusters at or back to all-time-low digital prices – think Cyberpunk 2077, Forza Horizon 5, Persona 5 Royal, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Star Wars: Outlaws-style open-worlds, and legacy bundles like Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition.
• Very recent 2025 games with surprisingly deep cuts already – Avowed, Doom: The Dark Ages, an Oblivion remaster, and acclaimed indies such as Blue Prince.
• Sub-$15 titles that have quietly slipped to their lowest price yet – including 2023’s Dead Space remake, tough Metroidvanias like Blasphemous 2, and remastered classics like Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2.

Note: Some of these games are also available via Game Pass. If you plan to keep a title long-term, Black Friday can still make sense; if you’re likely to bounce off it, staying with the subscription is cheaper.

Controller and accessory deals: where the real hardware savings are

While consoles barely move in price, controllers and accessories absolutely do. This is consistent across the Microsoft Store, Amazon, Best Buy, and UK retailers.

Xbox controllers

The baseline Xbox Wireless Controller is discounted widely. On Microsoft’s UK storefront, the standard pad drops from £59.99 to £40.00. Bigger retailers in the US push it further, to around $39.99 (roughly 38 percent off the $64.99 MSRP), and that price applies across multiple colorways.

Special editions are also cheaper than usual:

• “Breaker Special Edition” variants drop to the high-£40s/low-£50s, saving £23–26.
• Limited runs like the DOOM: The Dark Ages Limited Edition controller see similar cuts, landing around £51.99.
• The “Pulse Cipher Special Edition” falls from £74.99 to about £42 – a large discount on what is usually a collector-priced pad.

Third-party controllers and chargers also feature:

• Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 is around 30 percent off at several retailers – roughly £88 in the UK or similar in dollars, versus a typical £125/£169.99 tag depending on bundle.
• Razer Wolverine V3 Tournament Edition (a wired esports-focused pad) is discounted by roughly a third, to about £65/$65.
• Turtle Beach Afterglow Wave controllers bring RGB lighting and remappable buttons with about 15 percent shaved off the top.
• HEYLICOOL dual charging docks drop by close to 28 percent, helping keep spare batteries topped up.

In the US, Microsoft’s own deals on controllers are sometimes beaten by Amazon and Best Buy, even while those controllers are still technically “on sale” on Xbox.com at higher prices. It’s worth checking both.

Headsets and audio

Headsets might be the best value-per-dollar upgrades in this sale. Offers span the full range from official first-party to enthusiast brands:

These discounts matter because audio hardware doesn’t iterate as quickly as consoles or GPUs; a good headset now will still feel current in a few years. The official Xbox Wireless Headset in particular is a safe pick for most players looking for simple console pairing and integrated chat controls.

Storage, cooling, and extras

• External drives: Budget 500GB USB 3.0 drives, like the UnionSine HD2510, sit around 19 percent off. They’re best used for backward-compatible titles and cold storage rather than next-gen-only games, which still need internal or expansion SSD space.
• Cooling and wraps: Add-on cooling fans for Series X, such as a GAMSURFING-branded unit, drop by about 15 percent. Console wraps themed around Doom: The Dark Ages or Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 don’t see huge cuts but offer cosmetic upgrades.
• Room lighting: Paladone Hexagon LED light kits with Xbox branding drop ~15 percent, aimed squarely at streaming or gaming-room aesthetics.
• Displays: A stand-out UK deal is Hisense’s 43-inch 43E78QTUK PRO 144Hz QLED TV, advertised at roughly half price. It combines 4K, 144Hz, variable refresh features, low-latency game modes, and Dolby Atmos support – basically a spec sheet tuned for Xbox Series X|S.

Game Pass and subscriptions: fewer deals, more workarounds

On the subscription side, Microsoft is not using Black Friday 2025 to push aggressive new Game Pass promos. The key points:

• There are no significant new Game Pass Ultimate discounts directly from Microsoft tied to Black Friday.
• However, some retailers still sell 3-month Game Pass Ultimate codes at the pre-price-hike level of $59.99 instead of $89.99. Those codes can be redeemed on your account and stacked up to 36 months.

Outside of that, Black Friday is more about locking in ownership of specific games than playing the subscription arbitrage game. If a title you’re eyeing is heavily discounted and you expect to revisit it over time, buying outright during the sale can hedge against future subscription changes.

When to buy and when to wait

Black Friday is no longer a one-day event; the Xbox promotions run across much of November and into early December, often wrapping around December 3rd on the digital game side. That timing shapes how you should shop.

• Don’t wait on low-stock gear. Limited editions, niche accessories, and specific headset colors tend to sell out before prices drop any further – if they drop at all.
• Expect the best prices in the last two weeks of November. Retailers often hold back their sharpest cuts for around November 17th–December 1st, then roll into Cyber Monday with roughly the same numbers.
• Use price history tools and wishlists. Adding games and gear to wishlists on major retailers, or using browser-based trackers, makes it easier to confirm that a “deal” is actually a deal and to get alerts when prices move.
• Lean on price promises when buying early. Microsoft’s store, for example, offers extended return windows and an extended price promise into late January 2026 for qualifying purchases, allowing a one-time price adjustment if a physical product drops further.

For consoles, it’s reasonable to buy when you find the right bundle or refurb price rather than waiting for an unlikely fire sale on brand-new stock. For games, the choice is mostly between digital permanence at a discount and the even steeper—but sometimes temporary—cuts on physical discs.

Overall, Xbox’s 2025 Black Friday season is less about a single killer deal and more about stacking smart, incremental savings: grab a controller at 40 percent off, a headset at 30 percent, a couple of $20 blockbuster downloads, and, if you’re lucky, a decently priced refurb Series X or S to run it all.