It's open wallet Season this, um season. I just opened and perused an email from GOG about their Winter Sale that runs through January 2nd. There's the impending Steam Winter Sale starting December 19th and Nintendo's semi-unorganized eShop kinda-wintery sale that goes until whenever publishers decide to end their respective sales. I don't know about the Xbox or PlayStation because despite what Sarah Bond's PR team says, I don't actually own a dedicated Xbox. And that is all on top of whatever deals and/or promotions are or will be run by Humble, Fanatical, and every other key reselling site out there.
And then, throwing a kibosh on the whole iron works is Epic Games with their free game-a-day between December 19 - January 2nd so there's that to factor in to. All to say nothing of the existing queue on every single platform I regularly use.
The impotence of this blurb of an article occurred earlier today again, in part from that GOG email, but also because I saw that Game Stop has the Final Fantasy I - VI Anniversary physical cart for the Nintendo Switch on sale for $54.99, which is the lowest price I have ever seen that specific collection and had my Game Stop gift card worked at that moment, I likely would have pressed that red "Place Order" button; $9.16 is a pretty good price for each game. But because my gift card didn't immediately work, I began to second guess myself all over again. Did I want this collection for a system that's at the end of its production life? I know Nintendo has said that the Switch 2 will be backward compatible with Switch 1 games (physical and digital?), but I also then thought maybe I'd wait to see if the same collection would have a similar discount in the next week or two over on Steam, then it would be available on whatever computer/Steam Deck I had in the future. Or at least for as long as the game was operational on newer systems and didn't go the way of either Max Payne or the now-delisted Metro 2033 titles (the original ones, not the Redux).
So I've decided to wait and see and potentially face that fomo as the hep kids these days call it. And there are the upcoming Xmas, Chanukkah, and Boxing Day holidays coming up too. So there's that.
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