This Black Friday PS5 deal proves that the console wars are truly over: a PS5 is only £10 more than an Xbox Series S

It appears that Sony is showing Microsoft in particular that there’s only one console to buy this Black Friday: you can currently buy a PS5 for only ten quid more than an Xbox Series S.

Yup, while we’ve been celebrating the super-low prices on Sony’s console since the Black Friday PS5 deals started ‘properly’ last week, this comparison puts the console proposition in 2025 into sharp perspective.

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The PS5 deal that highlights this allows you to nab a PS5 Slim Digital Edition for just £280 at EE (was £429), compared with the lowest price on an Xbox Series S I can find, which is £269.99 at Amazon (was £299.99).

Yup, so for an extra ten pounds more than the once much-lauded Series S, you can go for a Black Friday PS5 deal that gets you a digital, but still fully-powered PS5 console. No power compromises, 825GB of SSD storage goodness, and still the option of adding a disc drive after the fact, too.

Why would you buy any other home gaming console this Black Friday?

Of course, a PS5 for £280 is also much cheaper than the Nintendo Switch 2 at around the £400 mark, but at least that console offers something genuinely different.

There’s no denying the fact that the PS5 Slim and Series S are broadly targeting the same plug-it-into-your-TV kind of gamers, and at these prices, the matchup is a total beatdown, and you can get the best gaming console going right now, for a few beans more than a budget Xbox. Wild.