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Buying Christmas gifts for the gamer in your life is no easy task but we can make it easy for you with this breakdown of the hottest consoles and games. It’s that time of year again. The mince pies have gone on sale (great!), Christmas songs are playing non-stop in every shop you enter (not so great!), and you’ve no idea what to buy video games loving friends and family.
It’s a common problem, given the confusing number of different formats available, the difficulty in knowing what they’ve already got, and the fact that nowadays most games are bought digitally – so there’s little or nothing to put under the tree anyway. That means the best advice for buying video games as a gift is simply to ask the recipient what they’d want – which takes all the fun and surprise out of it. If you want to be more adventurous though, or if you’re a gamer that’s not sure what to ask for, hopefully the following suggestions will be helpful.
PlayStation 5 gifts for Christmas 2024 Few people are going to be giving someone else a console for Christmas, unless it’s a very close familiar member. In which case they’ve probably been planning and discussing it for a long time. Video game consoles are generally released in waves called.