Absolutely fake.
Black Friday is two things:
•A time for stores to clear their shelves of old products that won't move as well over the holidays
•A tool to get people to start "opening their wallets" for the season.
The "deals" here don't make financial sense from a retail perspective.
Console hardware is already sold at a near non-existent profit margin, this is why you only ever see older hardware go on actual "sale" below normal process (occasionally a 3+ year old system gets $10-20 off, it's it really not moving). Instead, you see pack-ins. Pack-ins are arranged through the manufacturer, and are typically included inside the console package (or in the notorious case of Nintendo, pre-installed on the hardware so that you can't trade with a friend or resell the game). You certainly aren't going to see a game system that's been out less than six months steeply discounted. You'd be lucky to see it bundled with a game at all this season. If they sell you a newly released system at a literal financial loss, at most you'll buy a couple discounted games too -you know, games that are already marked down at a loss to get you in the door. There has to be a logical profit point. And they've learned that people rushing to grab video game discounts generally aren't sticking around for much else.
And a PS4 for $150? Maybe the 'mini' model, next year. They aren't hurting to clear store shelves a year before the PS5 releases. Based on past generations, if anything they do that the year AFTER a new generation releases.
Somebody has way too much time on their hands and is pretty bad at Photoshop, and I'm looking at the OP on both counts -they brought this sad attempt in here after all.
ing joke.
