February’s biggest gaming release just got a huge discount

THIS year has already been exceptionally strong for gaming, with a host of big-name releases each month.

Apart from all the big games that have hit the market like Suicide Squad, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and Helldivers 2, indie games like Balatro have taken up people’s time.

This means that many people have had to divide their time and money and make difficult decisions about exactly which game they want.

Due to the number of games released last month, games that were expected to do well did not reach the predicted numbers.

This is the case for Skull & Bones, a highly anticipated open-world pirate adventure that has been in development for over a decade.

Aside from the number of games released, there are several factors that led to Skull & Bones’ poor sales.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot defended Skull & Bones’ $70/£70 price tag, despite it generating the in-game revenue of a free-to-play game like Fortnite.

Guillemot called it a quadruple-A game and said it is the first game of this kind of quality.

However, this statement was not supported by reviews, with Skull & Bones receiving a mediocre 60 rating on the aggregated review site Metacritic.

All of this information led to Skull & Bones receiving a significant price drop just three weeks after launch.

In the US, Best Buy is currently selling Skull & Bones for Xbox and PS5 at a 36% discount, meaning it only costs $45.

There are also some sales in the UK, but the best deal we found was at Hit, which is selling Skull & Bones for £50 at a 28% discount.

To read more about gaming deals, check out the PlayStation game currently on sale on Steam.

Written by Georgina Young on behalf of GLHF.

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