Gamers all have their opinions about what is the best game available today, but only one game can call itself the 2024 Game of the Year winner as decided at the Game Awards, and it’s Astro Bot. While action games and shooters and other high-intensity games have long been the rage, Astro Bot’s adorable big-headed robot’s adventures snuck in to win the big prize in a huge upset.
Sony’s decided to strike while the iron is hot, bundling this hilarious family-friendly game with the PlayStation 5 Slim disc console. This awesome bundle is on sale at Walmart for just $449, $111 off the regular price ($560) and hundreds less than the PS5 Pro console itself without Astro Bot or any other game.
Massive Storage
While the PS5 Pro has been grabbing the headlines and setting off yet another mad shopping rush — remember how hard it was to get the launch model of the PS5 back in the winter of 2020? — the unintended effect has been to make the original PS5 more readily available and more readily subject to great deals.
This updated version of the original PS5 — roughly 30% smaller and lighter than the original PS5 — is packed with a full terabyte of built-in SSD storage, and it’s backward-compatible with PS4 games. This is the disc version of the PS5 Slim, so your collection of PS4 discs get a second life on the PS5 Slim, and thanks to the PS5 Slim’s Game Boost feature, many of those older games play faster and more smoothly than they did on the PS4. The download and load speeds of the PS5 Slim are also a huge leap forward from previous iterations of the PlayStation.
Bonus Astro Bot Content
Getting the 2024 Game of the Year with your new console is a terrific perk, but Sony’s upped the ante by adding bonus content to Astro Bot in this bundle. You’ll get to explore Astro’s Playroom, which comes with four worlds designed to explore the versatile features of the DualSense wireless PlayStation controller.
Hunting down a PS5 Pro is even harder than it was to get your hands on a PS5 when it dropped in 2020. The PS5 Pro is a great console, but so is the PS5 Slim, and this Walmart deal adds the incentive of getting it bundled with the 2024 Game Awards Game of the Year and saving hundreds of dollars.
