There's almost never a better time to buy a new game console or pick up some games for the one you have than Black Friday. If you can find them in stock, anyway. Here, we've rounded up the best deals we've found on controllers, headsets, games, and the occasional console we can find. We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out .

Xbox has a more complex and difficult argument to make. "It's got a great ecosystem" isn't exactly a great sales pitch in a crowded GameStop. But Game Pass already has 10 million subscribers, a solid, loyal foundation for any developing online community. And its xCloud service, which will allow Xbox and Windows players to access their games anywhere via a smartphone or tablet, is already proving to be a robust, stable experience even in its current testing stage. For the moment, Sony has no counterargument.

With all this talk about updates to Minecraft's Java, Windows and Pocket Edition versions, what about the consoles, currently missing a slew of coveted PC version features? Microsoft just unveiled a trove of new elements -- some long-awaited, others bolt-from-the-blue -- designed to shore up the PlayStation and Xbox versions of the company's freeform builder in late December. Dubbed the "Holiday Update" (and, as usual, free to existing owners), it'll bring the elusive Elytra glider to the game (think capes that let you "fly"). Better still, console owners will get a formerly Java exclusive feature dubbed "Amplified Terrain" that'll let players rejigger a world's hundreds of thousands (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U) on up to tens of millions (PS4, Xbox One) of blocks, to create topographical extremities sure to impress any virtual alpinist. Microsoft says the update includes new mobs, items and status effects, as well as user interface, game and tutorial changes.