Sonic and Mario’s rivalry may have cooled since they started competing in the Olympics together, but Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds might be the closest to a Mario Kart beater we’ve seen in a while.
The game succeeds with a “kitchen sink” approach, with a ton of characters, worlds, and power-ups that come from all over SEGA’s IP and beyond, and now you can save big on it for Black Friday.
The Black Friday sale at Target has dropped the price of the PS5 and Nintendo Switch versions down to $44.99 - a $25 discount on a game that only launched at the end of September.
The big draw this time is not just that the game’s vehicles transform between different modes, but that racers will travel through dimensions to different tracks during the same race. That keeps everyone on their toes, with the kart in first getting to decide from one of two options.
There are a huge number of characters included, too. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Dr. Eggman are obvious inclusions, but the game’s season pass includes Steve and Alex from Minecraft, Pac-Man, Mega Man, and more.
In our review, Jada Griffin awarded the game a 9 out of 10, saying, “Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds fires on all cylinders with a fantastic roster, excellent courses, and lengthy list of customization options.”
That roster is only growing, too. The SpongeBob SquarePants pack will take players to Bikini Bottom, while there’s also a free update introducing NiGHTS, AiAi, and Tangle & Whisper. It’ll also come to Nintendo Switch 2 at long last on December 4.
Other standout offers in Nintendo's Black Friday sale includes a big discount on the best microSD express card right now. It's for the recently released Samsung P9 512GB MicroSD Express card, now just $74.99 after a 25% off instant discount.
When it comes to games, my top pick is Super Mario Odyssey right now, which ranked fourth on IGN's "Top 100 Nintendo Games of All Time", for just 30 bucks.
For more deals, you should also check out every PS5 game that's discounted at part of PlayStation's brand new Black Friday offers. There's some big discounts on first party PlayStation games in the sale especially from the past few years. My top pick is Game of the Year 2024 winner, Astro Bot, for $39.99, which is endless amounts of fun.
Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He's a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife's dismay.
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