Dealmaster: The Black Friday 2018 tech deals that might actually be worth buying

Enlarge / A bundle with Sony's PS4 Slim and Marvel's Spider-Man for $200 looks like one of the better deals this Black Friday. (credit: Mark Walton)

Black Friday is less than a week away, and we're starting to get a good sense of what kinds of deals the tech world plans to offer up.

If you're at all familiar with how days like this go, it should come as no surprise that most of the "deals" advertised for Black Friday aren't really discounts at all. While it's true that Black Friday and Cyber Monday bring more legitimately good tech deals than any other period of the year, they're also a time for retailers to pounce on the gift-needy public. Lots of less-than-stellar gadgets will be offered at prices that aren't much lower than they are the rest of the year. (As always, price history sites like CamelCamelCamel are an invaluable resource if you're on the fence about a deal.)

So to help you separate the wheat from the chaff, we've spent the past couple of weeks emailing device makers about their upcoming offers and digging through ad scans the major retailers have pushed out ahead of Friday's sales event. Below is a quick rundown of gadget and gaming deals that may be worth your attention-and what to expect from the bigger tech brands and product categories later this week.

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