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Console bundles are where used pricing gets genuinely irrational. A PlayStation 5 Slim Digital with the NBA 2K25 bundle asks $650.00. The Digital edition with Horizon Forbidden West asks $439.99. Same console. A $210.01 gap decided by which game came in the box.
The hardware is the same machine
Both are digital-edition PS5s with no disc drive. Same GPU, same SSD, same performance. Nothing about the gaming experience differs between these two listings except the bundled title and the box art.
That's the entire basis for a $210 spread.
Why the sports bundle costs more
Recency, mostly. NBA 2K25 is a current-year sports title and the bundle is newer, so fewer of them have hit the secondhand market. Horizon Forbidden West bundles have been circulating for longer and there are simply more of them.
There's a trap in that. Sports games are the fastest-depreciating category in gaming, because next year's edition makes this one's online population evaporate. You're paying a premium today for a game whose value drops on a schedule.
What the bundled game is actually worth
A digital bundle code is worth what the game sells for, and NBA 2K titles discount hard within months of release. Horizon Forbidden West is an older single-player game that stays playable indefinitely and doesn't depend on a server population.
Neither justifies $210. If you want the console, the game bundled with it should be close to a rounding error in the decision.
Bottom line
Buy the Horizon bundle and save the $210, even if you have no interest in the game. You're getting identical hardware, and if you want NBA 2K you can buy it outright for a fraction of the difference. Only take the 2K25 bundle if it drops to within about $60 of the alternative.