A couple of weeks ago I got fed up with the lack of filters in the eStore and hit upon the **brilliant and highly original** idea of building a website that would pull together the discounted games from the eStore, and combine them with review data to make it easier to spot cheap games that were actually worth playing.
I built the bulk of it over the weekend, fine tuned it a bit over the week, and then showed it to a friend of mine who said:
"Oh cool, yeah like Deku Deals!"
Me: "Deku..?"
Yeah so my "market research" wasn't very thorough apparently, and I've gone ahead and built a stripped down Deku Deals.
The concept is the same, but I've written my own quality scoring system rather than using metacritic, and each game gets a "value" rating that combines quality and discount level to come up with a score (which I guess is much like what Deku does behind the scenes when you order by "bang for my buck").
It was a fun little project, that I mostly did for my own amusement, so I'm happy enough to leave it on the shelf. However, having built the thing, I wonder if it could be made useful for the community in any way.
So my question is this: is there anything that you want from a tool like this that isn't served by Deku (or by any alternatives that probably exist, but evaded by half-baked market analysis)?
If it feels like it can be made to fill a need then I'll put a bit more work into it and release it. If not, I'll print out the source code, frame it, and hang it over my desk as a monument to hubris.
@ian_beale Does Deku Deals do price alerts? I'm not sure. PSPrices.com does though.
Deku Deals doesn't compare prices across eshop territories. The site I use the most is eshop-prices.com... it lists every eshop price for nearly every game (some things don't seem to work properly though - e.g. Trine Collection cheapest listed as around £30-40, even though it was available for £11.99 in UK; and DLC can be hard to find). Hence most of my eshop purchases are via the South African, Norwegian, Russian or Mexican eshops.
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Yeah Deku does price alerts for specific games, but one feature I was considering that I haven't seen elsewhere would be a "saved search" style alert. So you could say "email me whenever you find action games that are at least 75% reduced, with a quality score about 80". Would that be useful to people?
I imagine that whatever issues eshop-prices.com has comparing across regions, I would probably hit too, so I'm not too keen to go down that road.
The saved search idea seems like a good one. The eshop isn’t the easiest to navigate and if you are looking for games on offer in a less popular genre this would be very useful. I often have issues even finding certain genres to browse through.
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Have never used Deku Deals as I have my own personal list of games I want to buy and play. And still the list is very long indeed. But I feel this website should be useful to others who buy bulk or are always on the hunt for the best deals.
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