How to save money on buying games for consoles like xbox or playstation?

Every console owner is faced with high prices for games. Buy one game - quickly realize that for a month it is not enough to continue to enjoy time favorite console would have to spend a lot of money for one more game. Yes, video games really hit the budget of the owner of the console. But what do you do to sell the console? How to enjoy your favorite games while saving their money?

Discounts.
Each game console has a store with digital games. But it really is a great opportunity to save your money.
But there are a few downsides:
1) Discounts have to wait. For them it is necessary constantly to follow and not always applies to those games that interest you.
2)If you collect games, for example to transfer an inheritance to children , you need to play was tangible in the box. Unfortunately, it is not possible.
3)the game you Purchased you will not be able to sell or trade. Yes, you'll play the game. You pass it or you get tired of it. And then what? Agree, you want to return the money or change it to something new?

A Premium subscription.
From minus is, of course, the price of the subscription. Companies love to increase it from year to year, but there are also positive sides.
First, with a premium service every month, you get one or two games of category AAA, not counting the pile of "Goodies" loaded in the appendage. Typically, this is a very worthy projects, the release of which took place at least nine months ago. Or simply luxurious games, which for a number of reasons "shot" on the market is not as loud as expected the short-sighted publisher. Second, the subscriber with the "gold" status receives an additional discount on the digital copy, which is sometimes up to 20-30% of their nominal value.

The disadvantages of this method are almost the same as was described in the discounts.
That's why there is another solution.

Groups and services for buying and selling games
The idea is simple. You have a game that someone else needs or does it have a game which you need. You touch it, but it's not a problem, and agree on the terms of the transaction. Come to an agreement. Profit.
There are specialized web sites like Craigslist or SecondGame

Buying a purse digital copies of games.
Interesting way to save on games. The main thing you need to use it — a trusted friend, ready to share all the costs, as well as high-speed Internet connection. The essence of the operation:
1) you buy a digital copy of any game;
2) download it to a hard drive in its own console;
3) turn off your console and deactivate it as primary in the settings menu (only for PS4);
4) submit your details (username and password) tested comrade;friend download the game from your virtual profile to the hard disk of your console, and then out of your profile and go to the console using their credentials;
5) PROFIT!
Attention!
After you have transferred personal data to the partner, do not go online on the console under your profile. Wait for another signal that downloading games to your profile successfully completed.
- Always use this method only with trusted friends whom you know personally.
- Never share the password of the mailbox your email.
- Don't trust anyone, not even myself.

This is a quick tutorial how to save their money, but to play your favorite games.
What do you use?

Source: How to sell or buy a used game for PS4 and Xbox One.