ChatGPT Tasks has found a new use case that gamers are going to appreciate: automated deal hunting across the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, and Nintendo eShop. According to a report published April 27 by Tom's Guide writer Elton Jones, setting up scheduled Tasks prompts in ChatGPT surfaced discounts that Jones says he would have missed entirely, including Dark Souls Remastered dropping to $19.99 and the Dragon Ball FighterZ FighterZ Edition on PS5 hitting $14.39.
The idea is straightforward. Instead of manually checking storefronts every few days, Jones configured ChatGPT Tasks to run three different deal-tracking prompts on Fridays at staggered times (5 pm, 5:15 pm, and 5:25 pm). Each prompt had a specific focus: a weekly best-deals digest, a platform-specific deal sniper targeting games with a Metacritic score of 85 or above discounted by at least 50%, and a genre-based finder that filtered by rating and discount threshold.
ChatGPT Tasks deal alerts
The deals that actually came through
The results from a single Friday run were hard to argue with. Here is what the three active Tasks surfaced:
The Metro Saga Bundle is the standout here. Three full games plus Metro Exodus DLC for under $6 is the kind of deal that tends to disappear fast, and it is exactly the type of time-sensitive discount that manual browsing regularly misses.
ChatGPT Tasks can include discount percentage, current price, original price, and a brief recommendation summary in each alert, provided your prompt asks for those details specifically.
What the prompts actually look like
Jones shared seven prompt templates that ChatGPT generated based on his gaming history and preferences. The most useful ones for deal hunters are worth knowing about:
- Wishlist watcher: Monitors a specific list of games and alerts only when any drop by at least 40%, with original price, sale price, and store included
- Historical low finder: Checks whether AAA titles have reached or matched their all-time lowest price across platforms
- Flash sale catcher: Runs every 6 hours and flags limited-time sales of 60% or more on trending games
- Platform-specific sniper: Targets games rated 85 or higher on Metacritic, discounted by 50% or more across all three major digital storefronts
The key here is specificity. Vague prompts produce vague results. Telling Tasks exactly which platforms to check, what discount threshold matters to you, and whether Metacritic score is a filter gets you alerts that are actually actionable rather than a wall of mediocre deals.
FighterZ Edition at 84% off
What this means for how players shop
The practical upside for budget-conscious gamers is real. Australian players in particular deal with storefronts that rarely sync their sales calendars, meaning a deal on the PlayStation Store might not overlap with anything notable on the Nintendo eShop that same week. Automating the search across all three simultaneously removes the friction of checking each one manually.
Here's the thing: ChatGPT Tasks is not browsing live storefronts in real time the way a dedicated price tracker like IsThereAnyDeal does. Its deal data depends on what is accessible through its tools at the time the Task runs, so there is a reasonable chance some flagged prices are slightly stale. Cross-checking any deal before purchasing is still worth the 30 seconds it takes.
That caveat aside, the approach works as a first-pass filter. You set the thresholds once, let Tasks run on a schedule, and only engage when something genuinely hits your target price. For a backlog as deep as most players carry, that is a smarter workflow than refreshing storefront pages out of habit.
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