Amazon Prime Day 2022: Everything we know so far

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Amazon have confirmed that Prime Day 2022 will take place this July, finally nailing down the deals-o-thon to a time window and denying me any more excuses to put off writing a guide about it.

Like a shorter Black Friday, this can be a good opportunity to pick up some PC gaming hardware at severely slashed prices, so if you’re currently weighing up a new SSD or replacement mouse then it may be prudent to hold off until the event gets underway. And you might not even need to shop at Amazon for it, as some rival retailers like to run their own deals to compete with Prime Day directly.

For now, you’ll find everything there is to know about Prime Day 2022 below. To be honest there aren’t much many concrete details except the month, but you can get yourself prepped with our best hardware guides in the meantime, and we’ll be rounding up all the best Amazon and non-Amazon Prime Day deals during the event itself.

First off, it’s not really a day. In recent years, Prime Day has been a 48-hour festival of Amazon discounts and lightning sales, often with prices falling to all-time lows for certain items – hence why it can be worth waiting for. Earlier Prime Days had a reputation for trying to shift seemingly random junk (33% off duct tape, hell yeah), but nowadays you’ve got far better chances of finding something you’d actually want.

That includes the latest and greatest PC components and peripherals. Prime Day 2021 cut some of the best SSDs, best PC gaming headsets, and best gaming mice to their lowest prices ever (at the time), and Prime Day 2022 could easily repeat the feat.

What makes Prime Day different to the average Black Friday is that all of Amazon’s best deals are limited to Amazon Prime members. This costs £8