CaptPlissken
03-11-2009, 10:28
Smart consumers are taking advantage of various offers at retail to buy Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for less than half the recommended retail price.
The publisher has been heavily criticised for pushing up the console RRP of the latest from Infinity Ward to £54.99, but a cut-throat retail market is providing consumers with a number of options to avoid paying the inflated price.
UK retailer Gamestation is currently offered the game for £4.99 if a consumer trades in two games from a list that includes WET, Overlord II and Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. With Play.com selling Overlord II for just £9.99, users on website hotukdeals have already begun buying two copies of the Codemasters' title and trading it in for a pre-ordered copy Modern Warfare 2.
Online retailers are currently offering the basic Modern Warfare game for around £45, but all eyes will be on the supermarkets, which have already slashed two big releases FIFA 2010 and Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising in order to grab sales.
Last week, ASDA admitted that it sells some games at a loss because "customers continue to tell us that computer games are an expensive product in today's economic climate so we are working hard to try and offer them consistently good value for money within the games category".
Gamestation are doing a similar offer to game whereby if you trade in any two titles on the list (shown below) you can get Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 for just £4.99. A good deal in itself as many of the games people will already have/can be picked up cheap but the ultimate deal for me is this - Overlord II is on sale at play at the minute for £9.99 PS3 / £10 XBox this means
2x Overlord II PS3 = £19.98 + £4.99 = £24.97
2x Overlord II XBox = £20 + £4.99 = £24.99
Did this myself and had no problem trading in two copies of the same game. Delicious
TRADE IN NOW IS POSSIBLE - YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL RELEASE - I DID SO AT MY LOCAL STORE AND WAS TOLD WHEN TRADING IN JUST MENTION THE OFFER - ALTHOUGH ALL STORES MAY NOT HAVE THE SAME ATTITUDE CALL FIRST AND ASK!
The publisher has been heavily criticised for pushing up the console RRP of the latest from Infinity Ward to £54.99, but a cut-throat retail market is providing consumers with a number of options to avoid paying the inflated price.
UK retailer Gamestation is currently offered the game for £4.99 if a consumer trades in two games from a list that includes WET, Overlord II and Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. With Play.com selling Overlord II for just £9.99, users on website hotukdeals have already begun buying two copies of the Codemasters' title and trading it in for a pre-ordered copy Modern Warfare 2.
Online retailers are currently offering the basic Modern Warfare game for around £45, but all eyes will be on the supermarkets, which have already slashed two big releases FIFA 2010 and Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising in order to grab sales.
Last week, ASDA admitted that it sells some games at a loss because "customers continue to tell us that computer games are an expensive product in today's economic climate so we are working hard to try and offer them consistently good value for money within the games category".
Gamestation are doing a similar offer to game whereby if you trade in any two titles on the list (shown below) you can get Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 for just £4.99. A good deal in itself as many of the games people will already have/can be picked up cheap but the ultimate deal for me is this - Overlord II is on sale at play at the minute for £9.99 PS3 / £10 XBox this means
2x Overlord II PS3 = £19.98 + £4.99 = £24.97
2x Overlord II XBox = £20 + £4.99 = £24.99
Did this myself and had no problem trading in two copies of the same game. Delicious
TRADE IN NOW IS POSSIBLE - YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL RELEASE - I DID SO AT MY LOCAL STORE AND WAS TOLD WHEN TRADING IN JUST MENTION THE OFFER - ALTHOUGH ALL STORES MAY NOT HAVE THE SAME ATTITUDE CALL FIRST AND ASK!