Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Forces PS4 Players to Buy Cross-Gen Bundle

The CoD Publisher is Activision - so this is absolutely no surprise

Pre-Ordered mine last week from Base. The PS5 standard version is £59.85 delivered

At this stage it shouldn't be available on PS4 full stop. Time to leave the PS4 in the past where it belongs

Well that’s sneaky. But it is coming from the company whose male employees stole breast milk from the office fridge so not surprising.

@Marios-love-child Exactly . the only big letdown and shocker is that it’s cross-gen ( aka another new last gen game )

I dont play CoD, so i only saved an extra €10

@nessisonett
What!? I know some weird **** has gone down at Activision but I never heard about that one! That's just extremely weird.

I no longer respond to call of duty, I am retired !

From the business standpoint, it's funny, this reverse PS5-PS4 compatibility. I bet, that someone at marketing division of Activision got promoted for this. But for me, as a longtime COD player who played and enjoyed Cold War, but never touched Vanguard, this isn't a way how to win me back...

Not really sure what the big deal is here. $70 for a game these days is perfectly reasonable.

COD is basic as hell

I curse the day Sony opened the gates for $70 price points

@nessisonett unless they're stealing it directly from the source who cares?

Well it's Sony that encouraged this after all and Square following suit on PC and I guess poor little Activision can't afford to make their games for a £60 price point

@Lem1697 Sony didn’t start 70$ Price take two did.

@wildcat_kickz me neither literally everything has gone up in price groceries housing other forms of entertainment. I actually save money playing games it keeps me in the house.

£70 to hear squeakers swearing and crying when they lose, no thanks.

The easy solution to this is stop being fools and don't buy COD.

Well it's Activision so it's to be expected, one of the greediest publishers around

@Deljo It's seen as best practice to not steal from colleagues and seen as messed up if you are stealing their bodily fluids (from source or storage).

@Marios-love-child It's a bit difficult to do that when most people have struggled to get a PS5, it's harsh to freeze them out because of Sony's troubles.

@carlos82 I mean, you get the PS5 version out of it when you get one, so it isn't all bad.

@carlos82 Wrong it was take two that started that $70 price hike not Sony.

@Lem1697 Sony didn't start that false. It was take two that did the $70 price hike.

@Marios-love-child for real. like, the PS5 is nearly 2 years old at this point...I get it, they want to maximise their install base, but it's time we started seeing native PS5 and XSX/XSS games be prioritised. (The only thing I hate more than seeing "PS4/PS5" is "Switch/PS4/PS5", you KNOW that game is going to be held back hard.)

$70 for “cross gen” bundle, that’s highway robbery!

@Don_Corleone Sony as a platform holder normalised it

£70 isn't that much, might get you only half a tank of petrol at present.

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Everything is going up apart from wages, at least with this you have a choice. Nobody needs to buy this game and leave it long enough and it will be reduced in price.

@SolaceCreed so do many other games without the price increase

@Col_McCafferty I was saying the other day that it costs more to fill my new car than my old one despite it having a smaller tank

Virtually the only good thing about Microsoft acquiring Activision-Blizzard is once their games are on Game Pass, they'll sell far fewer copies.

@carlos82 it's ridiculous, at least we all know that games will always go down in price. Eventually.

Or be added to a paid subscription service.

This situation isn't ideal but we have a choice, nobody is forcing us to pay for a game. Everyone needs to eat and pay for electricity and gas etc etc.

The world feels really broken and has done for a while. Gaming is an escape from this.

@SolaceCreed

It's not that difficult, if you try hard enough you can get one. You just have to be persistent and constantly checking stock.

The issue I'm finding is that I know I fair few people who have the attitude of "why should I bother buying a PS5 when I can play all the same games on my PS4"

Until they stop releasing cross gen games that attitude won't change

Theres an easy way to avoid this. Dont give Activision another penny of your money.

@Col_McCafferty yeah at this stage I've given up on the game price thing and I know I'm a hypocrite because if the upcoming Resident Evil 4 remake is £70 I won't hesitate to buy it at launch.

These days I don't buy many games at full price, RE being one of the few exceptions, it's not like most of us don't have anything to play whilst waiting for prices to come down

@Col_McCafferty "The world feels really broken and has done for a while. Gaming is an escape from this."

Between this and choosing the correct answer of Stray as your #1 game from the show, you're moving up on my "people I like" list.... It's a very small list.

I feel towards Call of Duty like Robert California feels towards the Black eyed peas: It's a game for people who don't like games. It's fun for people who don't like fun. It's a power fantasy for people who don't like fantasy.

@Deljo the baby who needs that breast milk to survive cares.

@Marios-love-child I was lucky enough to get mine on release day, but the console is still struggling to get out in the wider world, so yeah, I think while more PS4's are still selling and making money, they'll keep going with it. Why limit yourself to a much smaller audience with every game?

@Resi32 Will be Microsoft soon, apparently.

@NEStalgia really?! How the hell did that happen?

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@carlos82 This'll be the new normal soon. When the PS5 is more out there for people.

@SolaceCreed

Me too, right place, right time you could say.

From a business perspective I do understand why they do it. As a consumer though, I find it utterly frustrating to see games released for both PS5 and 4

I didn't pay out all that hard earned cash for the latest console only for The vast majority of games to be released on both new and old consoles. I just feel completely cheated tbh.

I almost didn't bother buying Gran Turismo 7 on principal when they announced that it was going to be cross gen after originally saying it would be a PS5 exclusive. But in the end I realized I was cutting off my nose to spite my face

These companies are making record profits and you have some sheep defending price raises… smh.

They have trained the people well.

@Col_McCafferty Just a sign of the times

Back in my day...
...when I was 9yrs old(damn, I'm old) I had to mow a few yards and gather some birthday money, but I was finally able to walk into toys r us and buy contra III: the alien wars for the snes. In 92' that game released, at toys r us at least, for $69.99. I was devastated, cause my young ass was like, "the fcuk is taxes?!" The cashier helped me out. Thank yous, little old lady cashier!

Short story, long, $70 games have been a long time coming. Just depends on whether you're perturbed enough by it to wait for a sale or not buy it at all.

@Marios-love-child

It’s a live service title.

Those ain’t leaving PS4 or XBONE anytime soon. Live service lives and dies by consistent player counts.

@Marios-love-child I get where you're coming from, I brought most of them on PS5 so far. They have the extra features (mostly).
I buy the PS4 version when if I'm unsure if I'll like it or if I want two trophy stacks.

Glad I played it in 2009. Back then Tesco was selling it for like £25 to get punters in the stores. I was a student and whiled away many hours on this game. I remember the time I got a nuke on that map with the wrecked helicopter in the middle. Good times.

I'll always buy the physical editions of cod because they are always cheaper..you will be able to get it for around £50-£55 as the release date closes in..and warzones going to be free anyway..you dont want it then dont buy it...its really that simple

How about I don't buy it at all? That seems like a killer deal 🤝

That's got to be on Microsofts smart delivery 👎🏻

@nessisonett did he really ? That's so weird 🙈

Could you buy the ps4 version physically to get around this?