Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is Already Half Price at Best Buy, Barely a Month After Release

So what's up, and wherefore is 1 of the best-selling games of the twelvemonth already truthful heavy discounted? Well, it doesn't instrumentality a genius to realise that Black Ops 7 doesn't look to beryllium doing arsenic good arsenic past year's Black Ops 6.

That's reflected successful everything from the captious reappraisal scores to instrumentality effect to European income figures, and adjacent Activision's ain admissions.

Normally, the newest Call of Duty topping the yearly charts is fundamentally a given. This year, though, the astonishment is that Battlefield 6 looks acceptable to assertion the apical spot successful the US instead.

That is not wholly unprecedented. In 2023, Hogwarts Legacy outsold Modern Warfare 3, and it managed that without MW3 launching into Game Pass.

Still, Call of Duty bounced consecutive backmost successful 2024, and earlier that lone Rockstar heavyweights similar GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 had managed to sound it disconnected the yearly apical spot, stretching each the mode backmost to Rock Band successful 2008.

Viewed successful that context, it is hardly shocking that Activision is reportedly rethinking however it plans and releases Call of Duty twelvemonth to year, oregon that it is already leaning connected assertive discounts not agelong aft 1 of its biggest games deed shelves.

Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN's nonmigratory deals adept connected games, collectibles, trading paper games, and more. You tin travel him @robertliam21 connected Twitter/X oregon Bluesky.

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Dec 19, 2025 3:39 pm