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

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Call of Duty: ****** Ops 7 launched last month to become the

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in the U.S. by dollar sales. That's a pretty good showing, right?

If you're still looking to pick up the new game, it's down to

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, and around

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. That's up to 50% off the game, only a month after release, on PS5, PS4, and Xbox consoles.

So what's up, and why is one of the best-selling games of the year already so heavily discounted? Well, it doesn't take a genius to realise that ****** Ops 7 doesn't seem to be doing as well as last year's ****** Ops 6.

That's reflected in everything from the

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to fan response to

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, and even

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.

Normally, the newest Call of Duty topping the yearly charts is basically a given. This year, though, the surprise is that

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.

That is not entirely unprecedented. In 2023,

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, and it managed that without MW3 launching into Game Pass.

Still, Call of Duty bounced straight back in 2024, and before that only Rockstar heavyweights like GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 had managed to knock it off the annual top spot, stretching all the way back to Rock Band in 2008.

Viewed in that context, it is hardly shocking that Activision is reportedly rethinking how it plans and

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, or that it is already leaning on aggressive discounts not long after one of its biggest games hit shelves.

Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN's resident deals expert on games, collectibles, trading card games, and more. You can follow him

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