Price Warfare

Activision's decision to price Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 at GBP 10 above the normal SRP for console games in the UK is still being digested by the games market and gamers alike. The company protests that the decision is purely based on economic factors - the weakness of the pound on the currency markets and the rising costs of development. Just about everyone else, however, is calling a spade a spade - this is a cheeky testing of the water, to see whether the market will support higher SRPs for major releases.

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