Sainsbury's/Morrisons cheapest for MW2

By Robert Purchese Published 10 November, 2009

We compare the market.

Food palaces Sainsbury's and Morrisons are the cheapest places to buy Modern Warfare 2.

The PS3 or Xbox 360 game can be yours for just £26. Well, in theory, as it's currently out of stock in Sainsbury's.

Your next best bet is either Tesco or Amazon.co.uk, where the console versions cost £32 and the PC version around 30 quid.

Failing that, then GAME and ShopTo are selling Modern Warfare 2 for £42.99/£34.99.

After those you're left with the pack: ASDA, Argos, Gamestation, Play.com, HMV, where the game sells for £44.99/£34.99.

Alternatively, you could try eBay, which is littered with dirt-cheap listings awaiting bidders.

Local store prices may differ. Please let us know if they do, as we love a bit of gossip-slash-news.

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  • IMadeThis #1 2 years ago

    Nope! Morrisons a penny cheaper!

  • woodnotes #2 2 years ago

    Or Makro @ £20

  • vincentw00t #3 2 years ago

    Got mine from Sainsbury's this morning on the way to work, about 8.50am. No queueing, no fussing.

  • Darkjinxter #4 2 years ago

    Just snagged a PS3 MW2 for 26 GBP, bargain.
    Woodnotes is right about Makro's 20 GBP offer, which makes MW2 the cheapest AAA launch game evar!

  • BabyJesus #5 2 years ago

    Yep Morrisons is cheaper.

  • giant_frying_pan #6 2 years ago

    IMadeThis beat me to it. Makro kind of doesn't count as not everyone has access to that offer.

    Eurofailer! (boy, I feel oh-so clever for that massive zinger!)

  • jonsaan #7 2 years ago

    My pre order is at gamestation. What a fool I am. I have a credit note too, so I can only really buy it there....

  • Wolverfrog #8 2 years ago

    ASDA only costs £32.

  • agparrot #9 2 years ago

    Do they not have Morrisons in Brighton?

    Lazy EG!

  • giant_frying_pan #10 2 years ago

    jonsaan, won't GameStation price-match local shops? Return it for credit, price-match, re-buy. Done!

  • KingOfSpain #11 2 years ago

    @EarlBassett

    If you don't like them, don't click on the bloody link!!

  • HL706 #12 2 years ago

    @Wolverfrog

    Whs - just back and it only cost me £32.

  • crwoody #13 2 years ago

    @EarlBassett

    Stop. Reading. about. this. game.

  • Mercatoria #14 2 years ago

    what's the time limit on the sainsbury deal?

  • bdaggers #15 2 years ago

    Saved a penny at Morrisons. And Sainsburys was sold out at 9.30am.

    Update the title EG !!!!

    Silly Tesco and their £25 but buy another chart title BS. They've got loads of stock.

  • Zomoniac #16 2 years ago

    15 MW2 stories plus a giant advert on the front page.

    The cynic in me would suggest the two are linked...

  • stevetuck #17 2 years ago

    SIMPLES!

  • Dyason #18 2 years ago

    Just got mine from Tesco for £25! Bargain!

  • linksdad #19 2 years ago

    Those pesky supermarkets certainly make a mockery of any of the value pre order deals.

    Good news for 2nd hand though, I would have thought. If you can buy brand new for £26 it sort of sets the ceiling for what a retailer can charge for a used copy.

    Also shatters Kotecks dream to see this as the most expensive game of the current crop. HA.

  • giant_frying_pan #20 2 years ago

    There are no other links to click though.
    Everything is MW2

    Current front page: 28 headline stories.

    Number of non-MW 2 stories: 19 (more than half).

    9 ≠ everything.

  • Mooglepies #21 2 years ago

    Still looking for a good (sub £30) deal on the PC version.

    I have a feeling I may be looking for a while.

  • KingOfSpain #22 2 years ago

    @EarlBassett

    In that case, why don't you go elsewhere? Nobody is forcing you to read every EG news story.

    If you click on the news and then make a comment about it you are giving EG more page hits, meaning they will continue publishing more stories about it.

  • bad09 #23 2 years ago

    "Also shatters Kotecks dream to see this as the most expensive game of the current crop. HA."

    See you are missing the point (like many who think they have a "bargain".) Koteck IS laughing because the retailers paid him what he wanted but took a knock themselves for you. They can do it for COD because you are all scrambling over each to get it. Other games you won't be so lucky....

  • stevetuck #24 2 years ago

    quick someone set up a comparethewarfare.com

  • ps3owner #25 2 years ago

    @link'sdad

    I doubt that. this is the early bird deal and once it has run out they'll crank it back up to 44.99 or whatever and the 2nd hand deals won't be much below that figure. COD4MW took forever to come down in price as well.

    makro do it for £20... interesting. might just check that one out since I didn't manage to get a copy from sainsbury. + as before, how long do they offer it for that much money? since it's out of stock online as well offline ;)

  • Benno #26 2 years ago

    Step 1: Buy for £26 from supermarket
    Step 2: Sell to CEX for £35
    Step 3: Make £9 profit per unit

    http://ww w.cex.co.uk/products/Gaming/Con...

  • kangarootoo #27 2 years ago

    My solution is simpler (though only because I'm only interested in the single player mode).

    Wait till everything calms down a bit. Rent game for a weekend. Finish it. Return it.

    Total cost, £5 (or less if I get it via Lovefilm).

  • SirDespard #28 2 years ago

    Local Tesco in Worcester was £39.76, so popped to Morrisons next to work

  • costa_k #29 2 years ago

    Got mine from ASDA last night for £32

  • JaysonG #30 2 years ago

    Got mine at Makro.

  • Jamiesan #31 2 years ago

    first in the queue outside the big ol' sainsburys in hayes. they had the mw2 stand near the doors so we could all watch as the staff took over half the ps3 copies for themselves before opening! once they opened, grabbed a copy then the hundred or so people behind just fuckin stampeded in and took out the whole stand - people diving to grab copies off the floor, it was pretty funny

  • schnide #32 2 years ago

    This article in the stream of MW2 coverage is kinda starting to take the piss now..

  • huckan #33 2 years ago

    I just went into Morrisons and got it for 25.99

  • insincere_dave #34 2 years ago

    Can't til tonight when we start getting the bleating from the specialist store owners complaining about the number of return requests they're getting.

  • drumbot #35 2 years ago

    Just got mine from morrisons for 25.99!

  • crwoody #36 2 years ago

    @SirDespard

    I just got back from the Tesco in worcester (st. peters) and they have none left.

  • DangerM0use #37 2 years ago

    Me too! Morrisons FTW

  • crwoody #38 2 years ago

    Don't even know why I was looking as I bought mine last night from Gamestation.

  • secombe #39 2 years ago

    Good news for 2nd hand though, I would have thought. If you can buy brand new for £26 it sort of sets the ceiling for what a retailer can charge for a used copy.

    When Play were selling GTA: CW for £9.99, the likes of Gamestation were still giving £12-15 for it.

  • nickal47 #40 2 years ago

    If you didnt get arseholes going in and buying 10 copies to flog on ebay/cex etc and therefore driving the price up then these supermarkets wouldnt be sold out and there would be enough copies for everyone at these prices - shame the odd arrogant few are so desperate to make an extra £20/£30. I already have my copy from sainsburys so no sour grapes from me - just think its out of order - heard stories of people buying 13+ copies from morrisons. No different from ticket touting.
    Edited by 3 at 10/11/09 @ 13:24

  • Chikken #41 2 years ago

    Just bought my copy for £26 from Sainsburys in Hempstead Valley, Gillingham. One per customer so I got my Nan to get another copy for my brother. It's a steal at that price!

  • moggsy #42 2 years ago

    Just got mine from Morrisons - they had shed loads of stock left too (loads on shelf plus several boxes on floor). Seems like one of the few companies who are backing up their deal with a significant amount of stock.

  • rotmm #43 2 years ago

    Morrisons here too. Popped in there to pick up a loaf of bread, saw the queue at the electronics checkout, had a nosey buchers to see how much they were charging (had no intention to pick it up just yet... too many other games unfinished), saw it was £25.99 and decided it was too much of a bargain to miss. Lots of copies left too.

  • keano #44 2 years ago

    yer got the 26 deal from sainsburys at opening time lol.......already sold it on for £40 :)

    not really my game but couldnt miss chance to make bit of beer money

  • actionfitz #45 2 years ago

    "where the game sells for £44.99"

    /facepalm.

  • superdelphinus #46 2 years ago

    when I went into Game last week, pre-owned MW1 was still more expensive (£35) than a lot of the new titles. crazy really. It's not going to be sub-£40 anywhere for long is it

  • bad09 #47 2 years ago

    @ nickal47

    If FIFA 10 was anything to go by those 13+ buys were the local games shops! Some even owned up to buying up the supermarket stocks to hold then charge full whack when the deal finished as it worked out cheaper than buying at cost.

  • BillyBrush #48 2 years ago

    Erm...the prices in this article seem to be completely wrong.

  • nickal47 #49 2 years ago

    @ bad09

    If thats true then that is bang out of order - surely trading standards would be interested to hear about that?

  • snick #50 2 years ago

    There were still about 10 Xbox copies in Sainsburies Hammersmith 35 minutes ago when i picked mine up. None for the PS3 though.

  • superdelphinus #51 2 years ago

    "If thats true then that is bang out of order - surely trading standards would be interested to hear about that?"

    why?

  • bad09 #52 2 years ago

    @ nickal47

    Yeah pretty crap I was disgusted when I read that, another good reason for Steam :)

    Not sure on the legal side TBH, can anyone shed light on that?

  • prettyboytim #53 2 years ago

    I bought mine from Brighton Sainsbury's on my way to work. It was pretty funny. The queue at the till was a weird mix of old folks getting their shopping done early and 20s and 30s men looking slightly sheepish.

  • nickal47 #54 2 years ago

    @superdelphinus

    I'd be amazed if that is legal.

  • mattyduk #55 2 years ago

    got my 360 version from Morrisons for £25.99. Guy on the checkout was very enthusiastic showing me the draw full of PS3 versions, and how few he had left of the 360 version. Lots of ebayers (sorry, committed game players) buying two copies.

  • BadDevotions #56 2 years ago

    i got mine from js for £26 but was told i could only buy one copy. I tried to get another for a colleague at the same time who was in a meeting at the time, but was told NO.

  • GamerG #57 2 years ago

    I actuall;y feel sorry for companies like HMV getting stiffed by activision and the supermarkets, tonnes of copies in the store I went to that will have to be sold of cheap

  • superdelphinus #58 2 years ago

    i don't see why it wouldn't be legal - whoever bought the game would then own legal title of it to do away with however they wanted, and the shop has a licence to sell it so way hay. prolly agaisnt some sort of practice document somewhere though

  • el_pollo_diablo #59 2 years ago

    I'm eating a pizza right now. Got it with a pudding for £5.

  • Buztafen #60 2 years ago

    £25.99 from Morridogs. I reckon the supermarkets will have a good couple of days sales at these prices but by the weekend the prices in shops like GAME and HMV will be quite competitive.

  • SlackMaster #61 2 years ago

    @ Buztafen

    Unlikely. The supermarkets will only sell at those prices for a couple of days and you can bet Game are buying up lots of copies from supermarkets to sell on when the price rises again.

  • owl #62 2 years ago

    got it from tesco with sega megadrive collection for about £40. i haven't even touched modern warfare, i've been playing sonic all morning : /

  • spidermanalf #63 2 years ago

    Do you think this tyoe of thing is going to be the death knell of pre orders on websites?

  • el_pollo_diablo #64 2 years ago

    @ spidermanalf

    I hope so. Preorders are, quite literally, the biggest con since snake oil.

  • Dark_Stranger #65 2 years ago

    smyths @39.99 and although normally wouldnt hesitate to pay this for a game, I do feel cheated at not being able to get a copy from Sainsburys, Asda, etc

  • Masterless #66 2 years ago

    Is anyone still holding firm on the boycott and not buying it (PC version) ?

    I'm proud that I am. I will be playing it single player however and sticking to the above ;)

  • SlackMaster #67 2 years ago

    I'm not buying the console version as I don't want to fuel Acti's greed with their little price hike. Although I can get it a lot cheaper I don't want to validate that by buying a copy.

  • collateral89 #68 2 years ago

    i got myn from asda it was 32pound

  • HotshotLemming #69 2 years ago

    just picked one up from Sainsburys £26, still got a few left

  • Petulant_Radish #70 2 years ago

    The sainsbury's price is not a timed offer apparently, that's now the set price of the game

  • GaidenZero #71 2 years ago

    I was always going to buy this game, but not at anything like £40-45. I figured I'd wait until the price came down next year, but as someone mentioned the first MW took an age to come down in price and just a couple of months ago was still costing about £25 pre-owned!!

    It reached a price I was willing to pay much earlier thanks to Morrisons.

    I truely believe that once the supermarket price war is done (this week), this game wont be £26 again for the next year.

  • Embattle #72 2 years ago

    The price will increase in supermarkets in a few days I suspect, even if they don't they won't get any more stock right away thus they sort of give the feel good factor while avoiding having to pay for it. The simple fact is they are loosing money on each copy they sell but they are just trying to drive people in to there stores, people can be as childish as they like about ShopTo's price but they aren't a charity nor can they sell tins of bins to cover the cost.

  • soulshadow #73 2 years ago

    £30 from Costco, plenty in stock

  • TheVoice #74 2 years ago

    @ bad09
    Yep, A guy waiting in line at Sainsbury's this morning said he worked for CEX, and that his manager had bought a load of cheap FIFAs only to sell them in his own store.

  • iLoxy #75 2 years ago

    Sainsburys is only out of stock from their online store.

    If you live in the Guildford area, check out Sainsburys in Guildford and/or Godalming...plenty on shelf, still at £26 (today only methinks

  • Petulant_Radish #76 2 years ago

    [link url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/money /2009/nov/09/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-price-war
    ]http://ww w.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/nov...[/link]

    Sainsbury's spokesperson says not limited offer, though that could mean just a longer period of sales at the £26 mark, reverting back to RRP later on, but it would seem that it is going to be that price for a little while yet.

  • BREEAMER #77 2 years ago

    Makro £20 - got it at lunch time. How on earth can Game justify £44.99?!?!?!?!?!

  • nickal47 #78 2 years ago

    If amazon can do it for £33 then Im sure other online retailers could have followed suit.

  • WiseGuy #79 2 years ago

    Got my mum to pick this up for me from Morissons for £25.99 (been about 15 years since i have had my mum buy "toys" for me but needs must eh)

    Would love to know if the supermarkets do gain impulse other sales from this - cant see it myself!

  • keano #80 2 years ago

    haha my last post about selling on the game got serious abuse -13 :s

  • schmung #81 2 years ago

    Grabbed mine from Morrisons at lunchtime. Five 360 and eight PS3 copies left by the time I grabbed mine. Bloke there said they'd shifted over a hundred on each platform. Pretty impressive stuff.

  • GaidenZero #82 2 years ago

    @WiseGuy - not exactly an impulse buy, but I picked my missus up some Always Ultra at the same time :) hahaha.. quite the combo. Did also buy a full tank of petrol for nigh-on £50 so they did alright from me (usually get my petrol there anyway, but still)

  • thebuzzard #83 2 years ago

    No Sainsbury's near me but picked it up from Asda on PS3 for £32. So much for the new high RRP.

  • darkmorgado #84 2 years ago

    Just got my copy from Morrissons in Northampton. I managed to get the last one (had to get it on PS3 as they had sold out of 360)
    Was quite funny actually. The woman in front of me tried to buy three copies only to be told "only one per person".
    And there was some sort of guerilla operation going on - one guy had taken loads of copies off the shelf and had hidden them around the store to try and stop people using underhand tactics to get loads of copies of it.

  • robg #85 2 years ago

    I +1'd Chicken just for mentioning Hempstead Valley. That was my local out-of-town shopping centre growing up, ah, happy days!

  • Ocrovastru #86 2 years ago

    Hang on a cotton picking minute!

    Not one but TWO fellow Worcesterites in here today! Whats going on.

    I am looking at you SirDespard & Crwoody.


    Morrisons have many left in stock?

  • emhaslam92 #87 2 years ago

    my local sainsburys doesnt stock games. i did however order off their website for £26 this morning with free next day delivery :D

  • owl #88 2 years ago

    Would love to know if the supermarkets do gain impulse other sales from this - cant see it myself!

    i did buy a bottle of water (i had just run six miles to get there (well, i was going running anyway, so . . .))

    that's 40 pence!!

  • crwoody #89 2 years ago

    @ Ocrovastru,

    Worcester has found the interwebs!

  • Mkwone #90 2 years ago

    Got mine from Sainsburys near derby (Wyvern if anyone knows it) Seeing as it's in an out of town shopping area just ooff a main route into derby i founf it odd seeing people in suits queing up for a game.

    Never felt so mature buying a game before.

  • robg #91 2 years ago

    I went to Wyvern at lunch Mkwone, all gone. Or did they have some behind the counter?

  • Mkwone #92 2 years ago

    @robG

    this maybe a bit specific(sorry everyone else) but when i went the shelves were bare, asked customer services and you have to go to aisle 34 i believe opposite the tellys. they have tills there and had a big box with them in and trollys behind the tills.

    They really should of put a sign up as as i was leaving i had to tell other people where to go.

    Good luck, just counting down the minutes untill i've finshed work :D

  • makeamazing #93 2 years ago

    Well Asda well and truely screwed me... we preordered, rang them up this morning and the stock hadnt come in, they said it would be in later today, so we said, well thats ok, so you will have our pre-order then... "Sheepish... No". We are not honouring pre-orders... first come first served... absolutely rubbish... not that bothered as i can get it elsewhere very easily... but i might complain just because its a poor show and i dont like gamers getting shafted.

  • nothing14 #94 2 years ago

    My 5 local morrison's is all out of stock on MW2, so pissed atm lol

  • makeamazing #95 2 years ago

    The stores hardly purchased any stock.. so if you want the game you need to goto game or blockbuster etc. The price cutting was just for PR and getting people in store, which seems abit rediculous because all it does is mean you have angry/upset people in store when they cant get the product thats advertised at the cheap price. If you are really wanting the game, then i suggest a normal game store/blockbuster.

  • freakzilla #96 2 years ago

    nearly made me go to a midnight launch.

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  • Embattle #98 2 years ago

    i did buy a bottle of water (i had just run six miles to get there (well, i was going running anyway, so . . .))

    that's 40 pence!!

    You may not buy right away but they aren't always hoping for an immediate result but instead hoping you'll come shop again with them at a later date.

    As someone else has pointed out and I did as well, the price may well stay low for a while but very little stock will be made avaliable at that price point then suddenly a restock will appear once it goes up again.

  • Ducklord #99 2 years ago

    The sainbury's near me has just restocked (quite substantially apparently) after selling out this morning, still the same price. Might be some hope for others?

  • timberwolf #100 2 years ago

    just bought it from tesco + dragon age for £65. good deal.

  • MARKIV #101 2 years ago

    The Sainsburys near me were also selling PS3 slims for £199 and Wii's for £135. Don't think the Wii was the Wii Sports Resort version though.

    Do feel abit sorry for HMV, Game etc though.. LOL!

  • SexySquirrel #102 2 years ago

    Girlf works at Sainsburys and starts work at 6 a.m got me mine first thing this morning with 15% staff discount so was £22. Well happy :) they'd all gone within half an hour ...

  • AkralC #103 2 years ago

    As I was paying my £32 for my copy of MW2 at ASDA another member of staff asked the guy behind the counter if there were any left for another customer but mine was the last. I was constantly looking behind as I left the store.
    Edited by 1 at 10/11/09 @ 21:06

  • Nephirion #104 2 years ago

    pirate bay have it for free.

  • Phryxus #105 2 years ago

    Gamestation's official price is £44.99, but my local store (Reading) agreed to price match with Morrisons for both PS3 and 360 versions. They knock a pound off too, so if you put up a fuss and make them phone Morrisons to confirm their price you can get it for £25. Just be warned it has to be in stock in the store you want them to price match, otherwise they'll refuse to give you the cut price.
    Edited by 2 at 11/11/09 @ 02:17

  • Embattle #106 2 years ago

    Any price match tends to hinge on the local stores having it in stock.

  • Tyronne #107 2 years ago

    I was pretty lucky to pick up a copy in the Chelmsford branch of Sainsburys yesterday, as it was 4 in the afternoon and at the time I got there, surprise surprise there was none left.
    So me and my and gf decided to pick up something for dinner whilst in there and just as we were paying for it, the voice over the tannoy system said that copies were aviliable at the entertainment kiosk.
    We finished paying and walked over to the kiosk and there was already a queue including people who had left coffees in the cafe to pick up a copy.
    Funny thing was that the number of workers who came over and asked for copies of the game to put put behind the counter for them, some shouted across from the aisles resulting in cries of `360` and `ps3` coming in from nowhere.

    I was going to avoid this game due to the high price but at £26 quid,I could hardly say no.

    So much for my morals I suppose.