{"id":650420,"date":"2026-06-21T10:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T10:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650420\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T10:46:15","slug":"playstation-players-stung-by-80-price-tag-for-16-year-old-call-of-duty-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650420\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Players Stung By $80 Price Tag For 16-Year-Old Call of Duty Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The Call of Duty franchise is back to its usual tricks as Black Ops 7 enters its twilight period, releasing two classic titles on PlayStation 5. But there&#8217;s a huge caveat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Every year, <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/games\/call-of-duty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Call of Duty<\/a> players are hit with a $80 fee to continue playing the most up-to-date release, and attention has begun to be diverted towards its next annual release with <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/news\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-trailer-936580-20260528\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Modern Warfare 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">But before the next instalment in this lucrative franchise arrives, two of the greatest games that the series has ever made are being re-released on PlayStation 5, as <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/news\/platform\/playstation\/call-of-duty-black-ops-remaster-161393-20260609\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black Ops 1 and 2 are being ported<\/a> to Sony&#8217;s modern consoles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The news broke the internet, with the announcement being Treyarch&#8217;s most-liked tweet of all time, dwarfing that of the next game trailer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">However, it has now been revealed that this new port will cost players a pretty penny.<\/p>\n<p>Black Ops 1 and 2 PlayStation Ports Cost $80 Each<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Ahead of the arrival of both the Black Ops 1 and 2 ports to PlayStation, Activision tweaked the pricing of their old-school games on the Xbox store &#8211; currently, the games are available to play on Microsoft&#8217;s products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">According to CharlieIntel, the base games are being priced at $40 each. Then there are individual DLCs priced at $10 each (four each). As a token of goodwill, the microtransaction skins and camos have been made free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The games will also be strict ports of the original product, not remastered titles, meaning it&#8217;ll be the same game you grew up playing 16 years back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">All in all, if you&#8217;re buying just one of these games in its fullest form, it&#8217;ll cost you more than Black Ops 7.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Image\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0YmMxODc2MTUyZmNkOWYwNy9ibHQzMTc3ODM0.webp\"\/>Activision<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">These aren&#8217;t the official pricings, but having been altered on Xbox, it seems likely that PlayStation will match it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">And for those who bought the games back in 2010 and 2012, it&#8217;s also likely that you&#8217;ll still need to buy the new ports, as this isn&#8217;t a backwards compatibility upgrade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Sony and Activision haven&#8217;t announced any cross-buy or free-upgrade program for the Black Ops ports so far, either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">There is a chance that these games get a huge discount, though, or some kind of free trial at least, knowing how popular they will be for the right price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Still, there is a lot of content crammed into these games that will all become playable again. With stellar campaigns, great multiplayer, and arguably the best Zombies experiences ever made (with up to 7 maps in each title), there is enough to justify a $40 fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">But in a <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/news\/aaa-games-launching-september-avoid-gta-354681-20260611\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">year crammed with releases<\/a>, such a high price tag will surely put players off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Read Next: <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/news\/platform\/xbox\/xbox-call-of-duty-underrated-entry-free-216528-20260618\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xbox Users Can Now Play Call of Duty\u2019s Most Underrated Entry For Free<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Call of Duty franchise is back to its usual tricks as Black Ops 7 enters its twilight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19422,59,954,622,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-650420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-call-of-duty","tag-gb","tag-playstation","tag-sony","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}