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A second retailer has significantly cut its Wii U asking price. After Argos this morning cut the Wii U Premium Nintendo Land bundle to 179.99, Amazon has now gone ahead and price matched the deal. Amazon routinely does this, of course, having matched various 199.99 Wii U bundles and even …
Read More »Argos drops Wii U Premium to £180
Another console has seen its RRP significantly cut on the High Street. Argos is currently selling the Wii U Premium console along with a copy of Nintendo land for 179.99. That’s a 120 saving over the hardware’s RRP. The machine was available for as little as 200 from time to …
Read More »First Xbox One price cut appears online
Xbox One is the subject of a price cut for the first time by a UK online retailer. Zavvi currently has the standard version of the console available for just 409.99. That’s 20 off the SKU’s RRP and is – as far as MCV aware – the cheapest the machine …
Read More »Introducing the low-cost £30 Android tablet
You can now buy two Android tablets for the price of a single PS4 controller. Note, however, that while Sony’s latest joypad is an absolute joy to use, the new 30 UbiSlate 7Ci from DataWind is likely to be somewhat less rewarding. With just 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, …
Read More »Call of Duty: Ghosts – price roundup, where’s cheapest?
The big hits just keep coming this time of year and tonight it’s the turn of Call of Duty: Ghosts, which arrives worldwide at midnight. Although it will have to perform far beyond expectations to topple Grand Theft Auto V’s record-breaking 2013 performance, Ghosts will undoubtedly be one of the …
Read More »Asda confirms £39.97 price for COD: Ghosts; outlines midnight events + deals
UK supermarket Asda will be selling Call of Duty: Ghosts for 39.97 from midnight on the evening of Monday November 4th. The Hardened Edition of the game will also be on sale for 69.00 as well as COD-branded Turtle Beach headsets for 69.97. Gamers will also be able to pick …
Read More ȣ450 R9 290X arrives, gives GTX 780 and Titan cause for concern
The veil has finally been lifted on AMD’s Radeon R9 290X graphics card. It carries a price of around 450 in the UK. The cheapest MCV has seen so far is either the HIS Boost or Gigabyte variants, which can be had for around 440. On the other end of …
Read More »FIFA 14 price roundup – where’s cheapest?
One of the biggest releases of the year arrived at midnight last night, but retail is again playing it safe with its pricing for FIFA 14. Much as we saw with Grand Theft Auto V earlier this month, no-one has gone super-low on the game, with the UK’s supermarkets roughly …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V price roundup – where’s cheapest?
It could be the biggest release of all time, so has Grand Theft Auto V sent UK retail into a fierce price war? No. The truth is it’s not 2009 anymore and the days of retailers racing to the bottom are distant history. The result is that the cheapest you …
Read More »GameStop announces FIFA 14 £5.97 trade-in deal
With a little less than a month to go before its release, the battle to win FIFA 14 mindshare appears to have begun. GameStop.co.uk has revealed a similar trade-in scheme to that it is running for Grand Theft Auto V. Punters who lay down 39.97 on a copy of FIFA …
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