The recent success of the Deadpool & Wolverine movie put Marvel back in the limelight, including its long-forgotten brand deals like Activision’s Deadpool video game. Despite being delisted, the game is seeing a huge price surge as fans cash in on the Deadpool craze.
First reported by Tech4Gamers, the 2013 Deadpool game—which never received the warm reception it hoped for—has been rapidly increasing in price on third-party websites like eBay amid the enormous success of the third Deadpool movie. It has been delisted for years now because Activision no longer holds the licenses to Marvel’s properties. According to Price Charting, the game went from around $20 to $30 to upward of $150 for the PlayStation 4 version, and around $77 for its Xbox One release.
Prices are more stable for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 options but still run as high as $40, which is quite a lot for a now-defunct 11-year-old game. The Xbox 360 marketplace shut down on July 29, though it likely won’t have an impact on the game’s third-party pricing.
For those unaware, Activision developed and published a licensed Deadpool title all the way back in 2013. The game released to a lukewarm reception and has an average score of 62 on Metacritic. Players liked it a tad better than critics, and gave the Xbox 360 version a 7.4 out of 10, which isn’t half bad. Still, it never saw much success and was delisted only a year later in 2014. It made a brief comeback in 2016 but left all storefronts in 2017 and hasn’t been available since.
