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One box, untouched since leaving the factory 8 years ago, sold for $42,500. That’s the price of a sealed physical copy of Fortnite, the Xbox One edition from 2017 that started the battle royale craze before the world knew what was coming. This was the standard retail release, with the Storm Master Weapon Pack sticker on the cover, sealed and graded a perfect Wata 10 A++.

Bidders went over $40,000, lured in by the nuances that make a simple game case a collector’s item. In their September 2025 report, Wata Games graded it mint, the highest grade given to any Fortnite version. Boxes like this are rarely seen unopened, especially when Epic Games and Gearbox collaborated on a limited edition. Fortnite was previously a paid co-op adventure where you scavenged for resources, built defenses and fended off waves of husks in a cartoonish world gone wrong.

Prices for these early copies have been rising for years but nothing prepared the market for this sudden jump. The previous record was $13,750, set exactly a year ago on November 23, 2024. Before that, sales were in the low thousands: $1,875 in August 2025, $2,500 in September 2024, $1,560 in March 2024 and $1,680 in June 2023. Opened copies sell for far less, often around $100. One with an unused Founders Deluxe code sold for $750.

Rarity is the key here, plain and simple, as Epic only released a handful of physical copies before switching to digital downloads and the battle royale mode in 2018. The expensive (to say the least) “Save the World” campaign represented by this CD is now overshadowed by a free game that anybody can play, making early relics even more valuable.
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