Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition exclusive to HMV in UK, GameStop in Ireland

by Randy Nelson on Jul 18th 2009 2:00AM

UK retailer HMV has secured an exclusive on the Prestige Edition of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. (Y'know, the one with the night vision goggles.) The chain's online store confirms availability of the title on November 10 at a price of £149 ($243). It's noted that the edition will be in limited availability, although the limit of three to a customer is quite generous for a collector's item.

We've also received word from a retail source that GameStop will carry the set exclusively in Ireland, where it will sell for €149 ($211).

Did we mention it includes night vision goggles?

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Tags: activision, activision-blizzard, call-of-duty, call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2, call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-prestige-edition, gamestop, hmv, infinity-ward, Microsoft, modern-warfare-2, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (132)

if you buy this because it includes night vision goggles you're seriously fucking retarded

When I get my goggles, you're the first person I kill.

But my Master Chief Helmet has so much trouble seeing in the dark...

seriously you can go to god damn wal-mart and buy NV goggles for like $50

UGH VIDEO GAMES ARE TOO EXPENSIVE. SIXTY FUCKING DOLLARS. I CANT DEAL WITH THIS

*pays $200 for a game with some shitty goggles*

Goodbye horses, im crying over you. Goodbye horses. Im crying,crying,crying over youuuuuuuuooooooohhhhhoooooooo! Enjoy those night vision goggles guy!

clearly you meant to reply to blank mages post about jodie foster

I sure hope you'd buy this because of the NVG, and not because it has a metal case.

you are the problem

Umm wonder why its under the ps1 "CLASSICS"

But i'm just going to buy the hardened case at gamestop and just find the NVG for like 40 bucks or something.

I'm drawing the line at this Prestige Edition, and I'm somebody who bought the Legendary Halo 3 and the Amazon Exclusive Gears of War 2 Lancer! I'm sticking to the Hardened one because I want the original game on Arcade, plus the box art for that one is sick!

how does this make any sense when right now u can preorder it from amazon right now

The Prestige Edition? Where is it on Amazon.co.uk?

this is just idiotic. why would anyone spend and extra $100+ on something so worthless? you're just going to put the thing on your shelf and forget about it after a week, but you'll be playing the game for months. thats why i buy games, not fancy pieces of accompanying plastic.

fancy pieces of plastic that let you see in the dark!

you're only saying that because you own a multinational conglomerate and can afford such things! i love the protection from criminals and all, but spreading the wealth might endear you to the people even more ;]

The Wayne Foundation, Thomas Wayne, and Martha Wayne Foundations and myself personally donate millions to charitable organizations throughout the world! While the Martha Wayne foundation is a patron of the arts, this is hardly covered by it.

Not that you ever needed night vision, being the night yourself.

I sent this 'tip' into Joystiq yesterday. As I said in my email to them, £120 for the Prestige edition (Joystiq have it wrong in the post) is actually closer to US$175, as UK prices include 15% tax.

maybe they didn't follow your 'tip' and found better information elsewhere, hmv are gonna hike the price because they're only showing they standard copy at £40 and that's gonna get raised to £55 sooner or later, if you preorder and pay for it now you'll get it for £120, but not for long.

If only the NVG would allow me to see DSG everywhere :(

You have to let it go..

*pats on Trep's shoulder*

Step 1: Purchase sunglasses
Step 2: Print off DSG
Step 3: Stick DSG to sunglasses, facing into you
Step 4: You now have DSG goggles, and DSG is everywhere!

If only the night vision goggles would let me see DSG anywhere :(

Curses, I cleared my cache to see if the first would show up, then I came back to the page twice and it didn't show up -_-

tl;dr version: Sorry 'bout the double post.

If anyone relied on a tl;dr for 2 lines, they really need some help for their lazy ass to even scroll down the page.

Please tell me I'm being trolled.

man, fuck prestige. i was gonna buy it but fuck it now. exclusive to europe? bullshit. i have the hardened version on preorder and i might even change that to the regular version now i'm so disappointed.

im almost positive this just means in the UK, as in, HMV is the only store that will sell it in the UK and gamestop is the only place you can get it in ireland.

so..... your point is?

so it's not exclusive to europe. How could you not understand that was my point?

We will try to explain it to you one more time.

It is exclusive to HMV IN THE UK. And exclusive to Gamestop IN IRELAND!
You can still buy it in America, Canada, etc.

If you live in the UK! You have to buy it from HMV.
Oh, you live in Ireland? You have to buy it from Gamestop.

BUT IF YOU LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can buy it almost anywhere.

His point being you're a 'tard.

"How could you not understand that was my point?"

You have to be a complete moron to:
1) not read the article,
2) & then post something completely incorrect.

you are an idiot sir

GameStop in the US is taking preorders on the PE now. The system is saying its going to be $149.99 and I'm assuming we're only taking reservations for a limited time.

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=75518

For those of you who hate us at GameStop here's Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Call-Duty-Warfare-Prestige-Xbox-360/dp/B002HEWACS/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1247952136&sr=8-11

don't need NVG to play the game.. Just want the Game.

HMV has the item listed as "Deleted" now, with a line saying " Availability:
sorry this title is deleted".

So does that mean they have taken enough pre-orders or was the item pulled from stock???

Hai, im 12, and what is this? I dont even.

Wonder how much they paid to exclusively have it at their chain stores.

I just checked hmv.co.uk's site and it's showing up at £120 not £149 but it does say it's unavailable so it looks like I missed out :-(

Yup, I even told Joystiq it was £119.99 when I tipped them /sigh

Oh and it's back up for preorder again for those that missed the first wave

Any NVG that is priced at $243.....lets say $183....is going to be anything other then complete ****. So the point would be????? Now if they were bundling a $12,000 set in for $243...yah let me at the mofo. As it stands want the game. You can keep the goggles that are probably just an altered webcam with IR LEDs on it.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2008/09/hands-on-with-some-surprising-80-night-vision-goggles.ars

No, Lennoko, you included punctuation and capitalization.

If I had night vision goggles, I'd probably remove all of my light bulbs just to give myself reason to use them. And freak the hell out of guests. Particularly Jodie Foster. That would be awesome.

i dont get what that's a reference to. Panic room?

Silence of the Lambs. Buffalo Bill? No? Dammit. I feel old.

oh yeah, i guess the whole "penis between legs pretends to be moth" thing stuck in my head more than night vision goggles.

Funny, I think I repressed that one.

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