MW2 Prestige Edition costs USD 149

By Tom Bramwell Published 15 July, 2009

Night-vision bumps up the price.

Activision UK hasn't been able to give us a price for the Modern Warfare 2 "Prestige Edition" yet, but over in the US Infinity Ward has said that it will have a suggested retail price of USD 149.

That, in case you missed yesterday's unveiling, is largely because in addition to a limited-edition steelbook case, artbook, and download code for the original Call of Duty, you get fully working night-vision goggles and a head-shaped stand.

Also according to the Infinity Ward Twitter (thanks Kotaku), the vanilla steelbook edition will retail for USD 79.

Or you could just buy it in a normal box.

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  • Gearskin #1 3 years ago

    I bet those goggles aren't so great, considering the price. Serious kit costs a lot more.

  • Haloboy #2 3 years ago

    I'd probably go shopping at Tesco in my NV goggles. Well what else am I going to do with the damn things?

  • KillerMonkey #3 3 years ago

    That's pretty cool, actually.

  • Sir_TimAlot #4 3 years ago

    want gief want gief want gief..... heres my money

  • systems #5 3 years ago

    It's cheaper at Argos with the 20% off code (see hotukdeals).

    Don't get your hopes up with those goggles - they'll be worse than the stuff you get in those crappy home catalogues in the post.

  • monkeylite #6 3 years ago

    £55 RRP? Is Activision taking the piss here? Bleeding hypocrites. Even at £45, it is £15 too much.

  • DFawkes #7 3 years ago

    Looks like £91.08 on Google currency converter. I expect that'll probably be up to £100 here. I'd still consider it, since I'm a mug :)

  • Stiggy #8 3 years ago

    yeah, funny how this one is 20% more expensive then the last one (and most other 360 games). And they haven't managed to shoehorn a cheap crappy controller in. Yet.

  • mattigan #9 3 years ago

    If they make the 'Splinter Cell' noise when you turn them on it will be doubly awesome!

  • Koozer #10 3 years ago

    If they make the 'Splinter Cell' noise when you turn them on it will be doubly awesome!

    You mean the charging capacitor noise? Probably will.

  • keano #11 3 years ago

    i could buy the game and make a better homemade nightvision for half the price....ur basically paying tht extra for the cheap plastic casing of the "nvg"s lol

  • Darren #12 3 years ago

    Even GAME have Modern Warfare 2 listed as £54.99 RRP, with their price being £44.99 for the console versions. The PC version is £29.99 with an RRP of £10 more!!! :o

    Surely that's a pricing mistake?

  • Zomoniac #13 3 years ago

    Surely that's a pricing mistake?

    Nope. Did you not see the announcements of the Tony Hawk and DJ Hero prices? £100 for a game that is now a laughing stock, double it if you want multiplayer, and £108 for a single-peripheral (and cheap looking peripheral at that) music game. Activision are trying incredibly hard to either raise the standard price of games or bankrupt themselves. I sincerely hope it's the latter. The sooner Activision die completely the better. I'm thinking their merger with Blizzard was simply to give themselves the security of the WoW income to allow them to take big risks by trying to see if they could double the prices of their games and still sell them.

  • Artemus #14 3 years ago

    Activision know they can price rape consumers for what will almost certainly be the biggest selling game of the year.

    Even the normally great Shopto are selling for £42.99 for what I assume is the standard edition. It's bullshit.

  • BillyBrush #15 3 years ago

    I bet it's not a mistake

    they're greedy, they think they can make that, and they prob will...i'd give 39 for it but nae more, and that's top top whack imo.

    ..with 4, shops were charging 29 for second hand copies even recently, and if people are willing to pay such mental prices the odds are Acti will be able to cream a lot off the top at 45quid

  • mingster #16 3 years ago

    are they better than the x-ray specs you got in the DC magazines?

  • beastmaster #17 3 years ago

    So, with this and their proposed 'premium' online content which you have to pay for, I bet Activision will be laughing all the way to the bank.

  • udat #18 3 years ago

    That breaks my game price ceiling. I'll wait for it to be less than 40 quid before I buy it.

  • paulf #19 3 years ago

    re the pricing, I suppose the value of the game depends on whether you play just the single player or the multiplayer - if the single player mode is 7 hours then 55 quid for that is not good value. However I put in over 10 days play on the multiplayer so even at 55 quid I would say that is good value.

    However that said, it should be priced as the same as other games so 40 rrp and 30 online

  • UncleLou #20 3 years ago

    I'd pay that kind of money for a normal edition if it was the only way to avoid yet another piece of dust-collecting tat.

  • altitude2k #21 3 years ago

    Forget the "Prestige" Edition - I think it's outrageous that all the retaillers have had the preorder price for MW2 at £45. Apparently they think that because it may well be the best selling game of recent times that they can get away with smacking an extra £5 on.

    Well they can forget that - I'd rather pick this up 6 months later in all honesty.

  • asphaltcowboy #22 3 years ago

    The pricing won't be a mistake. If you go and have a browse around the shops, CoD4 is one of the only games in the entire 360 catalogue that doesn't seem to have dropped in price at all since it came out.

  • makeamazing #23 3 years ago

    With so many other games coming out towards Xmas, I can wait, in fact I will probably wait until Xmas Eve or something crazy... after last year, there is certainly no rush to go and buy them on release day.

  • attacanteblue #24 3 years ago

    Play.com has DJ Hero for 89.99. Let's move on from the Activision price bashing, shall we? No-one pays the RRP, it gets set higher to factor in price reductions by vendors.

  • Zomoniac #25 3 years ago

    Play.com has DJ Hero for 89.99. Let's move on from the Activision price bashing, shall we? No-one pays the RRP, it gets set higher to factor in price reductions by vendors.

    Great. So you can get it for the cheap price of £15 more than the RRP of GHWT with guitar, and £25-30 more than you could easily find it for on release day. What exactly about this peripheral makes it cost £30 more than the guitar?

  • BillyBrush #26 3 years ago

    Eh...

    Shops get most games for £23 roughly

    and if they get it for that a few of them will cut prices down to get loads of orders in....the fact none of them are below 44 means acti are telling their distributors (in the UK that's pinnacle, gem, and used to be e:uk) that they'll supply it to shops for probably no less than 29+ notes

    so...the fact it's expensive everywhere probably is down to the publisher...no one may pay the RRP but if the trade price is overly high no shop is going to be able to sell it at a decent price

  • kinky_mong #27 3 years ago

    £55 RRP for just the game?!

    Overrated game is overpriced.

    I'll stick to Left 4 Dead 2 and Valve's apparent "milking the fans for money" approach this Christmas thanks.

  • Spekingur #28 3 years ago

    Still. It's night-vision googles. That's going to sell it.
    I'd like to know what Ubisoft will come up with for Conviction and AC2 :D
    Probably "how to parkour for dummies" video dvd. And a one of them masks you see in the AC2 trailer.

  • VicViper #29 3 years ago

    I'll admit that the thought of the goggles sounds cool, I would never buy it certainly not at that price, I do want to play MW2 but I think I my play the waiting game on this one till the reduce the cost a bit.

  • keano #30 3 years ago

    according to play.com...splinter cell conviction comes with a torch :)......been slightly out done there lol

  • SUNDANSS #31 3 years ago

    Argos have 20% of on all their pre-ordered video games today. So instead of it being £44.99 you get it for £35.99 with free delivery. That is probably the cheapest you will get MW2 for anywhere I reckon, no way was I going to pay full price and this just shows that only idiots ever pay full wack. Enter in voucher code game20
    Most other games like Batman Arkam Asylum are just £30. Happy shopping
    Edited by 1 at 15/07/09 @ 16:50

  • WinterSnowblind #32 3 years ago

    Geez.. I'm not a huge fan of the Call of Duty series, but I've been interested in this because of the really cool limited edition. But £55 for the regular game? That's ridiculous, I understood the price hike of next gen games to £40, but I'm certainly not going to be paying more than that for *anything*, I can wait for a price drop.. I dread to see how much the prestige edition is going to cost us.

    Even Halo Wars is only £30, and that's *Halo*.

  • MiniAmin #33 3 years ago

    Call of Duty 4 sold 13 million copies. If 10% of the people who bought COD4 buy any of MW2's limited editions, then there will be well over a million MW2 limited edition copies in circulation. I don't see how such a sizeable figure could be considered limited.

    In any case, I'd prefer that the "limited" edition did not exist if it meant a cheaper price for the normal game.

    It'll be a great game, but Activision shouldn't get too confident. A RRP of 54.99 in this economy is farcical.

  • skillian #34 3 years ago

    The price doesn't matter - to be honest, even how good the game is doesn't even matter that much anymore - the brand is big enough now that this will sell millions and be one of the best-selling games of all time.
    Edited by 1 at 15/07/09 @ 17:24

  • metallicorphan #35 3 years ago

    i am up for the steelbook hardened edition just for that Call of duty 1 XBLA code...if COD1 hasn't been gimped in anyway,then i can see myself playing COD1 for a very long time...it would be great to have all the Call of Duty games on the 360 as well

  • firefly #36 3 years ago

    @skillian

    The brand? As in Call of Duty, the one they dropped from the game?

  • Artemus #37 3 years ago

    ...and then put back in.

  • trooperdx3117 #38 3 years ago

    I have to admit the idea of night vision goggles does make the package roughly 57% more awesome

  • AphoticCosmos #39 3 years ago

    Rubbish collector's edition. Let's see what it's got:
    - A big box
    - A steelbook [which you can buy separately anyway]
    - A small art book
    - NV goggles that will be poorly made and probably end up not working very well. There is no way in hell that an entire package costing $149 will have NVGs of any kind of substance or good build quality.
    - An old game.

    So you are essentially paying for NVGs that won't work well. Why bother at all?

    If you want to get a CE this Christmas, then the ACII black edition is a much nicer package. A hell of a lot more for quite a bit less.
    Edited by 1 at 15/07/09 @ 22:31

  • Nephirion #40 3 years ago

    Pricing is a joke considering the worlds economy is in recession lol

  • carlitoswagon #41 3 years ago

    EasyJet version......disc only, no box, no instructions, no stalking equipment, nothing.

    RRP £13.49

  • skillian #42 3 years ago

    Otherwise known as the digital download edition, usually more expensive than it is boxed in shops.

  • BritishBlue1 #43 3 years ago

    Another way to fleece the consumer Activision? Oh you lovable faceless multinational corporation you.

  • james-mw3-mw3 #44 7 months ago

    It's funny that Modern Warfare 3 had a major amount of leaked information revealed by the press. I'm thinking that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 leak was intentional; There wasn't any leak for this Call of Duty game, nor MW3!