Article written by Peter Chapman.
Published on 03/11/2010 at 11:15 AM.
The annual game of “watch the supermarkets kill the games industry” is upon us. Prices are going to be slashed (I’ve seen PES for £18 and Enslaved for £23 this week) by online retailers and supermarkets while specialist retailers offer incentives and bonuses.
So it’s fitting that, with the year’s biggest release (probably) just around the corner, things are hotting up. HMV are the first big retailer to break cover and announce their trade-in deal for Call of Duty: Black Ops. Trade in EA’s contemporary shooter, Medal of Honor, and you can be the proud owner of a game with a RRP of £55 for just £7.99.
With the supermarkets seemingly keen on the “with any other chart title” and the “when bought with 2100 MSP” techniques, this might be the cheapest possible price. We’ll wait and see.
Hoping for a supermarket deal, even if it’s just down to £35 or £30.
Almost cirtainly it will be 27.99 with another chart game. Noone is going to do it for £25 this time.
Got mine off Woolworths online for … £24.99 + free delivery
BOOYAH.
Not sure if the codes are still working, but ZZ018 = £20 off first purchase , XV044 = Freedelivery
Na those codes dont work anymore. Used ‘em for me and ten of my mates the day they were discovered. But anyone who trys now will get a ‘code expired’ message
I bet EA love HMV right now.
ha ha, thats true. Although they did sell 2mill copies in the uk, so they wont be too bothered, since they said quality control wasn’t all that good.
Oh yeah they do hahaha! Getting people to sell their game AND putting it on the preowned market? Well at least their sales of online pass will probably increase :/
You can get Army Men on PC for 99p at my local ASDA, bargain!
Thats awesome!
Whichever supermarket offer COD;BO without the “with any other chart title” or “when bought with 2100 MSP” catches will make a killing
No Thanks, I like MoH to much to trade it in.
Same I love the online and might be on this a lot more than Black Ops.
I think I’m almost done with it now to be honest, so I think I’ll be partaking in this offer.
tesco e-mailed me a £5 off voucher if i pre-order, bringing the price down to £34.90
Best normal purchase price I’ve seen is £29.99 PC and £34.90 consoles at Tesco Entertainment when using the discount code CODPreOrder-1 (£5 off)
yeah, I used that too. Won’t be able to play it straight away anyway, so thought might as well pre-order it, to save the fuss of going o supermarkets.
I’ve not actually gone ahead with it. Still undecided on what platform I want it on.
I’m actually tempted with PC this time (usually I go with PS3/360), especially as it is apparently getting mod support post-launch.
I’ll be doing this. Great trade in I think considering MOH is a waste of money. At least I can get something worth while playing. Cheers HMV
I’m tempted to do this. Do you just go in on the day and trade it in?
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Yeah retailers do this often. Gamestation and Game always seem to be doing it so i had a feeling that they or someone else may do it for this game.