Sony first announced the Ratchet & Clank Collection back in March, and finally set a North American release date last month. Come August 28th, players will be able to snatch up the set for for a cool thirty bones. As it turns out, the Lombax and his robot sidekick won’t be alone — Sony is launching an entire line of PlayStation Collections, with God of War and inFamous rounding out the first batch of releases.
Sony, of course, is no stranger to these sorts of collections, and has already released several of them: the Jak & Daxter Collection, the Sly Collection, the Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection and two previous God of War collections. That said, the publisher appears to be rededicated to the initiative — in addition to the three sets debuting on the 28th, more such collections are in line to be announced in the coming weeks, with the next batch of titles slated to hit retail this Fall.
As with Ratchet & Clank, the God of War Saga and the inFamous Collection will both sell for $29.99 — a great deal when you remember that Sony’s previous collections all started out at $39.99. For that matter, unspecified titles from each release will be made available to purchase individually on the PlayStation Network (remember, though, that PlayStation Plus subscribers can already score a free copy of inFamous 2). We’ve already covered the contents of the Ratchet & Clank Collection, but check out the details on the other two collections, and all the box art, below.
God of War Saga
- God of War
- God of War II
- God of War III
- God of War: Origins Collection (which includes God of War: Chains of Olympus and God of War: Ghost of Sparta)
- Exclusive Bonus Content
- Voucher For 1 Trial Month of PlayStation Plus
- Remastered for HD, DUALSHOCK Control, Full PlayStation Network Trophy Support and 3D (3D supported only in God of War: Origins Collection)
inFamous Collection
- inFAMOUS
- inFAMOUS 2
- inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood
- Extra missions
- Additional character costumes, power ups and weapon styles
According to the PlayStation Blog, each retail package will include “a few additional goodies to make it worth your hard-earned cash,” though the PSN games will be, regretfully, goodie-free. Such is life.
It’s nothing new for a publisher to try and make a few extra bucks off its back catalog — goodness knows, Nintendo’s been doing it forever — but Sony’s approach (simultaneous retail and digital releases, discounted prices, remastering where appropriate) is, in my estimation, currently peerless. The idea that a video game receives a single retail release, to be potentially followed at some distant point by a full price digital release, is simply archaic — no other branch of popular entertainment operates that way, and console games shouldn’t either. Kudos to Sony for adapting to a changing marketplace. Let’s hope Microsoft and Nintendo are paying attention.
Ranters, what do you think of Sony’s new line of PlayStation Collections? What other PS2/PS3 games would you like to see added to the series? Should PSOne games get the same treatment? Let us know in the comments below.
The God of War Saga, inFamous Collection, and Ratchet & Clank Collection all launch August 28, 2012, for PS3.
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Source: PlayStation Blog
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Oh man this is great news for me. I had recently sold all my ps3 games and just now started collection all over again and just today I almost purchased god of war 3 for 15 dollars at gamestop I’m happy I didn’t. Now I kind of wanna wait for the uncharted triple pack or something else. I just rebought the orange box and the ico and shadow of the colossus collection. I love packs like these to save me more rom on my selves.
? why did you sell games to re buy? that seems a waste.
This is good for the gaming community. It’s a cheap way to play a bunch of PS classics. I want collections for Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon. I don’t know why they wouldn’t; they would make a ton of money from them.
I completely agree. I would love a Kingdom Hearts Hd collection.
Please Sony do a metal gear solid next. but keep out that new raiden piece of crap.
I doubt they will be releasing another MGS collection for awhile, seeing as how the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection launched last fall for consoles and this summer for Vita. If they are going to make another one, they’ll at least wait until the next console generation to do it.
Ahh! Hate Sony so much. Picked up the two collections and 3 over the past 6 months, and NOW they put these out! Why couldn’t they have announced these a few months ago? They woulda gotten more money out of me. I ought used instead of new to save money. I woulda bought this now so I’d only have one game box. Come one game companies. Give gamers more notice time. Help us help you!
Shiz, I already got GoW HD Collection (1 and 2) for PS3 and also got inFamous 1 installed on my hard drive….idk whether to buy these collections, or buy the games seperately just to show each case…damn
Aside from my issues, I think this is an amazing deal for anyone who does not own the games. Go ahead and enjoy the classics