God of War Collection coming to PSN in November

Does the very thought of standing up, walking to your PlayStation 3 and inserting a Blu-ray disc incite utter, uncontrollable rage? In an effort to counter vengeful rampages against Sony's higher management, the publisher has announced a downloadable version of God of War Collection.

Set to arrive on Tuesday, November 2, alongside God of War: Ghost of Sparta, the PlayStation Network compilation will feature the remastered God of War and God of War 2 -- both running in 720p native resolution at 60 frames per second -- but will not include any of the bonus content from the Blu-ray release.

According to the European PlayStation Blog, the greek growl-a-thons will be sold separately for €18/£14 each, or as a bundle for €30/£24. That's quite a bit higher than the cost of the Blu-ray collection, and we hope the observation won't apply to the US price when it's announced. You have enough reasons to be angry as it is -- just look at how far away the remote control is today.

God of War Collection

Reader Comments (31)

I'd rather just go buy it on the disc.

thats a huge file

my 640GB HDD in my Slim is already down to 340GBs...with more and more full titles coming to PSN, you have to wonder just when a 1TB PS3 will come out.....

I'm good with the BD copy tho....

@Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi

You've used up 300gbs? How did you manage that? I just reached the half full mark on my 120gb

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

You've only used 60 GB? My 80 GB is filled to the brim. I'm going o have to start deleting all of my demos and it's only a matter of time before I'm going to have to start uninstalling my games. I think I have 20 retail games, 12 Demos, and 3 PSN games. If you have around that amount you should be around the 80 Gb maark too.The PS3 can also be used to store muisc and Blu-Ray so 300 Gb is completely doable.

@Grey

My 80Gb has 1 GB left, im going to have to just wipe out my game utility. and re-install all the games im currently playing.

Think I got like 30 Gb in there. XD

-Damn I wish Sony would make a memory utility like my 360 has >

@Grey

I have 25 PSN games. But I don't keep demos, right after I'm done with them I delete them.

The beggining of PS2 on PSN!

@Ashkental yesssss!

@Ashkental
You're 100% right that this is where we're going with this. I'd say in a year we will be seeing many PS2 games, unaltered and uploaded to PSN "for our convenience, and for a nominal fee."

Keep in mind that Sony initially said they cut BC from the next models of PS3 to be able to drop the price of the system, so it makes perfect sense to then be able to turn around and double compound the price of the content we could no longer play because we wanted to save money (not to mention use up a TON of valuable HD space on stuff we already own on disc (my PS2 games are literally 1 foot away from my PS3)).

I love the hoops we get to jump through and just how little sense anything makes anymore.

@Lucky48

always worth upgrading your ps3 to a 500gig drive. it's easy, it's cheap, and it's relatively fast (the only 'slow' part can be backing up your current drive and restoring it, but that depends on how much data you have to begin with).

once you have a 500g drive in your ps3 you'll never understand why you didn't upgrade before.

@(Unverified)

What do you expect? Them to put games on the PSN for free?

I hope they also put the Ico/SOTC games up on PSN. Along with the disc release, of course.

I'm sure I'm one of the few, but I haven't completed these games yet. So a warning to those who are in the same boat and plan to finish these and will read the newest Game Informer - be warned. There are some spoilers in the "Scaredcow Barbecue" article. I know it's not a big deal to some but I don't like to know something before I experience it.

*Sacredcow Barbecue

@Voshempa

I'm pretty sure the cow would indeed be a Scaredcow if you tried to barbecue it.

Give me my full PS2 emulation already. Yes I know you want to sell me the same game again. Nintendo has been doing it for years.

In other news, I'm still waiting for a Chrono Cross, Xenogears and Vagrant Story PS1 PSN releases Square... + Suikoden 2 from konami

@C1

We won't get full ps2 emulation. They already gave it to us and we responded by not purchasing the system because it cost too much. They cut it, dropped the price, and now we're going down that road.

I had a BC ps3 (but now have a slim, sadly).

@ferret

They were ripping us off that is why we didn't buy it at that god awful price

I hate when they price it like that. I'd easily buy it if it was cheaper than its physical counterpart

720p? Is this a typo? The bluray version runs at 1080p.

@golfs4panzys

It's 720p native, I believe, but it might upscale to 1080p depending on your PS3 output settings.

@golfs4panzys

Interesting. I was under the impression it was 1080p native. I know that the game outputs in 1080p automatically on my TV and I have all of the resolution boxes checked. Usually most of the games that support 1080p like AC2 or Dead Space will only do 1080p if you force it to (only check 1080p). I figured since you didn't have to force it to do 1080p that meant 1080p was its native resolution. I guess I was wrong?

I wish they would do this with more games. A GTA collection would be nice.

More expensive than the Blu-Ray even though it doesn't have the bonus features and costs a lot less for Sony because there is no packing, shipping and middle-man?

Screw that.

That's still cheaper than the disc version here in Sweden, and with the ease of running it from the drive I'll probably pick it up from the store

"Does the very thought of standing up, walking to your PlayStation 3 and inserting a Blu-ray disc incite utter, uncontrollable rage?"

Sometimes...sometimes I cry myself to sleep, thinking about such a horrible thing...

I still prefer a disc in cases like this. I actually watched every bonus video on the GOW Collection disc - would be disappointed if I didn't get those on the download-only versions. Personally, it simply doesn't make sense to buy something through PSN that costs more than the Blu-ray version, with less content.

@The Pork

I agree. They need to rethink their value proposition for these disc-based titles on the PSN.

i really hope rockstar rereleases their ps2 games on blu-ray or psn. GTAIII, vice city and san andreas in one bundle. and The Warriors and Bully in another.

I don't delete demos, game installs, or any qore episode....takes no time really....then I have over 40 PSN games....took no time....the 320GB HDD in my phat took under a year to fill