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God Of War Collection Not Confirmed For Australia

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2:00PM September 2, 2009 | David Wildgoose

That God Of War Collection announced yesterday for PS3 isn’t yet confirmed to make it to Australia, Sony told me this morning.

It seems the high-def re-release of God Of War 1&2 bundled together on one Blu-ray disc is for North America only… at least for now.

When asked about the Collection, Sony Computer Entertainment Australia told me this morning:

“In regards to yesterdays God of War announcement out of the US yesterday, we are looking at the viability of making God of War I and II available to play on PS3 in Australia and will provide further information in due course.”

There’s still a couple of months before the US launch, so—fingers crossed—we’ll be able to import a copy buy a local release around the same time.


Comments

  • Daniel

    September 2, 2009 at 2:05 PM

    The PS3 is region free, I dont see why it matters if “they” release it or not.

    • Zhabroah

      September 2, 2009 at 2:11 PM

      Exactly. It doesn’t matter if “they” release it or not as with PS3 games being region free you can just import it. Actually, at US$40 plus maybe US$10 for shipping that’d work out at around A$62.50 which would probably be cheaper than the release we’d get here anyway so no matter what importing would be the recommendation.

    • dzc12

      September 2, 2009 at 2:33 PM

      Actually dude, some games & blu-rays are region encoded. Doubt they’d do it for this title but it does exist.

      • Austin

        September 2, 2009 at 2:55 PM

        We’re the same Region as Europe for Blu-Ray, worse case scenario is you get shipped from the UK.

      • Gabe

        September 2, 2009 at 3:02 PM

        Some blurays are region locked true. There have been zero region locked PS3 games. It’s one of the distinguishing features of the PS3 platform.

      • NegativeZero

        September 2, 2009 at 4:44 PM

        Bluray regioning is part of the Bluray video specification. Games are distributed on Bluray, but they’re not video, so they don’t have the same regioning restrictions.

        Just like a normal PC DVD doesn’t have a region, but a DVD movie does (unless your DVDs are supplied by terrorists :P).

    • Trent

      September 2, 2009 at 11:21 PM

      It would be nice to not have to go through the trouble of importing though.

  • DavDav

    September 2, 2009 at 2:06 PM

    “we are looking at the viability of making God of War I and II available to play on PS3 in Australia”

    I’m really hoping that doesn’t mean that the US version of this will be region locked. I mean, I know they can do it, but are there currently any PS3 games that are region locked?

    • Indefinite Implosion

      September 2, 2009 at 3:33 PM

      I’m fairly sure they won’t region lock it as it seems to be “their” policy not to.
      Just look at Rock Band; that was exclusive to the US for nearly a year(or a long time) and while they could’ve region locked it to prevent people importing they didn’t, so my estimated guess is that they wont.
      :)

  • CloneTrooper

    September 2, 2009 at 2:23 PM

    Cool, another reason to pick up a Slim now…never played these so it’ll be good to give em a go now.

    Either way, Im sure we’ll be able to get it somehow.

  • Ingram

    September 2, 2009 at 2:28 PM

    Maybe because it’s a PS2 port it will retain region locking?

    Retarded I know…

  • Sam Lawrence

    September 2, 2009 at 2:33 PM

    Better bloody be able to get this!
    Import or not I dont care I want it!

  • Dutch

    September 2, 2009 at 5:15 PM

    Sony must bring GoW Collection to Australia or I will cry!!!

  • Sticks38

    September 2, 2009 at 5:53 PM

    I was planning on buying the old PS2 versions to see what God of War was all about so this collection would be sweet. Importing it would be a small pain in the arse so I hope it comes out here. Especially for the people who don’t know how to/don’t know that they can/don’t want to/can’t import games.

  • MelancholyEcho

    September 2, 2009 at 6:37 PM

    What? Australia not getting something the US gets? This is a new concept…

    As said, if it doesn’t come here (likely), we can import it.

  • Michael Rosel

    September 3, 2009 at 1:20 PM

    You know what… after the whole Rock Band incident here in Australia (it took almost 12 months to get a local release), I don’t care any more.

    Ill import it, one way or another.

  • onehappygamer

    January 12, 2010 at 10:33 PM

    mines apparently in mascot according to ups shouldnt be to long till it arrives, thankyou playasia.com

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