 | PlayStation 3 Essentials Range Listed, Priced, Dated Written Friday, September 21, 2012 By Lee Bradley View author's profile |
Sony's Essentials range of budget PlayStation 3 games has been listed, dated and priced. You'll find a rundown below, detailing both the first and third-party titles. They hit next week (September 28th in the UK) for an RRP of just £10.21/€19.99. The Essentials range is timed to coincide with the release of the newer, slimmer PlayStation 3. Sony:
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| Forum Posts: 1 | Comment #1 by Hotaro Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 02:12:37 PM | (0)    |
| What does this mean exactly? Are we talking discounted discs or are we talking digital downloads, cause I don't know about the rest, but God of War III on PSN sounds like a dream. | ||
| Forum Posts: 498 | Comment #2 by CrazinessCake Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 02:14:33 PM | (0) |
| why, is most of the recent PSN Ps3 stuff UK only? like the summer deals? | ||
| Forum Posts: 1674 | Comment #3 by iKillEuu Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 02:14:39 PM | (0) |
| @1 It's a disk, similar to the Platinum or Greatest Hits, I think. | ||
| Forum Posts: 7873 | Comment #4 by Rawra Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 02:15:18 PM | (0) |
| They will be retail, replacing the Platinum range. | ||
| Forum Posts: 620 | Comment #5 by kakihara301 Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 02:16:48 PM | (0) |
| @1 PS Essentials are basically just a newer name for Greatest Hits. Ya know, big games that have been out for some time on the cheap. They are on physical disc. | ||
| Forum Posts: 24 | Comment #6 by Alex291190 Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 02:19:38 PM | (1) |
| £10.21 for Homefront is still too much. :P | ||
| Forum Posts: 185 | Comment #7 by ZACHSP8 Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 02:24:14 PM | (1) |
| €19.99 works out as £15.97. If they do retail for £10.21 I won't complain, I can't see them being that cheap in UK though. | ||
| Forum Posts: 1425 | Comment #8 by Lurkki91 Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 02:29:20 PM | (1) |
| Is avatar really that good to deserve to be here? | ||
| Forum Posts: 2370 | Comment #9 by darkdante14 Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 02:43:57 PM | (1) |
| @8 - Hell no. Maybe Sony just want to get some money from that utter waste of Blu-ray disk. I mean WTF? Avatar: the game? Blandity bland bland? That game was so generic and boring I could not even force myself to get half-way through. Half of the list is good, the other half is crap that didn't sale well so Sony put a word 'essentials' on the cover to make those games more appealing to the eye and hide the fact that they would be discounted anyway. | ||
| Forum Posts: 866 | Comment #10 by c1ned1ne Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 02:57:13 PM | (0) |
| @8: It's a decent 3rd Person action game / shooter. Nothing to fancy but also not your average movie tie-in. Some of those are terrible overpriced as usual considering you can get them in most bargain bins for the same or lower price. And I hardly see the reason to buy (e.g.) PoP: Forgotten Sands and Virtua Fighter 5 on disc while their PSN-counterparts are cheaper :nuts: I wonder if some some of those games will be trophy-patched up, but I guess not. | ||
| Forum Posts: 21851 | Comment #11 by mjc0961 Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 03:07:48 PM | (0) |
| I like how most of the games are shovelware or shit. What's so essential about games like EyePet and Friends and Call of Juarez? I'll tell you: it's essential that you AVOID those games. | ||
| Forum Posts: 46 | Comment #12 by Plathunt31 Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 03:17:49 PM | (2) |
| @11 i found COJ: bound in blood to be quite a decent game and an enjoyable plat. Not the greatest game ever but i have played far worse. Maybe that's just me though. | ||
| Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #13 by DarkZeroDai Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 03:51:33 PM | (0) |
| Does this mean an update is due to patch a few of these games with trophies? I can only hope so, might push me to restart and finish heavenly sword lol =P | ||
| Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #14 by DarkZeroDai Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 03:54:34 PM | (0) |
| Agree with 12. @11 my son quite enjoys the eyepet series. Still a little too young for much else though I'll admit. | ||
| Forum Posts: 262 | Comment #15 by apoc27 Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 03:55:09 PM | (0) |
| @13 Keep hoping, but it's not going to happen. I would love a trophy patch for Assassin's Creed myself. | ||
| Forum Posts: 89 | Comment #16 by Aranethon Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 04:26:55 PM | (0) |
| @15 The recent patch to MGS4 restored hope for me that they MIGHT patch Heavenly Sword sometime before the world ends. As far as Assassin's Creed goes, I'd like a plat for it, but I have no interest in collecting all those danged flags. :P | ||
| Forum Posts: 19 | Comment #17 by Naylord Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 06:00:47 PM | (0) |
| I really want sega mega drive collection. I rented the genesis collectiona nd plat'd it and it was a great game I'd love to own. If I'm going to buy it though I mise will buy a european one that I can earn a second plat on | ||
| Forum Posts: 213 | Comment #18 by SUM1SLY Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 06:04:02 PM | (0) |
| £10.21 for resistance fall of man but everywhere else i've seen it in seen it it goes for around £3-£5 or £7 at the most. | ||
| Forum Posts: 1093 | Comment #20 by The_Dark Knight Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 10:12:39 PM | (0) |
| Avatar? Really??? That game sucked balls. | ||
| Forum Posts: 771 | Comment #21 by automechtech1 Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 10:30:29 PM | (0) |
| It's a so-so list, but I can't comment on the pricing since I don't live in Europe. Most of these games would be impossible to find new over here in the States and would be cheap to buy used. Honestly, if Sony were smart, they'd put more emphasis on their Collections series, not try to push Avatar and...ugh...Far Cry 2. | ||
| Forum Posts: 38 | Comment #22 by CasaDeBen Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 11:29:56 PM | (0) |
| 20 of those games go for less than $15 in canada. Least in my parts. Used or new. Really makes no difference. All are before online codes to my knowledge. Point being its a waste of money and resources to repackage all those. Maybe in the UK you guys dont have buckets of those games sitting around in shops but we do. | ||
| Forum Posts: 833 | Comment #23 by Guimace Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 11:35:04 PM | (0) |
| Some of those games are too damn old, they don't even have trophies. If only they received a MGS4-like trophy treatment... | ||
| Forum Posts: 74 | Comment #24 by MD_91 Saturday, September 22, 2012 @ 03:26:03 AM | (0) |
| Almost all of those are overpriced. Nice try Sony, I'm sure you'll trick some people. | ||
| Forum Posts: 6 | Comment #25 by dooms day gamer Saturday, September 22, 2012 @ 04:42:54 AM | (0) |
| it may be overpriced for some,but in Croatia if you find a game for £20 you'r lucky,really lucky... | ||
| Forum Posts: 11 | Comment #26 by nitnoid Saturday, September 22, 2012 @ 05:29:44 AM | (0) |
| I don't see Catherine on that list and its been out for almost 1.5 years. Still at the $40 price tag new. | ||
| Forum Posts: 585 | Comment #27 by Wolfwood Saturday, September 22, 2012 @ 09:42:35 AM | (1) |
| Darksiders: Wrath of War? whats this i never heard of it | ||
| Forum Posts: 585 | Comment #28 by Wolfwood Saturday, September 22, 2012 @ 09:47:51 AM | (0) |
| @16 assassins creed 1 has achivements for xbox and has since release they are just flat out to lazy and focused on their yearly release to patch it for ps3(btw ima huge ac fan) @26 catherine is from ATLUS and they are like NIS America they only print a so so amount for NA and will always be high priced due to stock and rarity i got lucky and found cathernefor 20$ new at a walmart discount bin :D happy day that was | ||
| Forum Posts: 151 | Comment #29 by jbrist Saturday, September 22, 2012 @ 11:38:55 AM | (0) |
| Any idea what the cases look like? Platinum cases here in the UK look absolutely fugly, thankfully I've only got one game with the case, which is Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction, and it's a rip off since I actually took the case, which was the PROPER case to the counter, and the guy switched it for a platinum case, like seriously what the fuck?! ... But yeah, there's some games I'd get on there, so we'll see... | ||
| Forum Posts: 379 | Comment #30 by Pinhead Saturday, September 22, 2012 @ 11:59:58 AM | (0) |
| @26/28 I'm in Denmark, and they recently discounted the Special Edition of Catherine (with the pizza box, poster, coasters and T-shirt) down to about $25. I had borrowed it to try a few months back, but hadn't gotten around to buying it as I'd only found the full-price Special Edition, which was very expensive. So I snagged this immediately I'm gonna use this to get the Sega Megadrive collection as the only way to find it here is used, for $30+ and I've been wanting it for nostalgic gaming. Over half of the games on there are still awesome to play to this day, Streets of Rage trilogy FTW!!! | ||
| Forum Posts: 211 | Comment #31 by crotchbuffet87 Saturday, September 22, 2012 @ 02:28:10 PM | (0) |
| *prays for trophy patches* :P | ||
| Forum Posts: 441 | Comment #32 by plisken1979 Saturday, September 22, 2012 @ 03:56:33 PM | (0) |
| £10.21 isn't bad, but i'll always buy 2nd hand retail. wait long enough and you'll get all of the above for £5 to £8 in the shops (most already are) and you get to trade em in for even more games! why buy digital and then get nowt back?(i know like 99% of trophy hunters alread know this, but this is for those who don't) | ||
| Forum Posts: 342 | Comment #33 by DaddyGamer Saturday, September 22, 2012 @ 06:19:59 PM | (0) |
| LMAO....really? Sniper ghost warrior is on this list as an essential title? Thanks Sony. I needed a good laugh today. | ||
| Forum Posts: 213 | Comment #34 by Karlsen Saturday, September 22, 2012 @ 07:22:05 PM | (0) |
| Okay, so who did the money convertion? £10.21 is not even close to €19.99, it's €7 more than it should, what a robbery.... | ||
| Forum Posts: 497 | Comment #35 by Tranquilbez Saturday, September 22, 2012 @ 07:44:09 PM | (0) |
| Cheaper price than platnum my arse, went into K-Mart the other day and saw GOW 3 Platnum for 24 bucks, right next to it was the same game for the same price but it was the essentials one! | ||
| Forum Posts: 172 | Comment #37 by TRAGICTRIXIE Saturday, September 22, 2012 @ 09:35:56 PM | (0) |
| is this like UK only? | ||
| Forum Posts: 381 | Comment #38 by theghostsi Saturday, September 22, 2012 @ 11:08:07 PM | (0) |
| Sad thing about this most games I already own and others just never really grab my attention on their first run. Maybe down the line I pick some of these games up | ||
| Forum Posts: 20419 | Comment #39 by Terminator Sunday, September 23, 2012 @ 09:38:18 AM | (1) |
| There is a lot of rubbish in that list and the online for some of them, like Far Cry 2 and MAG, are nearly dead so getting the Platinum without boosting will be near impossible. | ||
| Forum Posts: 148 | Comment #40 by Lu81NL Sunday, September 23, 2012 @ 01:33:13 PM | (0) |
| No Uncharted 2: GOTY Edition?! | ||
| Forum Posts: 2303 | Comment #41 by guillermo Sunday, September 23, 2012 @ 07:02:19 PM | (0) |
| what about AMERICA, you know where most of the fan base is lol. jk | ||
| Forum Posts: 639 | Comment #43 by XCrownedClownX Sunday, September 23, 2012 @ 11:10:36 PM | (0) |
| I'm surprised to see Driver San Francisco on here, it's only been out for a little over a year. | ||
| Forum Posts: 1199 | Comment #44 by SoPoF Monday, September 24, 2012 @ 09:01:11 AM | (0) |
| And just two days ago, I saw a "Platinum" edition of Driver SF in the shop, so why make it ANOTHER "Greatest Hits"? Glad I got the original edition of it cheap on Amazon a while ago, fun game and I hate the Platinum games. Why put your game in an ugly box? If you want to sell it for less, just lower the price. | ||
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| Developer: Naughty Dog Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Genre: Action Release: US: November 20, 2007 Europe: December 07, 2007 Japan: December 06, 2007 |  | ||
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