God of War III: Ultimate Edition Could Ultimately be Rare
It’s become quite common for major game releases to be accompanied by some sort of limited edition alongside the standard edition of the game. With Modern Warfare 2, Activision went as far as to offer 2 special editions, a “hardened” edition and a “prestige” edition which included night-vision goggles among other goodies. Most limited, special or collector’s editions aren’t worth the added cash, but for some reason many avid gamers simply must buy what they feel to be the rarest version of the game. It seems as though the Ultimate Edition of Kratos’ latest adventure, God of War III will be another one of those rare, hard to find, limited editions, as pre-orders for God of War III: Ultimate Edition have already sold out at one major online retailer.
Despite its $99.99 MSRP, the God of War III Ultimate Edition has already sold out at Amazon.com. It originally went out of stock last week via Amazon with the $89.99 discounted price, but instead Target’s new store at Amazon.com was offered as an alternative to order for the full $99 price. Now, even that has sold out, leaving you with only the option to sign up for alerts if the game ever becomes available again.
It seems now that only brick and mortar retailers will give you the opportunity to pre-order the definitive edition of the newest installment of the God of War franchise. If you were waiting to pick it up on release date, don’t wait and pre-order now, as it may be hard to come by a copy.
If you’re skipping the Ultimate Edition and instead opting for the standard edition, Amazon.com is offering a $10 credit when you purchase God of War III at the price of $56.99, you’ll also get an Amazon exclusive in-game “Apollo Skin”. Click here to pre-order now.
10 Responses to “God of War III: Ultimate Edition Could Ultimately be Rare”
I was looking at Amazon earlier and noticed that it was unavailable. FYI if your going to order any special edition guides to go along with your game then Amazon is the place to go, only $20-$23 there and $30-$30 at Gamestop.
I meant $30-$35 and Gamestop.
I have been watching this on Amazon.ca for awhile and it still isn’t available in my country (most things aren’t anyway). The only message on there is:
“We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock”
I guess this spells good news for SONY, I mean has anyone seen articles of the MW2 special editions being sold out?
well Xael, the special edition of MW2 that came with Night Vision Goggles was very limited so I’m pretty sure those sold out, but I know a lot of retailers have dramatically dropped the price of the “Hardened Edition” and they are still just sitting on the shelves. I think that only proves that there is extremely large casual gamer following for MW2 who wouldn’t care about the collector’s items. Everyone who wanted to buy that game I think already has…
This is still great news for Sony though, I don’t know how many were actually available to begin with but I don’t think it was that small of a number. I won’t be getting the Ultimate Edition just because I don’t really care for collector’s items either. That Pandora’s Box replica looked cool, but I know it would have just sat on a shelf collecting dust.
yeah man I hear that, I can only imagine how much SONY profited off selling out of this. Now imagine GT5 special editions, this screams success for SONY.
walked into EB the other day ready to put my cash down on it until i found out the price.
250 bucks!
no, im sorry 250 bucks, i can get 4 freaking games for that price!
i seriously can not believe how much $ony is ripping us off!
the US edition comes with everything the AU edition does except GOW collection and its 100 bucks.
so why are we paying 150 bucks more?
ok the collection is in there so minus 60 bucks that brings us to 190.
now last time i checked 100USD is a LONG! way off 190AUD.
not to mention there taking out the making of documentary, so were getting less than what the US is getting and were paying 90 bucks more.
typical $ony treating the US like god and treating everyone else like the gum under their shoe.
no wonder americans think the world revolves around them, because it does!
well there certainly treated like it!
Preordered mine at eb a while ago.. cannot wait to play it!
Bah! It’s not special enough for a purchase methinks, if it included a proper Kratos figurine of some sort i’d be interested, as it stands i’d want to play the game more than anything that comes with it as that’s pretty superficial!
just the standard game for me, with 10$ off next purchase. glad to see the enthusiasm for Kratos though.