God of War Ragnarok PS5 Bundle Announced - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 October 2022 / 5,650 Views

Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Santa Monica Studio in a new trailer showcasing the PlayStation 5 features for God of War Ragnarök announced a God of War Ragnarök PlayStation 5 bundle.

The bundle will launch alongside the release of the game next month and include a PS5 console with a disc-drive, a white controller, and a digital copy of God of War Ragnarök.

View the trailer below:

Read details on the game below:

Kratos and Atreus embark on a mythic journey for answers and allies before Ragnarok arrives.

From Santa Monica Studio comes the sequel to the critically acclaimed God of War (2018). Kratos and Atreus must journey to each of the Nine Realms in search of answers as they prepare for the prophesied battle that will end the world.

Together, Kratos and Atreus venture deep into the Nine Realms in search of answers as Asgardian forces prepare for war. Along the way they will explore stunning, mythical landscapes, gather allies from across the realms and face fearsome enemies in the form of Norse gods and monsters.

As the threat of Ragnarök grows ever closer, Kratos and Atreus find themselves choosing between the safety of their family and the safety of the realms…

Those Who Break Fate

Atreus seeks knowledge to help him understand the prophecy of “Loki” and what role he is to play in Ragnarök. Kratos must decide whether he will be chained by the fear of repeating his mistakes or break free of his past to be the father Atreus needs.

Weapons of War

The Leviathan Axe, Blades of Chaos and Guardian Shield return alongside a host of new abilities for both Kratos and Atreus. As they take on gods and monsters from across the Nine Realms, Kratos’ deadly Spartan skills will be tested like never before as he fights to protect his family.

Explore the Realms

Journey to dangerous and stunning landscapes while facing a wide variety of enemy creatures, monsters and Norse gods as Kratos and Atreus search for answers and allies.

God of War Ragnarök will launch for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 on November 9.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

49 Comments

darthv72 (on 13 October 2022)

...and still missing the opportunity to release a themed system. They could have at least included the themed controller in this one.

kazuyamishima darthv72 (on 13 October 2022)

Why?

It will sell like hotcakes

V-r0cK darthv72 (on 14 October 2022)

Agreed. My only guess is that since production of the regular PS5 is already difficult enough they probably dont want to add more to the mix by adding new themes for a handful to be made. Sony was all over the different themed consoles and controllers last gen.

DonFerrari V-r0cK (on 14 October 2022)

I don't think themed covers would impact the production since I believe the constrains is on chip availability and that isn't changed by colors of the cover.

xMetroid V-r0cK (on 14 October 2022)

Not really, it's been reported they have a huge amount of stock coming for the holiday season and shipment was massive in september (mainly for inventory stock, probably for GoWR release). So i'm sure they could have pulled off a collector edition even if it was supply constraint. Different plates and adding the GoW controller wasn't really hard to do tbh. They just know they will sell them anyway so they didn't bother.

2zosteven (on 13 October 2022)

id be happy just finding a PS5 console at msrp.

xMetroid (on 13 October 2022)

What's the point of a bundle at the same price as Console + Game and no special edition ?

2zosteven xMetroid (on 13 October 2022)

i agree! and plus its a digital copy

DonFerrari xMetroid (on 14 October 2022)

To move console and game at maximum profit..... or to get a different box.

Alistair xMetroid (on 15 October 2022)

because you can't buy the "non bundle" anywhere, not in stock, the advantage is for Sony, not for you

scrapking Alistair (on 20 October 2022)

Yeah, not having it be $10-20 cheaper than buying them separately is a bit of a dick move. But understandable, given how supply-constrained everything is.

KratosLives (on 14 October 2022)

Laziness from sony. Shame on you mr ryan.

Azzanation (on 13 October 2022)

Suprised it doesn't include the GoD Controller

pitzy272 (on 13 October 2022)

I’m confused by this decision to show the console bundle in that trailer. I can’t find any information on this bundle. Was mentioned no where on IGN, and even a Google search doesn’t bring up a single link about it. Why would they release this trailer without any information on cost and when it will even be available to purchase? Seems like this is another error by Sony. If so, how does such a large company make so many blunders? If not, then how does such a large company make so many blunders?

LivncA_Dis3 (on 16 October 2022)

Booo digital copy and it's with a fcken disc drive like what the fck?

Should've just bundled the non disc drive digital only ps5

DonFerrari (on 13 October 2022)

A good match to have both breaking records on the month. Hope there is plenty inventory.

Random_Matt (on 13 October 2022)

Artificially inflating game sales, nice.

rapsuperstar31 Random_Matt (on 13 October 2022)

That's umm kind of random there Matt...hey your name checks out.

2zosteven rapsuperstar31 (on 13 October 2022)

LOL!

Imaginedvl Random_Matt (on 13 October 2022)

How is that? If someone buys the bundle, he/she effectively bought the console AND the game too...
How is "artificially inflated"?

Azzanation Imaginedvl (on 13 October 2022)

Because people buy bundles based on deals and availability not always for the game inside.
Look at Drive Club, sold 2m and was a flop. Sold 2m because it was bundled.

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Imaginedvl Azzanation (on 13 October 2022)

True :) But at the end; they sold the game :) That a sale.

Azzanation Imaginedvl (on 13 October 2022)

Hence a Force sale yes.

Hynad Azzanation (on 14 October 2022)

It won’t be the only SKU available. Again, that negative first, objectivity second.

Azzanation Hynad (on 14 October 2022)

Mate.. there isnt any SKUs available

Hynad Azzanation (on 14 October 2022)

So you’re making your “forced sale” comment even more stupid all by yourself.

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Hiku Azzanation (on 14 October 2022)

Availability I can see the argument for. But if the only deal of a bundled game is the game, why would you buy it if you don't want the game? I believe these bundled launch games tend to cost the same as if you bought them separately.

Azzanation Hiku (on 14 October 2022)

People will buy any PS5 available, regardless of the game included. I doubt they will pass up this bundle to wait for regular stock. Especially the scalpers.

Hiku Azzanation (on 15 October 2022)

Yeah, for sure. Thats why I said I can understand the availability argument.

2zosteven Azzanation (on 14 October 2022)

this is not a deal, they are charging full price for the game here

DonFerrari Random_Matt (on 13 October 2022)

Well I bet most of the 10-20M GoW endup selling will be bundled right, perhaps that is how Sony is going to ship 30M in 2023 FY.

Vengeance1138 Random_Matt (on 13 October 2022)

Imaginedvl Vengeance1138 (on 13 October 2022)

No, that's also wrong... That's not inflated if the console has effectively been sold; how is that not new sales? You may not find it very good from Microsoft and the people who had to buy a new console because theirs broke very often; but at the end reporting those are sales is 100% accurate.

On the other hand, the consoles they repaired or sent for replacement are not counted as sales (this is pretty basic rules of sale reporting and Microsoft is a public company...).

pitzy272 Imaginedvl (on 13 October 2022)

He does have a point. If one person buys two or even three consoles but only one of them works, that does feel like artificial inflation. That being said, I’m not sure I’d expect MSFT to have done their counting differently, and the problem was much more in the poor product they released than their counting imo.

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DonFerrari pitzy272 (on 13 October 2022)

There were also claims of consoles MS sent under warranty being counted as shipped/sold. But yes if thinking about userbase it would be inflated numbers.

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Imaginedvl DonFerrari (on 13 October 2022)

Those are just claims by people speculating… Like any other rumours out there. Microsoft is a public company and unless officially stated otherwise you have to take those numbers as accurate and not rely on people coming out with hypothesis or speculations .

DonFerrari Imaginedvl (on 14 October 2022)

True thing, so unless there is credible data showing otherwise the shipped numbers from MS for X360 are trustworthy. Userbase could have been a lot smaller than the shipped amount, due to people having multiple in a single household or defectives replaced without warranty, but would still count as shipped under any reasonable argument.

Blood_Tears DonFerrari (on 13 October 2022)

There was also that time Microsoft banned 1 million X360's just before Christmas 2009 in order to sell more consoles to their existing userbase and inflating their numbers yet again.

Imaginedvl Blood_Tears (on 13 October 2022)

What are you on lol?

Imaginedvl pitzy272 (on 13 October 2022)

We are talking about sales here. Not user base. I totally agree that the issue with 360 was bad but he is simply not right about sales.

EpicRandy Vengeance1138 (on 13 October 2022)

The RROD was only present in the first 2.5-3 years and affected about 30M units to various degree but the vast majority of the systems sold after that periods only saw marginal failure rate. Plus by 2007 Microsoft had put in place the best support service ever seen in the industry most of the failed console were refurbish and found themselves on the used markets. So you are way, way overestimating the impact of replacement console in the statistics.
On the other hand Sony ps3 did also suffer significant issue as up to 12% (ylod) failure rate were reported but Sony never did extend the warranty. You could argue that Consoles bought as a replacement might have been a bigger issue regarding ps3 userbase statistics than with Xbox 360. But as Imaginedvl pointed out in the end it does not matter because 1 system sold = 1 system sold no matter the reason

DonFerrari EpicRandy (on 17 October 2022)

Reason why I would go to SW sold to see the userbase, and just as HW the SW was very close by, so whatever noise caused by failures on HW didn't really made any of the two skewed in excess of the other. Both had high attach ratio and very close HW and SW sales, with Xbox having a small advantage due to launching a year earlier (for SW that was more impactful than for HW).

Azzanation Vengeance1138 (on 13 October 2022)

Xbox lost $1.6b in RROD, if customers went out and brought a new 360 instead of claiming warranty than they would have not lost $1.6b.
Dude they literally did a doco about it.

pitzy272 Random_Matt (on 13 October 2022)

From everything I’ve found, no price was released yet, but there’s almost zero chance this will be any less than $550–same as the Horizon FW bundle. I’d actually bet 50/50 chance that it’s true full price of $569. Either way, calling this artificial sale inflation is nonsense, bc they’re charging full or near-full price to include the game.

Also, GoW doesn’t need sale inflation. GoW 2018 is around 25mil copies sold by now, and this should do similar, unless something goes wrong.

Qwark Random_Matt (on 13 October 2022)

Using a systemseller to sell systems, how dare those damn heretics at playstation headquarters.

EpicRandy Random_Matt (on 13 October 2022)

Add argue that in regard to titles that were heavily bundled at no additional cost but that practice is long gone. Don't see how it is artificially inflating things when you still pay the full price or close to and is only an option rather than bundled with every system.

DonFerrari EpicRandy (on 17 October 2022)

It is just because this time the system is sold out so if the person get to a store and there is only GoW version even if the person don't want GoW he may see himself obligated to buy it because it is the only available option.

EpicRandy DonFerrari (on 17 October 2022)

True but this will only affect sales marginally and GoW being a popular franchise, the bundle would probably sold out before the bare system does in any one store shipment. Plus as reported a few days back the situation is improving in regards to stock.

DonFerrari EpicRandy (on 17 October 2022)

Yep, any inflation on either GoW or HW would be minimal. And as someone else posted, system sellers are supposed to sell systems anyway. Being bundled just make that a little more.