£7.66 per title, remade in 1080p.



What a time to be alive.

Heat. :smile:

1. I'll do as I please, but thanks for the concern.
2. These are remade, not remastered. They've had far more done to them than a resolution increase.

It's three games for £23, completely remade. Seems ridiculously great value to me.



I've paid £20 for a remastered film and so have many others. DVD looks like crap now and I want my films to look the best they can. Same with games. If a real classic like these is rereleased in this quality for a cheap price then I'm all over it.

Naughty Dog couldn't have spent the time designing a new Crash by the way. They don't and haven't had the rights to the Crash I.P. since the PS1. They aren't even developing this. Vicarious Visions is under Activision. Naughty Dog are working on Last of Us part 2 and Uncharted Lost Legacy. They're not sponging off your money at all. :wink:

£27.99 (rrp?) for a remastered trilogy (ps4), or you can get lego city undercover which was released a few years ago with hardly anything new, for £33+ (switch)

I was wondering how Nintendo could learn from this?

seems like a good deal.

Finally, heat!

It was at Smyths Chelmsford but the guy on till said it's national deal.

Cheap deal, no smyths near me now so gotta stick with amazon

Smyths really seem to have their act together over the last few months. Attracting a lot of custom with good deals

Do they take a deposit?

Thanks bud

Well, this is going to sell!

Hot.

I think you've replied to the wrong person..

£7.66 per title, remade in 1080p.



What a time to be alive.

Heat. :smile:

No Smyths in Birmingham City Center oddly, the nearest to me is miles away at Castle Vale, the next nearest way past Smethwick and near West Brom.

Crazy price, lets hope the remaster lives up to the hype.

Whoops.. well now you can have a thanks!

Take two... Thanks bud.

What's the best/cheapest way to buy a PS4 nowadays? Need something to play this and Yooka-Laylee on.

I have a £20 off £150 gaming spend at Tesco till spit if that makes a diff?

Nintendo could learn something from this *Cough* lego city undercover etc *Cough*

£27.99 (rrp?) for a remastered trilogy (ps4), or you can get lego city undercover which was released a few years ago with hardly anything new, for £33+ (switch)

Sweet, I have 2 in my area. I pop in over the weekend.

decent price. 25.99 on amazon if you preorder they knock £2 off at the checkout. That's if you cant find a smyths

Just cancelled my preorder from simplygames, and asked Amazon to price match this deal via email. Will update if they agree to price match or not, but likely I'm gonna have to go on a mission to one of the Smyths stores outside Birmingham City Center, likely the one in Oldbury which would be a mission from the 87 bus.

Good price, probably the best out there but it annoys me that Smyths always seem to limit their best deals to instore only so online customers get shafted and if like me you don't have a store nearby you can't benefit from these deals. They need to get with the times and treat online customers equally....

Hopefully amazon price match... had it preordered for almost a year! What a great deal for what we already know is going to be a great collection.

I truly loved playing CB as a kid, but this is one title I am hoping Sony also offer as part of their PS Plus deal! As I'll be buying the disc version I don't want to double down on the digital copy too!!

just make a free account and do the trial, ive done it loads of times

Shame it's in-store only

I bought this digital as I know I wont want to sell it and got a tenner off from the March cashback.

There is one just outside wolverhampton town centre if that helps.

Just cancelled my base order will grab this!
Thanks OP

State 'PS4' in title so it comes up in people's deal alerts

I was wondering how Nintendo could learn from this?

Is it like game where you preorder instore and they can deliver it, or do you have to collect instore?

The thing that nintendo need to learn is when they re-release a game they dont have the rrp above £35, if i wasn't clear enough for you :smiley:

Why has that got anything to do with Nintendo? It's a game that's been released on all platforms and it's sold around the same price on all platforms. In fact, there are numerous sites selling the Switch version for £1-2 less that the PS4/XO versions, although Base is the reverse. Either way, the pricing decision isn't Nintendo's.

Thanks op my local store is not far so I'll definitely be going in this week

paid 40$ preorfer on psn in december as i read the release wrong i thought it said 28th december the current year not the next year (yes its june now)

Thanks op

thanks

Thought this was out already

hulabaga!

any new regarding special case edition ?7

one In Oldbury too if that's any help

preordered in argos for £27.99 then added my £10 voucher code that argos do when you spend £100 so got it for £17.99 bargain!

why the confirmed? have people doubted you in the past op? anyway regardless, if its not on the ps1 I'll pass.

got excited until i read it's instore :'( there isn't one here. WHat other prices have people seen that are good? I saw Argos are £27.99. I was looking yesterday as really want to preorder it ready

Yes, strong reason to use "Confirmed".
The one without proof went dead cold.....
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/crash-bandicoot-pre-order-27-99-smyths-instore-only-2627593

Theres one in Longbridge right by the train station, if that's any help ☺️

Great deal, Smyths Toys doing any deals on Wipeout which comes out before Crash?

1. Don't pre-order
2. Buying ancient games "remastered" for £23 is a good deal? Oh dear...

Lego City Undercover isn't a Nintendo game, if that wasn't clear enough for you.

Pre-ordering an unlimited digital commodity is stupid, but paying to pre-order? Wow. For a website based around saving money, the attitude towards pre-ordering and console games is really really silly.

I've never played this before and was wondering if it's worth playing this (or buying for my kids)?

Don't want a backlog and trying to keep one or two games only!!

thought this was out ages ago

Thats what I think as well. Crazy to see so many people on a site for saving money going crazy over games at RRP prices. I've been saying this over and over that there needs to be a minimum cap yet I always get attacked for saying that. Its like stupidity has become a disease and it keeps spreading.

I loved Crash 20 years ago. Though why would I pay £20 for psone games no matter how good they were. I know it's now in 1080p ..... wooooooo. But it's the same game for goodness sake. Would you pay £20 for a 20 year old remastered film? Or £20 for a 20 year old remastered album? Those PS1 games are still enjoyable as they are. Have sega and Nintendo ever had to reinjuvenate the original Mario and sonic trilogies? No. they exist as they are to represent a moment in time. Naughty Dog could have spent the time designing a new Crash game rather than sponge money off us. I'll probably still buy it though, sigh.

Well, played this game some 20 years ago....there are far better games these days. I wouldn't be bothered about Crash Bandicoot today.

I played the PS1 versions of Crash Bandicoot 2 and 3 on PS3 back in 2013 for the first time and honestly thought they were more fun than anything on PS3. Very replayable games as well.

Think your price comparisons to films/games are a little flawed. Would you pay £40 for a brand new Blu-ray or album? No. But you would for a game.

Also, Nintendo *do* re-release plenty of old games. And the fact is, a lot of people who buy this may have broken/sold their PS1; not have it set up; never owned one; never played the game; want to prove there is interest so a new Crash gets made; or simply want a better-looking version.

RE: Nintendo and Sega, have you never heard of the New Super Mario Series? That series has been on everything from the DS, through Wii, Wii U, 3DS and will no doubt drop on the Switch at some point. Those games are basically just the gameplay of the 8 bit Super Mario Games with a lick of modern paint and I for one really enjoy them. One of the main places Sega are going wrong is throwing away their heritage and forever trying to reinvent the wheel with Sonic. Hoping Sonic Mania will change this but I will have to see it to believe it.

Moving back to Crash, have you actually tried playing the original PS1 games on a modern large HDTV? The early 3D of the PS1 (and the Saturn and N64 of that generation) has aged horribly and is extremely low resolution. The small CRTs of the day hid some of the graphical limitations but they do NOT hold up on modern displays despite 16 bit and debatably even 8 bit 2D games looking fine by comparison. Early 3D games like Crash need the remaster treatment the most I’d say, people forget how poor early 3D was, kind of makes it more impressive the games were so enjoyable in spite of the graphics.

Again RE your analogy popular films get remastered all the time and mostly at full price, a fair number must buy them or they wouldn’t bother, same with music by well-known bands e.g. the beatles etc….

Nothing to do with Nintendo. The price has been set by the publisher across all platforms.

1. I'll do as I please, but thanks for the concern.
2. These are remade, not remastered. They've had far more done to them than a resolution increase.

It's three games for £23, completely remade. Seems ridiculously great value to me.



I've paid £20 for a remastered film and so have many others. DVD looks like crap now and I want my films to look the best they can. Same with games. If a real classic like these is rereleased in this quality for a cheap price then I'm all over it.

Naughty Dog couldn't have spent the time designing a new Crash by the way. They don't and haven't had the rights to the Crash I.P. since the PS1. They aren't even developing this. Vicarious Visions is under Activision. Naughty Dog are working on Last of Us part 2 and Uncharted Lost Legacy. They're not sponging off your money at all. :wink:

I paid £2.50 deposit for deal in Cardiff store. £5 Discount on collection after release

I don't even pay £20 for AAA PC games - I wait until the first Steam Sale after their release. And you're trying to argue that £23 for three 20 year old games is a good deal? When Bioshock was remastered it were free on PC for owners of the original...

Not in Ballymena. £34.99 and no £5 off.

Just an update that Amazon haven't price matched this when I asked by email.

Thanks for the heads up. Just did this on Colchester store

Is this going to be on Steam?

Bioshock being remastered is nothing like this. This is remade. Not remastered. Bioshock released on 360/PS3 too and judging by how little effort went into that remaster, it would have been an insult to charge for it.

So yes, I am saying a company remaking three 20 year old games and them being available for £23 is very good value to me and others judging by the comments in this thread. Not everyone has the same opinion as yourself. Others see value where you might not. The value of a product is entirely subjective to the person wanting to buy said product.

For those of us wanting to buy upon release, preordering secures you the cheapest price upon release too. That's why people preorder, to save money upon release. :smiley:

Agree,played and completed and enjoyed the 3rd game on PS1,good game but nothing special anyway.
£23 is too much for them..wasn't Rare Remaster collection with 10+ games like £15 on launch? and it had Conker,Banjo etc better games than Crash..
anyway,no need to worry as I'm sure it will "crash" to £10 or under soon.which is ok to give em a try.

Some of the people commenting here need to look up the difference between a remake and a remaster.
These are actually somewhere in between the two.

"Vicarious Visions coined the term "remaster plus" in describing whether the N. Sane Trilogy is a remaster or a remake. They said that they do not consider it a remake, because they did not "fully remake" the original games, but rather used Naughty Dog's original level geometry to rebuild the gameplay from scratch. As the levels were coming together, they also added their own art, animation, and audio.

Personally I think the changes and what I've seen in the trailers definitely make this worth the price tag. I love playing retro games. I still play the original Tomb Raider and it's still one of my all time favourite games.
The first Crash game has NOT aged well. It's almost unplayable by modern standards, the controls are so awkward and the save system is ridiculous. Cortex Strikes Back and Warped have aged a lot better and are much more playable but I still think these remasters/remakes will add a lot and will be more than worth the asking price. If only it included CTR too!

Eh? You can't know what price it's going to be on release. How many games have come out recently that have bombed and been 1/3rd cheaper after a month? By pre-ordering you're basically letting the developer get away with releasing whatever junk they want. I've looked at trailers of this game and it looks like an Xbox Live Arcade game from the 360 era.

Whether the developers want to call it a "remake" or a "remaster" is irrelevant - it's the same underlying game so it's a remaster. Just different graphics and animations overlaid over the same levels.

I'm gonna guess that's come from someone whose never had any software development knowledge in their life. Such a lazy and completely incorrect thing to say. Even if it was "just a remaster", surely you've not missed the technological advancements between the original release on PSX in 1999 and what we are capable of today? Just to put it in perspective, your memory card back then was 32MB and you could save plenty on it and everyone was going mad for the fact you could play games off discs rather than cartridges...

There will be almost nothing of the source games that can be used for this, I'm extremely confident of saying that. It's a rebuild of an existing game in a vastly different development suite for a massively more sophisticated platform. It's akin to saying that today's Ford Fiesta is just a remaster of the Ford Model T. Just different materials and contraptions overlaid over the same components. An utterly ridiculous suggestion that totally undermines the concept.

TL;DR, your comment seems very condescending at a glance, but you're wrong on the first part as I'm a professional software engineer. Better luck next time kiddo.

PS consider yourself ignored :smiley:

Oh no, ignored on the internet. How will I survive...

As a Computer Games and Multimedia Development graduate, my point still stands and notably, you refused to address it. The reason being that it stands true. The technological advancement from 1996 to 2017 renders this a massive project to bring the game into a state that stands up in today's gaming world. The fact that you seem to think it's as simple as take a game from 1996, throw a lick of paint on it and stick it in a shiny new box is just an utter insult to the people who create these games.

As a footnote, it would actually depress me if you were a professional software engineer as it would really show up the dire state of the industry if someone with the title "engineer" comes out with utter manure like "Just different graphics and animations overlaid over the same levels".

...Im a training consultant which is completely irrelevant to the gaming industry but as a consumer I dont care who thinks its worth buying or not. I pre-ordered and cant wait for the warm feeling of reminiscence!

Nice finding and heat from me but won't drive 30 miles to Bournemouth or Salisbury to get it for fiver less. :wink: And seems to be oos everywhere by now.

And now they're not giving £5 off online. The code PRE5 doesn't work anymore. :confused:

Went to do this apparently was told I'd have to prepare order it online because they have been told to stop taking prepare orders for it in store