ICO-Shadow of The Colossus Collection for PS3

[Vector]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103470-Ico-Officially-Leads-Colossus-to-PS3-in-HD

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/112/1120651p1.html

Release date TBA, but I'd guess Q1/Q2 2011.

[Rombie]

Sales of this will be high given the demand for it. Good stuff for Sony... plus Colossus suffers from horrible slowdown which will be all gone for this version I suspect. Nice.

[MeanBob]

TGS is in just 1 day so I'm excited to see, if there will even be any, footage of the remastered versions.

Here's some details from Kotaku:

http://kotaku.com/5638207

The latest issue of Japanese games mag Famitsu confirms what we've been expecting for a long, long time: Team ICO's classic PlayStation 2 adventures Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are getting an HD makeover for the PlayStation 3.

Hardly a surprise. Team ICO and Sony have been talking about the possibility of a Team ICO collection for the better part of a year. Retailers have already started taking orders for a PS3 compilation. But Sony's making it official via Famitsu.

Unfortunately, the mag is light on details. Release date is still "undecided" and exactly how the HD re-release will be distributed is unclear. (Famitsu has two separate listings for each game, as opposed to the bundled release hinted at by retailers.)

We expect to hear more about the Ico and Shadow of the Colossus—and Team ICO's third game, The Last Guardian—later this week at the Tokyo Game Show.

[Vector]

Sony really should do this with more of its classic PS2 games. There were a lot of them. I'm still holding out hope for a Kingdom Hearts Final Mix Collection, with the Final Mix versions of KH1, KH2 and KH re:Chain of Memories all remastered and with Trophy support. I know the KH games aren't first-party, but it would make the wait for KH3 a lot less awful(Birth By Sleep is a positive, but I want MOAR).

What other games can you guys think of for a bundled re-release?

[Darkmoon]

I'm sorta interested in this. I only played SOTC for a while before I got bored of it because it has next to no storyline. I'm told it does, though, and I just need to give it more time. Plus I've yet to see Ico for a reasonable price, so...

[aris13]

What other games can you guys think of for a bundled re-release?

It's a longshot but.......Clover Studio collection (Okami/God Hand).

[A-J]

Famitsu has listed both games separately, not a compilation or collection ..

[Vector]

^ That's likely to happen in Japan.

[Skunky]

HELL YES!!!

Please take my money!

I was thinking about a replay of Ico & SOTC but I'll hold of and wait for the HD editions.

...I wonder if they'll give a trophy for climbing that damn tower in SOTC?

[Jill's Boob]

Please take my money!

Amen! I'm so happy to see this...now I don't have to waffle any longer on whether or not to buy an overpriced used copy of Ico on eBay.

I can't wait to play SoTC again either...

[BBboy20]

I kind of hope there will be a fancier version(s) because both titles deserve such aesthetic representation.

[Jill's Boob]

From the Team Ico Live Blog via Kotaku:

"The U.S. and European market will get a two-in-one release. One disc."

"The European Ico, which features a different ending, will be the universal release."

"Spring 2011 for the collection."

"There will be PlayStation Trophy support."

"Everything appears to be running smoothly, solid at 30 frames per second, give or take a frame now and then."

"On top of uprezzing the two titles for PS3, they will also be playable in stereoscopic 3D."

"As far as the Ico box art, he has some concerns about that and will be hopefully addressing that problem."

"Also, Ico will be re-framed for high-definition resolution, Ueda said in response to a question."

So happy right now.

[nemesiswontdie]

Amen! I'm so happy to see this...now I don't have to waffle any longer on whether or not to buy an overpriced used copy of Ico on eBay.

I can't wait to play SoTC again either...

I figured you'd be all over this since you couldn't stop talking about this game a few months ago.

I've been wanting to play SotC for awhile so this will be a definite buy for me.

[Carnivol]

Namco got it right between 1997~2002

"The European Ico, which features a different ending, will be the universal release."

Ooh! Finally someone that GETS IT. Base your friggin' re-releases on the LAST revision you did of the game, don't go reverting back to 1.0 when you port/re-release something. That's stupid and moronic.

I'm looking at you, Retro Studios, TOSE and Square-Enix

[Vector]

Never played ICO so I'm interested in it...I played a lot of SotC and it's a really interesting game, but I never finished it. It's one of the games that's brought up whenever the debate rages about whether or not video games are an artform. As a game, though, I felt it to be a little lacking: point your sword, ride your horse, fight a boss, rinse and repeat around 10 or 12 times.