No Metal Gear Solid: Essential Collection for Aussie fans

  • By kozanecki, GameSpot AU
  • Posted Feb 7, 2008 3:01 pm AEST

As Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots draws nearer to release, gamers were left salivating yesterday when Konami confirmed that they would indeed be releasing the Metal Gear Solid: Essential Collection in North America. The pack includes Metal Gear Solid on the PlayStation, Metal Gear...

As Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots draws nearer to release, gamers were left salivating yesterday when Konami confirmed that they would indeed be releasing the Metal Gear Solid: Essential Collection in North America. The pack includes Metal Gear Solid on the PlayStation, Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, and Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence for the PlayStation 2. To celebrate their rerelease, all of the packaging has also been redesigned by artist Yoji Shinkawa. Shinkawa was responsible for the character design in the original Metal Gear Solid.

Unfortunately, we've got some bad news for all the MGS fans in Australia. When contacted for a local release date on MGS:EC in Australia, an Atari spokesperson told GameSpot AU, "At the moment, we don't have plans to release it in Australia." Keep checking GameSpot AU for more news on Metal Gear Solid 4.

40 Comments

  • porkeh

    Posted Sep 28, 2008 5:29 pm PT

    thank god mandrake is here to set those stupid dumbarses in line. theyve gotta be the two stupidest comments i think ive ever read on this site.

  • robertwarnes91

    Posted Jul 20, 2008 11:54 pm PT

    I'm an Aussie and this news story puzzles me. Atari Australia just imports the games from the UK and puts a Oz classification on it. Yet this game hasn't even been announced for the UK? So how could it even exist?

  • RobotFreshPies

    Posted Jul 6, 2008 10:18 pm PT

    Thats bloody rediculous, why the hell not? We deserve it as much as any other country

  • PandaBear86

    Posted Jun 27, 2008 9:42 am PT

    I remember reading an article recently on how Atari was losing lots of money. If they do stupid things like this, then they DESERVE to lose money.

  • Mandrake42

    Posted Jun 17, 2008 5:25 am PT

    @ 2w-sephiroth: If noone in Australia bought any new games, how exactly would there be second hand ones? I mean. Just stop, take a deep breath, and think about that for a moment. Ok, Im only giving you one thought at a time here as you seem to have problems with it. Ok, digested that one. Second one, if there was no market for games here in Australia they wouldnt sell them, simple as that. Its basic economics. Sure we don't have the market draw that the US does but I think you will find thats due to the fact that our population is a lot smaller rather than noone buying them.

    @ Generalmojo: Yes we are aware of Ebay but unless your PS2 is modded we cant play NTSC games on them, mine isnt modded. Id prefer a local release.

  • Generalmojo

    Posted Jun 16, 2008 3:31 am PT

    aussie has neva heard of Ebay if they have
    then they wont complain wud they

  • 2w-sephiroth

    Posted Mar 4, 2008 2:31 am PT

    well australians never spend a cent on games, they allways buy second hand games and cheap discounts, they allways complain on how expensive they are too. I think the market for new games in Australia is not that big.

  • Nexelau

    Posted Feb 21, 2008 12:31 am PT

    Once again, it sounds like Atari can't just can't be bothered to ship it down here. Worst thing is, every time they screw us over, more people order online.. which means when they look at their numbers, they decide all the more that its not worth releasing new stuff here, since people buy online... vicious cycle, for gamers, started by Atari.

  • TehUndeadHorror

    Posted Feb 11, 2008 11:55 pm PT

    Damn you Atari... damn you!

  • InFaMous_Si

    Posted Feb 11, 2008 6:21 pm PT

    Thats bullcrap!, Us aussie always get the lowdown of the games. For example: Devil may cry CE, we get the art book..., for america they get the hole package.

  • smbius

    Posted Feb 10, 2008 11:27 pm PT

    All I know is that Aussies better get on Ebay to get their copy.

  • devildemondruid

    Posted Feb 10, 2008 10:40 pm PT

    well since i have never played any of the mgs games and was looking forward to playing them from first to third in a row well now they can take their games and....ah who am i kidding ill play em when mgs 4 comes out

  • wambabonga

    Posted Feb 10, 2008 11:36 am PT

    I expect the UK or the rest of Europe wont get it

  • Jazzism

    Posted Feb 9, 2008 12:50 am PT

    eBay market is gonna get opened right up for this package I believe.

  • 02sfraser

    Posted Feb 8, 2008 12:10 pm PT

    thats unfortunate news.

  • pandaramaster

    Posted Feb 8, 2008 8:01 am PT

    Atari? What does Atari have to do with it? Can anyone explain that to me? The only logical explanation is Atari could publish a very heavily Konami Branded game, thats it...

  • Shadowsanek

    Posted Feb 8, 2008 7:15 am PT

    If I lived in Australia I'd be pissed

  • lamprey263

    Posted Feb 8, 2008 12:18 am PT

    A lot of stuff gets released in Australia late, besides, we in North America just heard about this, I'm sure it's just a short matter of time before Australians hear about this for them, it'll just come a month or few later.

  • Mattyrock

    Posted Feb 7, 2008 10:34 pm PT

    Oh that sucks hard!

  • Generic_Dude

    Posted Feb 7, 2008 2:48 pm PT

    That's pretty lame... were I an Aussie, I'd throw an online petition up pretty quick. Since Australia more than likely gets a similar edition to the EU version (or maybe just a PAL version of the US release), I think it'd only take dollar signs to sway them to the other side, really.

    That being said, if it doesn't come to pass, it's always importable I guess...

  • tatu2004

    Posted Feb 7, 2008 11:18 am PT

    it's a shame that some place' has to miss out on good games i guess it could do with cost's Ect:

  • x-2tha-z

    Posted Feb 7, 2008 10:10 am PT

    You could import the UK version. The UK version is PAL so it will work with Australian PAL PS2's. Just buy it from the UK ebay or something. Play.com ship to Australia too I think.

  • Bei_Kailin posted Feb 7, 2008 9:12 am PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    Bei_Kailin

    Posted Feb 7, 2008 9:12 am PT (hide)

    Good. I hate it when Australians get good games.

  • Kirbysuperstar

    Posted Feb 7, 2008 8:38 am PT

    Since when do Atari publish Konami games?

  • rockutd

    Posted Feb 7, 2008 5:48 am PT

    wow.Glad i ain't an aussie.

  • Rat0Camper

    Posted Feb 7, 2008 5:35 am PT

    Gah, that sucks.

    Then again, knowing our prices, if it had been released here it would probably have cost $250 anyway >_>

  • kkee

    Posted Feb 7, 2008 5:00 am PT

    stolz1975, PS2 games aren't region free so people can't import it.

  • stolz1975

    Posted Feb 7, 2008 4:50 am PT

    hahahahaha! u could just import it

  • matt_110

    Posted Feb 7, 2008 1:48 am PT

    Poopdog, it's an Australian blog, what did you expect?

  • wrattman91

    Posted Feb 7, 2008 12:01 am PT

    reallllllly pissed of now we Aussies get nothing in gaming world sure are market isnt is big as the US market but come on Sony 4fs

  • werc96

    Posted Feb 6, 2008 11:24 pm PT

    Atari publishes it over there?????

  • hijaker77

    Posted Feb 6, 2008 11:17 pm PT

    ridiculous, we Australians get jack sh*t very sad. end of story

  • PandaBear86 posted Feb 6, 2008 11:10 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    PandaBear86

    Posted Feb 6, 2008 11:10 pm PT (hide)

    Congrats Sony, you shaft us Aussies yet again. We get no BC with PS3s even though we pay more money for the system, we get bad delays, now you have no effort to make sure that this MGS collection arrives here. Thank goodness I migrated from PS2 to Wii60.

  • azizrulez

    Posted Feb 6, 2008 10:33 pm PT

    after the orange box this is the best compilation of games ever,although kinda lame the aussies are missing out on this,or appear to be missing out

  • Marka1700

    Posted Feb 6, 2008 10:29 pm PT

    This follow by the new of Ninja Gained black wont be comming to the Xbox Originals service on Xbox Live in Australia is a blow to the sack.

  • poopdogg89 posted Feb 6, 2008 10:27 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    poopdogg89

    Posted Feb 6, 2008 10:27 pm PT (hide)

    I think its interesting how GS twisted the news to sound negative. The news was that the pack was coming to the United States, but the headline is that it's not coming to Australia. Nice, GameSpot. Good way to make good news sound bad.

  • shredicalous

    Posted Feb 6, 2008 9:38 pm PT

    alot of dedicated fans here are gona be pretty unhappy about this.

    i for one say this is absolute bs!

  • supersonicGO

    Posted Feb 6, 2008 9:35 pm PT

    aw that's sad for them, at first, us American fans didn't think we would get a release like Japan did but we did! I bet Australians will get something.

  • LINKloco

    Posted Feb 6, 2008 9:31 pm PT

    Wow.

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