PlayStation's best collectors edition yet and doesn't come with the physical game

In late April, PlayStation unveiled the Collector's Edition for the upcoming sequel to Ghost of Tsushima, Ghost of Yōtei, where it described the edition as the "best Collector's Edition we've ever produced."

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For $250, buyers of the Collector's Edition will get all of the pre-order bonuses, including all in-game items from the digital deluxe edition, along with a digital copy of the game. That last point is a particular point of contention among collectors, as PlayStation is shipping this collector's edition with a digital copy rather than a physical copy, which many buyers of collector's editions aren't very fond of in general.

This means if a video game collector wanted everything from the Ghost of Yōtei, and most importantly, add another physical game to their wall of collected games, they will have to spend $250 on the Collector's Edition, and then buy the physical edition of the game separately. Unfortunately for collectors, this seems to be the common practice for new first-party Sony titles, as the same approach was taken with Horizon Forbidden West, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and will be the case for the upcoming Death Stranding 2.

Square Enix took a different approach for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, as the collector's edition didn't include the game at all. While at first that sounds silly, it does mean that collector's after the physical game won't have to buy the game twice to get it - one in the Collector's Edition (digital copy) and then a separate physical copy.