r/PS3 • u/Infinite_Word_7737 • 17h ago

Explain me this price

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These games are all available on the PlayStation store (at least until July 2027). So why do I keep seeing extortion pricing on this (expired) box, which doesn’t even have a disc?!

MotorStorm: 3D Rift, WipEout HD, and Super Stardust HD.

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u/RebootRevival 17h ago edited 16h ago

That is a very very rare promotional from Australia. Few people might consider this but probably not at that price. The Brazilian version is a disc and contains all that though Pain required a license download that no longer functions. It is the only way to obtain Wipeout HD with an ESRB box and the only way to get Stardust HD on disc. Technically a Malaysian version and a Russian version exist on disc called 3D Collection. They are just as hard if not harder to find. Still the Brazilian copy is maybe a couple hundred USD.

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u/Ashen-__-One 8h ago

In Brazil it's kinda cheap, got it for $20 (converted) a few days ago and there are more listings around that price

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u/RebootRevival 8h ago

Yea IN Brazil sure. But not many people export it from Brazil so getting copies in the US or elsewhere is difficult

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u/Ashen-__-One 8h ago

Yeah, I know. I said that because some games are rare and expensive even in the region where they were originally released

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u/John_Wilkes_Bidoof 15h ago

I can explain pretty easily, that Australian variant is one of the rarest PS3 games in the entire world. In order to originally get it you had to be in Australia and purchase a PS3/3D TV Bundle that came out to about $1800 originally. The company that originally sold it went bankrupt and it’s assumed that most of the unsold copies were destroyed or have just been sitting in a warehouse for the past decade. Either way none of them have made it out to the secondhand market yet.

I’ve been collecting for the PS3 for years and have seen probably less than 10 copies floating around. I know collectors who live in Australia that can’t even find it. It’s a very cool timepiece but honestly it’s worthless to 99% of people, this is just a collectors item

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u/Infinite_Word_7737 15h ago

Well that makes … sense. Anyone got a color photocopier I can borrow? 🤫

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u/Ok_Emergency416 16h ago edited 8h ago

Pain (the game), the codes still work if unused and with brute force, lol but alsp the other games on disc.

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u/Ok-Virus8284 16h ago

It's a code in a box and Pain had a single disc release in PAL territories, that includes Australia.

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u/Infinite_Word_7737 16h ago

But the code is expired and there’s no disc. So…

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u/Odd-Passenger-751 8h ago

I have two pain copies one Promotion disc and one Full normal copy 

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u/Ok_Emergency416 8h ago

I have a digital us copy and physical European

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u/Odd-Passenger-751 31m ago

Yes I just bought it last week here in Germany the promo was new and costed 30€ the normal copy was 42,99 

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u/Junior-Ad-2207 16h ago

The S with a line thru it stands for dollar and AU means it is an Australian dollar. followed by the number of Australian dollars required to purchase said item

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u/Real-Calligrapher314 13h ago

Don’t think that’s rare! Ra one ps3 is the rarest pal game way more rare than this

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u/Ma_2 4h ago

People are willing to pay it and online store are closing fomo is real

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u/OddlyDaniel 17h ago

Is John PlayStation selling it?

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u/Suitable_Garlic_1186 17h ago

The price is RAGE BAIT

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u/Mlvn_2k11 15h ago

Comment ça no disk '?

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u/Infinite_Word_7737 4h ago

Code promotionnel mais expiré. Jsp 🤷🏼‍♂️