God of War Laufey’s $150 Collector Box Goes Up for Pre-Order Today Without the Game

God of War Laufey‘s $149.99 Collector Box is up for pre-order today at PlayStation Direct, and it does not include a copy of the game. Sony’s product page and the listing on the UK PlayStation Store carry an explicit “God of War Laufey game sold separately” line beneath the pre-order button, a disclaimer that’s now drawing fire from the same fans who saw Rockstar’s $400 GTA 6 collector box ship the same way earlier this fall.

The Collector Box carries a recommended retail price of $149.99 USD, €149.99 in Europe, and £129.99 in the UK. It includes a light-up resin statue of Faye, a 51-card Oracle Deck with bespoke illustrations themed around Faye’s journey, and a mini artbook curated by Santa Monica Studio’s development team. Pre-orders opened at 10:00 am local time today, October 13, 2026, and Sony is enforcing a strict one-per-customer limit “due to high demand.” The box ships on February 16, 2027, the same day God of War Laufey itself launches as a PS5 exclusive from Sony Interactive Entertainment. It joins the full release calendar as one of the most-watched 2027 dates.

IGN framed the listing in blunt terms: “Following in the footsteps of GTA 6, God of War Laufey is the next big game to get a collector box without the game itself.” Destructoid went further, calling the box a “horrible trend” and noting that “the actual games do not come packaged with collector’s editions, which really begs the question: What are these people even collecting at that point?” VGChartz and PlayStation LifeStyle both confirmed the price and contents. None of the outlets reported any standard edition pre-order discount for buyers who also pick up the Collector Box.

For players who want both, the math is simple: $149.99 for the box plus whatever the standard or digital edition of the game costs on top. Santa Monica Studio and Sony have not announced a deluxe or collector’s edition that bundles the game with the statue, artbook, and Oracle Deck, so anyone hoping to own all of it in one SKU is out of luck. The single-per-order cap is a tacit acknowledgment that supply is short and demand is the part of the equation Sony is willing to defend publicly. It echoes a wider trend in how Sony, Microsoft, and others are handling first-party collector SKUs.

This is the second time in roughly six weeks that a major publisher’s “collector’s edition” has shipped without the game inside, after Rockstar’s much-derided $400 Grand Theft Auto VI box. Santa Monica Studio is the Sony first-party developer behind the 2018 God of War and its 2022 sequel Ragnarök, and God of War Laufey is its first new franchise entry since 2022. Faye is the protagonist, the grandmother figure from the Norse-era God of War mythology; this is her first time as a playable lead. PlayStation Direct is Sony’s first-party storefront, the only place the Collector Box is available, with shipping limited to regions where PlayStation Direct operates. The Oracle Deck is a 51-card collectible set with bespoke illustrations themed around Faye’s journey; the Mini Artbook is curated by the development team. PS5 is Sony’s current-generation home console, launched in November 2020. The wider industry-trend story lines up with Pixel Herald’s recent coverage of how Sony, Microsoft, and others are reshaping first-party strategy (Xbox LABS) and the ESA’s pushback on piracy in physical goods.

Our read: the “$150+ collector’s box with no game inside” pattern is no longer a one-off. GTA 6 set the template, and now a Sony first-party launch is doing the same thing for a single-player premium release. The contents are real, the prices are real, and the disclaimer is right there on the listing; Sony isn’t hiding anything, which is exactly the part some fans find most galling. If you want the Faye statue or the Oracle Deck, pre-order before the one-per-customer cap closes the window. If you wanted a complete package, wait to see whether Sony adds a “game included” SKU before launch.

By the numbers: $149.99 USD / €149.99 / £129.99 (three regions, one price tier); 3 items in the box (statue, deck, artbook); 1 per customer (Sony’s official cap); 5 outlets covered the listing within hours of pre-orders opening; 0 alternative SKUs that bundle the game; Feb 16, 2027 ship date, exactly aligned with the game launch.

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