The rumor stems from French retailer Boulanger. An employee or someone else with access to Boulanger’s product database discovered a listing for a bundle that includes a standard edition PS5 and “Ratche,” the French translation of Ratchet. The product is listed at a price of 599€. No further information is provided about the product, nor is a release date listed for it. In other words, it’s clearly an unreliable leak without further verification.
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The only other evidence of a possible PS5 and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart bundle that the source provides isn’t particularly reliable, but is interesting nonetheless. It notes that Sony has historically created bundles for its consoles with Ratchet & Clank games. Multiple PS3 bundles were released, including one with the Ratchet & Clank Trilogy and another with Ratchet & Clank All 4 One. Another bundle shown includes a PS Vita with the Ratchet & Clank Trilogy. In other words, there’s precedence for such a bundle.
However, the leak doesn’t pass the smell test, otherwise. For one, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is going to be a brand new full-price game release. Given the current popularity of the PS5 and its first-party games, Sony would have no reason to bundle the game with a console so soon. Second, these past bundles historically included a Ratchet & Clank bundle-in at no extra cost. Yet the bundle shown on Boulanger’s website retails for a hefty 599€. That’s 100€ more than the PS5 alone, and even more than what the $70 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart game would cost separately.
There are two likely possibilities for this supposedly leaked Boulanger product listing, then. One is that it’s completely faked and the profile is either a mock-up or false information input by someone with access to Boulanger’s system. The second is that this is a custom retailer bundle, in which they put two separate products together, call it a bundle, and charge more than retail price. That’s not uncommon, given the scarcity of PS5s in the world.
Sony very likely will offer a bundle for the PS5 in the future. It could even come in 2021, perhaps with the Miles Morales Spider-Man game or Demon’s Souls. It’s much more likely to come at a later date when the PS5 isn’t selling out immediately, however. And is even less likely to include a brand new game released in the past six months.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart releases June 11 on PS5.
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