Sifu Physical Edition Contents Revealed with Release Date

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After a slow burn of gradual gameplay demonstrations and hands-on previews that were doled out, Sloclap's martial-arts epic Sifu finally releases next week. With two different digital editions that fans can select from for Sifu on PS4 and PS5, it had previously seemed as if the options for which to buy it were binary and decided upon.

Meanwhile, the announcement that a physical release for Sifu was somewhere down the pipeline, and beckoned the question of what it would entail besides a hard disc copy. Those questions have recently been answered, with all of its content detailed in a common graphic for fans to peruse and inform their decision to purchase it or not.

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Sifu's anticipated physical edition is dubbed the «Vengeance Edition» and offers content comparable to a collector's edition. Included in the Vengeance Edition is Sifu's digital soundtrack, 3 lithographs, a 48-page «The Art of Sifu» art book, and a sleek steelbook with variant jacket cover artwork. Sifu's exclusively digital Deluxe Edition for PS4 and PS5, for comparison, only offers the digital soundtrack as well as a digital art book. The benefits of a physical edition are more commercial than functional, but they may entice anyone who wishes to secure a collector's copy for Sifu.

Rather, there is one potential downside to Sifu's physical release. The physical edition's release date has also been revealed, and it may not be as soon as some fans may have hoped for. If players wish to pre-order the Vengeance Edition, they will then have to wait three months until it is available on May 3. While three months may not be a remarkably long time in retrospect, it still means that fans