Sporting the original PlayStation grey finish, and available in very limited quantities
Hello PlayStation Blog readers! Today is a very special moment in our history. It’s been 20 years since the launch of the original PlayStation, which released in Japan on 3rd December, 1994. It seems like only yesterday! I’m so glad that we can celebrate this moment together.
20 years is a long time! In 1994, many outsiders thought that Sony was slightly crazy to launch the original PlayStation into an incredibly competitive gaming market. Who could blame them? Sony was (and is!) famous for engineering great electronics, audio equipment and many other consumer devices. But game consoles?!
Sony Computer Entertainment, founded by my mentor Ken Kutaragi, was a project borne out of sincere passion and deep admiration for the craft of game development. The mid ’90s were an exciting time for game developers, driven by the explosion of powerful but affordable 3D graphics rendering hardware and the birth of many young and adventurous development studios. The original PlayStation was meant to embody that sense of adventure and discovery, that sense that anything was possible.
We sincerely thank you for joining us on our exciting 20-year journey. You have made every bump and scrape we took along the way worthwhile. And there’s so much more to come! :D
But I don’t want to go on for too long, because we have a big piece of news to reveal: a very special 20th Anniversary Edition PS4!
Sporting the same ‘Original Grey’ finish as the original PlayStation and packaged in a commemorative box, PlayStation 4 20th Anniversary Edition will be priced at €499 and limited to 12,300 units worldwide, reflecting the launch date of the original PlayStation.
Given this very limited production run, the 20th Anniversary Edition will not be available via traditional retail channels in the SCEE region. Look out for more information soon on how you can get your hands on one of these highly collectable consoles.
Thanks for a great 20 years, and here’s to 20 more.
Want? Yes
Afford? No (Well, not until well after Christmas at least)
Sad? Yes :'(
They are selling (estimated) 800,000 PS4 consoles every week during Christmas and there is only 12,300 PlayStation 4 20th Anniversary Edition consoles. So you may want to borrow some money from your parents.
European_Gamer I’d rather miss out and give my kids the presents they want for Christmas. I have a PS4 already and as much as I’d love another so I can play more often (I have second PS3 setup in bedroom so I could play while girlfriend watches her dodgy american dramas), I won’t borrow money for something I don’t absolutely need
We should have an age poll on here at some point, as there seems to be a widespread assumption that most people are kids.
@Telbee easy to work out the number of Children who use this blog is = the number of people who whine about not getting £50 games each month for a £40 a year service.
Telbee, I actually think that kids don’t go here. So let’s assume the most of us is adults, and have been playing since the first Playstation. Many of us might also even be within the gaming industry as well.
I’m 38 (hence 76 in my ID) but I know there’s plenty of much older gamers
I guess the 72 gives me away then! The anniversary ed. is a nice touch, looks great, but I hope they produce more of these, getting one looks like it’ll be difficult, in fact, I reckon Opt1mus and myself deserve one free for years of loyalty!! ;)
Nice idea RedMustang but somehow don’t think it’ll happen. No, these will probably get snapped up by collectors and unscrupulous people who’ll put them on eBay for ridiculous sums
Yeah, if only eh?! I don’t mind the collectors Opt1mus but I share your concern over the ‘touts’, no doubt we will see these on eBay, gumtree, amazon etc…for £2k+ (probably) at some point…pleading innocence under the guise of ‘supply and demand’…shame really. I loathe the practice too, but someone with more money than sense always pays up…so what can you do?