They look quite nice in grey (Sony)
Sony is celebrating 30 years of PlayStation by releasing special edition consoles and controllers with a very PS1 era style paintjob.
Apologies to anyone this makes feel old, but the PlayStation brand will be celebrating its 30th anniversary on December 3 this year.
The original PlayStation console wasn’t released outside of Japan until 1995, and not in Europe until September 29 that year, but it will officially be three decades in the business for Sony this winter.
They’ve already released some anniversary items – you could argue including Astro Bot – but now they’ve wheeled out the big guns: various consoles and controls painted grey to honour the original PlayStation console.
The PS5 Pro, the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition, the PlayStation Portal, and the DualSense and DualSense Edge controllers are all getting the same treatment, which includes not just a two-tone grey colour scheme but the old school, more colourful, PlayStation logo.
All of the items will be released in limited numbers but some more than others, with only 12,300 units of the PlayStation 5 Pro Console – 30th Anniversary Limited Edition Bundle for the whole world. (The number is meant to represent the month and date of the original release, in American notation – even though that’s not what’s used in Japan and shouldn’t it be 12,394 anyway?).
The PlayStation 5 Digital Edition Bundle includes the console and DualSense controller, plus a console cover for a disc drive but not the drive itself. A normal PS5 Slim is not available as 30th anniversary edition.
You do get a vertical stand though and the box is a homage to the original PlayStation 1 design. Plus, there’s also a number of unique collector’s items included in the box:
• Four PlayStation Shapes cable ties
• PlayStation sticker
• Limited Edition PlayStation Poster (1 of 30 possible designs)
• PlayStation Paperclip
The PS5 Pro Limited Edition Bundle has the same special contents but the controllers and Portal don’t seem to have any extras.
Pre-orders will begin on Thursday, September 26 on direct.playstation.com, which means at the moment there’s no clue as to how much any of this is going to cost. But considering the PS5 Pro is £700 on its own, it’s clearly not going to be cheap.
The designs are reminiscent of the leaving gift given to former PlayStation boss Jim Ryan earlier this year, except his was an original PlayStation 5. Also, he got given some biscuits with his face on it.
That cable is definitely a nice to have (Sony)
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