The Japanese tech giant announced
that a limited edition 20th Anniversary PlayStation 4 will be released
soon. The console will be gray, like the first PlayStation released
December 3, 1994 in Japan. It will include other imagery like the iconic
four-color PlayStation logo that harks back to the system's history.
"The mid-'90s were an
exciting time for game developers, driven by the explosion of powerful
but affordable 3-D graphics rendering hardware and the birth of many
young and adventurous development studios," Shuhei Yoshida, president of
Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, wrote in the post on the
PlayStation blog. "The original PlayStation was meant to embody that
sense of adventure and discovery, that sense that anything was
possible."
The PlayStation sold a then unheard-of 100,000 units in its first weekend and hit 1 million units in six months, according to Sony.
Only 12,300 units of the 20th Anniversary PS4 will be released, according to a video on the blog post.
Pre-orders will begin Saturday, and details about how to vie for one of
the handful of slots will come during a keynote presentation from
PlayStation Experience, a fan and developer expo being held in Las
Vegas.
The keynote will be Saturday at 1 p.m. ET.
To celebrate the 20th
anniversary, we assembled a gallery of images of the PlayStation, and
the people who love it, from the past two decades. Take a look, and let
us know what you think in the comments below.
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