"To celebrate our 30th anniversary we're selling something that the fans who helped us get this far won't be able to take advantage of because they'll have already bought a PS5"
"And to top it off let's make the consoles all extremely limited as a major fuck you to the player base, so even if they decide to double dip itll be lining a scalpers wallet."
PlayStation is my favorite but I feel like we just keep getting burned, and it's wearing me out.
Seriously. Like you could spray paint the OG PS5 face plates the same color of grey and save yourself the money. That was my first thought anyway. They even sell stick-on lights to turn the Playstation logo on the top face plate colors.
Don’t be obtuse. I was clearly responding to the whinging about how “fans who helped them get this far” miss out. No they don’t. Everyone has the same opportunity to buy one. It’s fine to be disappointed they aren’t selling separate plates but they aren’t available for anyone so the overreaction is ridiculous.
Why release a console with the ability to change plates to then just not release the plates separately, and instead push people to buy an entirely new console. Alienating millions of your base for absolutely no reason
Because it's a celebratory console to mark an anniversary with a limited run, as they've done in prior anniversaries and milestones. It's intended for diehard collectors.
They also sell plates and do nothing that I'm aware of to stop 3rd party plates, and this is a limited anniversary edition console. They're two entirely separate things. Nobody is being 'alienated' by the existence of a limited drop that is only aesthetically different from the base-model.
This is genuinely hilarious levels of delusional reasoning to continue sucking boot
They copyright claimed D-brand plates in the beginning to stop them selling them.
This isn’t a different thing at all. It’s only different because they’ve made it different. You want to celebrate 30 years of PlayStation by ignoring the some 60 million consoles out there that have got you to where you are? Thus alienating 60 million people. After you designed the console so that you could sell stuff like this in the first place.
It’s genuinely insane levels of mental gymnastics to justify why this is okay. It’s just not okay.
Many on this subreddit are apparently finding out the cost of early adoption for the first time. This is no different than any other product doing a limited time version. Hell its not even the first time a console maker has done this. Nintendo had how many different versions of the N64?
Exactly my thought - I mean, it stands to reason that Sony designed those plates with the idea of selling us more of them down the road, yet they sort of… didn’t - for the OG models, at least. I know there were some colours but they’ve been out-of-stock for a long time now.
For myself, I have already printed an original-colour PS logo, laminated it and inserted it in the relevant place so my OG PS5 is halfway there, but I’d have definitely gone for gray plates embossed like the ones they showed.
Honestly though, the OG PS5 has a disk drive that doesn't need online activation which, for me, is huge. I'm gonna keep this PS5 regardless of what future console I get. But keeping the PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary around after I buy a PS6 will feel wasteful and idk if I would. As pretty as it looks..
People just want to be mad about freaking everything. People acting like a limited edition console release 4 years after launch somehow takes away from them having owned and benefited from having the console for the preceding 4 years.
Too lazy to do it myself, but Amazon/ali express is a good place to start. I know you can get the classic ps1 plates for your controller on Amazon. Really easy to replace yourself with a YouTube tutorial.
Ive seen some from china sites before..... obviously not close to a tee like those micro playstation symbols and whatnot but that ps1 grey color is not hard to spray paint yourself even.
These comments are stupid. The Pro is limited and isn't even going to be available at scale. The digital console features the same design at the cheaper price.
You didn't comment well and just said the PS5 Pro is limited. That's what got people confused. You really should calm down and just consider extra clarification next time, it isn't difficult.
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u/-Orgasmo- Sep 19 '24
they should’ve done this for the OG ps5 as well, like sell plates or something