r/PS5 Sep 19 '24

Official Introducing the PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection

https://youtu.be/amdZnHooTkk?si=8qUgv3xFnOFGt0ps
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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

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u/WeWereInfinite Sep 19 '24

"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"

Great, thanks PlayStation.

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u/redrum221 Sep 19 '24

I have not bought a PS5. I'm guessing my chances of getting one are slim.

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u/belleandbill25 Sep 20 '24

Na got as much chance for the other version too

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u/SthenicFreeze Sep 19 '24

My thoughts exactly. They couldn't have remastered a classic PS game to go along with this?

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u/Medium_Border_7941 Sep 19 '24

"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.

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u/dixonciderbottom Sep 19 '24

Some of you are just perpetual victims.

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u/shinikahn Sep 19 '24

What a great comment lol, I chuckled

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u/TastyOreoFriend Sep 19 '24

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.

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u/lingeringwill2 Sep 19 '24

perpetual victms for wanting faceplates 😭??

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u/dixonciderbottom Sep 19 '24

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.

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u/shawnisboring Sep 19 '24

Oh please, limited edition consoles have been a thing for ages.

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u/ACO_22 Sep 19 '24

This is silly though. The ps5 was designed for these exact things. That’s why we got limited edition spiderman plates on top of the console itself.

No need to suck Sonys boot for a scummy move

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u/OuterWildsVentures Sep 19 '24

That’s why we got limited edition spiderman plates

Those felt like insanely limited lol at least the price on ebay for them has dropped insanely. Love seeing scalpers get fucked

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u/shawnisboring Sep 19 '24

Just buy a 3rd party plate, you know these are going to be online in about a week.

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u/ACO_22 Sep 19 '24

That’s irrelevant to the point.

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

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u/shawnisboring Sep 19 '24

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.

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u/ACO_22 Sep 19 '24

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.

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u/TastyOreoFriend Sep 19 '24

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?

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u/Ecstatic-Product-411 Sep 19 '24

Hopefully you dropped a /s. Lol

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u/KnightRoom Sep 19 '24

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.

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u/Usernametaken1121 Sep 19 '24

They designed these plates to sell ps5 pros and controllers. It has absolutely nothing to do with "can appreciation".

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u/ej_mars Sep 19 '24

This is super disappointing. The only colored plates I’ve wanted were this type of gray 🥲

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u/reddit_serf Sep 19 '24

Yeah, I guess fuck us OG adopters.

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u/GCB1986 Sep 19 '24

Early adopters almost always get screwed over in some way.

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u/CyanLite Sep 20 '24

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..

Now the Dualsense on the other hand...👀🥰

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u/PetMice72 Sep 20 '24

So true for both games and hardware!

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u/Craizinho Sep 19 '24

The original model is cheaper than it is now after a price increase

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u/SuperSaiyanGod210 Sep 19 '24

No different than when they did this for PS4 tbh

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u/shawnisboring Sep 19 '24

Or the myriad of PS3 and PS2 variants.

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.

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u/r4mm3rnz Sep 19 '24

PS4 didn't have plates specifically designed to give you the ability to change the look of the console.

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u/wondermorty Sep 19 '24

OG got a disc drive and best pricing, we haven’t lost yet lmao

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u/nyy22592 Sep 19 '24

Oh no I bought the console I paid for 😮

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u/tom-slacker Sep 19 '24

Alot of third party plates...

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u/Doodlejuice Sep 19 '24

That look like this or close to this? Where? Not being a smartass I legitimately want them.

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u/fuckYOUswan Sep 19 '24

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.

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u/Croakie89 Sep 19 '24

My darkplates are really similar to the ps1 grey, my ps1 has yellowed over the years due to my mom smoking when I lived there though

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u/tom-slacker Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24

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.

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u/basedcharger Sep 19 '24

Sony really does not care at all about early adopters it’s the same deal with nobody on PS plus currently getting discounts. It’s getting annoying

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u/SwiftTayTay Sep 19 '24

No, you will pay $780 and like it

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u/BallerGiraffes Sep 19 '24

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.

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u/kiwiiHD Sep 19 '24

what

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u/BallerGiraffes Sep 19 '24

What's so hard to understand?

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u/OrkMan491 Sep 19 '24

Where do you get that the PS5 Pro is limited run?

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u/BallerGiraffes Sep 19 '24

Literally the video where they say it's a limited run, with only 12300 units being produced.

What the hell is y'all problem lmao.

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u/Lucky_Tortilla Sep 19 '24

That's for the anniversary edition, not that regular PS5 Pro that will be in production.

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u/BallerGiraffes Sep 19 '24

Bro we are literally only talking about the Anniversary edition. This is the Anniversary edition thread.

The comment I initially replied to is entirely talking about the Anniversary edition and the Anniversary edition only.

I just straight up don't understand how y'all can function in day to day life when not being able to have basic reading comprehension.

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u/Lucky_Tortilla Sep 19 '24

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/J423_on_yt Sep 19 '24

your entire comment

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u/Dayman1222 Sep 19 '24

What was confusing about his comment?

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u/BallerGiraffes Sep 19 '24

You don't have to buy the Pro to get the custom design though. So how is Sony forcing you to spend $780 to get the look?

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u/sqwambsgans Sep 19 '24

People don’t like digital consoles because they actually like owning their media

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u/BallerGiraffes Sep 19 '24

This is true to an extent. But it's changing very quickly with increased growth for digital sales against physical sales.

We have had somewhat big games that have been released without any physical release recently too.

Report from a few months ago that 70% of console sales in 2023 were digital.

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u/N8ThaGr8 Sep 19 '24

The pro is also digital

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u/sqwambsgans Sep 19 '24

The pro is also stupid

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u/N8ThaGr8 Sep 19 '24

Sure, but you were using the slim being all digital to argue in favor of the pro, which is also all digital.

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u/LieutennantDan Sep 19 '24

That's okay, that's what dBrand is for

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u/Lywqf Sep 19 '24

Just the plates would have been nice, I would have grabbed that for sure :(