As part of the ongoing 30th anniversary celebration, PlayStation announced the PlayStation 30th Anniversary collection. This collection consists of limited-edition PS5 consoles and accessories designed and themed to look like the original gray box that started it all, the Sony PlayStation.
The collection includes the following items:
- PS5 (Slim) Digital Edition – 30th Anniversary Limited Edition Bundle
- Console (with 30th Anniversary label, special covers)
- 1 DualSense controller (30th Anniversary Limited Edition)
- Console Cover for disc drive (but no disc drive)
- vertical stand
- poster (1 of possible 30 designs)
- “PlayStation-style cable connector housing”
- four PlayStation Shapes cable ties
- PlayStaion Stickers
- PlayStation paperclip
- PS5 Pro – 30th Anniversary Limited Edition Bundle
- Console (with 30th Anniversary label, special covers)
- 1 DualSense controller (30th Anniversary Limited Edition)
- Console Cover for disc drive (but no disc drive)
- vertical stand
- poster (1 of possible 30 designs)
- “PlayStation-style cable connector housing”
- four PlayStation Shapes cable ties
- PlayStaion Stickers
- PlayStation paperclip
- DualSense Edge controller (30th Anniversary Limited Edition)
- DualSense Charging Station
- PS Portal Remote Player – 30th Anniverasary Limited Edition
- DualSense Edge controller – 30th Anniversary Limited Edition
- DualSense controller – 30th Anniversary Limited Edition
There’s a lot of neat throwbacks on the 30th Anniversary Limited Edition Collection design. Of course it’s the same shade of bluish grey as the original PlayStation, with the PlayStation logo in full colours. The PlayStation symbols pattern is slightly tweaked to add a “3” between the triangle and circle symbol so it reads “30” (though all five symbols now looks like it’s spelling “Triangle Box”).
This applies to the controller as well, where it’s also sporting more colours, in particular the symbols of the face buttons, which is now colour-coded again. All DualSense controllers in their official colours so far don’t have colours on the face button, something the PS5 generation of consoles stopped doing.
For added nostalgia, even the humble USC-C cable gets an extra bit of plastic to replicated the wired controller’s connectors of the PS1. We’ve come a long way since having to sit in front of a TV at a fixed distance due to the length of those controller wires.
It is rather dissapointing that Sony is really pushing to make disc drives an optional thing, but thankfully they have the foresight to at least add an extra console cover in matching colour scheme just in case one would upgrade to have a disc drive on their limited edition PS5.
The PS5 Pro in particular are numbered individually to really set it home that there are only 12,300 of these available in the world. The number is a throwback to the release date (in the mm/dd/yyyy format as used in North America) of the original PlayStation in Japan: December 3, 1994.
No word on local availability in Southeast Asia yet, but expect these to be released on November 21.