Apparently, some turd changed his mind about donating to charity --- or never planned to in the first place...

http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/02/18/00001-ps4-20th-anniversary-127000-charity-auction-fails-sony-donates-highest-bid-anyway/

Sony Computer Entertainment put the #00001 20th Anniversary PS4 on auction, promising to donate the proceeds to the Japanese branch of Save the Children.

Unfortunately not everything went as planned, and the auction was marred by several prank bids, but ultimately the console managed to reach a highest bid of 15,135,000 yen, which translate to roughly $127,000.

The company announced today with a press release that unfortunately the highest bid has not been fulfilled and the sale has failed, causing Sony to decide to postpone selling the console.

Not all news are bad, though, as Sony also announced that it will still donate the amount of the highest bid to Save the Children, added to the sum generated by the “PlayStation Love Tweet” campaign. 1,156 PlayStation-loving Tweet were received, and at 20 yen each, they prompted a donation of 23,120 yen.

This brings the total donation made by Sony to Save the Children to 15,158,120 yen, translating to 127,278 dollars.

The concluded the announcement by thanking all those who supported the auction, and announcing that for the moment the #00001 20th Anniversary PS4 will be showcased at its showroom in Ginza, Tokyo, starting on February 21st.

Well, that's a pretty awesome/happy ending on the part of Sony, at least. c:

Should've donated the console instead of the money.

Good guy sony, good news in the end.

What they should of done is donated the money as they have, but then kept on offering it to the next bidder down until they came across the first one that was genuine and was prepared to pay what they bid.

I'm sure they will auction it again. Probably not this way, maybe at some live event like E3 or Tokyo Game Show.

Thanks pranksters!

You slightly disrupted a good-cause event, and now nothing has really changed. Congratulations.