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Teeqoz on 09 December 2014

 

Londoners get the chance to purchase the limited edition PS4

Anyone that remembers the glory days of Sony's first PlayStation console won't find it hard to look fondly upon the recently revealed 20th Anniversary Limited Edition PS4. Marking two decades since the OG PlayStation launched, Sony's also released a retro-inspired theme to pluck at the nostalgia strings of PS4, PS3 and Vita owners. But, nothing does it with quite as much skill as the new hardware itself, which will also go on sale in the UK tomorrow (December 10th), with a few very big catches.

 

Instead of just opening up online orders like it did in the US, Sony wants its first UK launch to be a more intimate affair. That's why it's opened a "PlayStation '94 Shop" on Bethnal Green Road in London, which will sell the limited-edition console to 94 fans for just £19.94, with all proceeds going to gaming-related charities. However, it's not quite as simple as just turning up. According to Sony, you'll also need to take one piece of PlayStation memorabilia -- a PSone controller, a retro Spyro poster or anything PlayStation-related from the nineties -- to get in the door. If you manage to get that far, you'll then need to utter the secret passphrase: "I crashed my Bandicoot."

Of course, Londoners are likely to snap them up pretty quick. So on December 11th and 12th, the shop will sell 50 retro PlayStation 4s at the very un-limited-edition price of £399 (roughly £40 more than you'd expect to pay for a standard PS4 and Eye). Unfortunately, if you don't live or work in the city then you're right out of luck, at least this week. Nevertheless, Sony will also open online orders for the console on Monday (December 15th) -- with only 12,300 limited edition consoles being sold globally, they're gonna go quick.



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ktay95 on 09 December 2014

I wish Australia had something like this, I would line up for days if I had to. Instead all we got were 20 to giveaway in a facebook competition -_-



Teeqoz on 09 December 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
That's pretty cool. Also... it's clearly confirmation that Crash Bandicoot is coming back!


Obviously.



Landguy on 09 December 2014

This system is enough for me to want to jump in and get the PS4. Too bad I have already spent too much money buying a gaming laptop for Xmas for myself. Too hard to justify...



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