Sony's 30th anniversary PS5, PS5 Pro, and Portal evoke nostalgia

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Want to get a feel of the original PlayStation color? Get a new PS5!

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Sony's PlayStation family of game consoles spans five generations and 30 years. To celebrate the anniversary of the launch of the original PlayStation in 1994, Sony on Thursday introduced a set of limited edition PlayStation consoles and accessories that come in the original dark gray color.  

The new family of limited edition PlayStation consoles in the original dark grey color includes the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition console with a DualSense controller and a gray cover for disc drive as well as the PlayStation 5 Pro 2 TB system with a DualSense wireless controller, DualSense Edge wireless controller, DualSense Charging Station, and a gray cover for a disk drive.  

These consoles will come bundled with various collector's items, including a USB Type-C cable designed to look like the original PlayStation controller connector housing, cable ties, stickers, a poster, and even a paper clip. 

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PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection

Sony has not announced pricing of the limited edition consoles and Portal Remote Player for PS5, but keeping in mind that the PS5 Pro limited edition will come bundled with the DualSense Edge premium controller and all of the consoles will include collector's items, expect them to cost more than a typical PS5 and PS5 Pro.  

Also, Sony said that it will produce only 12,300 limited edition PlayStation5 Pro systems in dark grey for the whole world, so these are going to be rare birds (expect them on eBay from scalpers). 

Sony will also offer its PlayStation Portal Remote Player for PS5 in the original gray color for those who play on the go, as well as DualSense Edge controller, and DualSense controller in the same color scheme.  

The PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection will be released on November 21. In regions where direct.playstation.com is available (U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Austria), customers with a PlayStation Network account can pre-order everything except the PS5 Digital Limited Edition starting September 26. The PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 30th Anniversary Limited Edition Bundle will be available for pre-order starting October 10.

Anton Shilov
Anton Shilov
Contributing Writer

Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

5 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Giroro
    The PS5 is not making me feel nostalgic. It's just too weird looking.

    Also, I'm surprised to see they're still making the Playstation Portal handheld tablet thing. I thought it would have been gone in 2 months like that time they made a Playstation branded 3D TV.
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  • hotaru251
    mmmm nah im good. If I want that nostalgia i'd just pull out my original ps.

    PS had a ton of great games & stuff where as as someone who has bought 2 PS5's (personal & for guests to use) the actual amount of PS5 exclusives is sad & makes you feel buyers regret. Probably the least amount of exclusives of ANY PS console.
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  • kyzarvs
    hotaru251 said:
    mmmm nah im good. If I want that nostalgia i'd just pull out my original ps.

    PS had a ton of great games & stuff where as as someone who has bought 2 PS5's (personal & for guests to use) the actual amount of PS5 exclusives is sad & makes you feel buyers regret. Probably the least amount of exclusives of ANY PS console.
    Totally agree, but one of those exclusives remains Gran Turismo, so I'm stuck. I'm not a Forza fan and whilst AC etc are more sim, they have no playerbase. It's not new for me - I only bought a PS4 for GT, but at least that gets a second life as a Sky / Netflix / Amazon etc media centre in our caravan.
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  • Amdlova
    Gran turismo its the only game make want a ps console. I'm building a ps3 console to play ps1 ps2 and ps3 gran turismos. "I Like old cars".
    :D
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  • bigdragon
    These special editions are the dream of scalpers. No way normal consumers are going to get ahold of these at retail prices. I do like the throwback gray and colorful logo though.
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