Remember those 20th Anniversary Edition PlayStation 4s? The sleek grey consoles proved to be incredibly popular despite their extremely limited availability, with many machines getting resold for extortionate prices on websites like eBay.
Sony recently held an auction for the very first 20th Anniversary unit, and the bidding ended at a massive ¥15.135 million, which is about £85,000. With the money going to charity organisation Save the Children Japan, along with a matching amount from Sony itself, it was looking like the firm had done its good deed for the day -- until the buyer didn't pay up.
Indeed, the winner of the auction failed to cough up the dough, and so Kaz Hirai's company thoughtfully pushed the money forward instead, together with the promised matching amount. As for the PS4 No. 00001 unit, it'll now go on display in Sony's Tokyo showroom. All's well that ends well, eh?
[source blogs.wsj.com, via eurogamer.net, kotaku.com]
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That so called 'Winner' should be Shot. How can he do that? It's for a good cause & he does that :-/ I knew this was going to happen, people online can't be trusted one bit, oh well. Nice 1 SONY for paying the rest anyway in the end
Glad its at least in a museum and not mark whalbergs digs
Where a work of art should be. I would of loved one of these. Hopefully they will release some more in the future
Awesome though this is, the cynic in me is sat somewhere near the back of my mind and pondering, "Hmm, I wonder if this was the plan all along - a Sony employee makes the bid for £85,000, then withholding the cash on purpose in order that Sony are able to gallantly step forward and stump it all up themselves..."
To be fair, I'm sure that wasn't the case and that it is a genuine act of generosity, but it's still possible. It'd make for one hell of an expensive PR stunt though!
@SteveButler2210 it was probably the work of extraterrestrials, probably
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Agreed.
Ohh, I work just down the street from that showroom. Reckon I'll go have a look once it's in there.
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