Champagne problems
December 12, 2014 | 22:14 | Written by: snake911
*sigh* It’s been just about a week since I lost the opportunity to get the PS4 20th Anniversary Edition. I was convinced to get it because I noted a while ago that it would be the perfect console if they went back to the color of the original PlayStation. I said this because I was getting a bit tired of all the consoles being black; including all of my home entertainment electronics.
You see, I’ve been a fan of PlayStation since the beginning. I own all three consoles, the PSP, Vita, and plan to get a PSTV some time soon. My gaming library is easily eclipsed by PlayStation name. Seeing the 20th anniversary PS4 was a beautiful looking device with the original grey color, the brightly colored PS logo, and the controller symbols embossed on the lower half made me want this more than anything I wanted in a while.
Since this special edition was in very limited quantities, I watched PlayStation’s twitter feed like a hawk all Saturday morning during the PSX event. I kept watching it even after the event ended. Around an hour later I did the foolish thing by being a responsible apartment tenant and vacuumed the living room. When I checked the twitter feed again I noticed they posted the link to get the PS4 10 minutes earlier! During the three some-odd hours of watching that feed, they decided to post during the 15 minutes I was away doing something else!
By the time I got to the store page the servers were already slammed. For an hour I tried to get through the purchase process, but whenever I tried to get to the next page I was greeted with a 404 styled message. I constantly went back to the previous page, refreshed, and tried again. Over the course of an hour I crawled my way through the process until I got to the final confirmation page. This is as far as I got. I tried for a while but I eventually gave up. I tried again a few hours later but was greeted with a message noting that they sold out. Dang.
I guess it wasn’t meant to be. So instead I celebrated Sony’s near quarter century in the gaming console market by downloading the 20th anniversary theme on my Vita. It’s a very clean theme and one I might keep for a while. I love the music and how they sprinkled the start-up jingles into it. It would have been perfect if they had the SCE, THX style jingle play whenever I swipe the start screen to get to the home menu. In addition, I’m also planning to load up my Vita with a few PS1 games later this weekend.
Happy 20th anniversary PlayStation!
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