The PlayStation gaming console wrapped up its second decade on Wednesday , and Sony celebrated by looking to the past . The Japanese tech giant announced that a limited edition 20th Anniversary PlayStation 4 will be released soon . The console will be gray , like the first PlayStation released December 3 , 1994 in Japan . It will include other imagery like the iconic four-color PlayStation logo that harks back to the system 's history . `` The mid-'90s were an exciting time for game developers , driven by the explosion of powerful but affordable 3-D graphics rendering hardware and the birth of many young and adventurous development studios , '' Shuhei Yoshida , president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios , wrote in the post on the PlayStation blog . `` The original PlayStation was meant to embody that sense of adventure and discovery , that sense that anything was possible . '' The PlayStation sold a then unheard-of 100,000 units in its first weekend and hit 1 million units in six months , according to Sony . Only 12,300 units of the 20th Anniversary PS4 will be released , according to a video on the blog post . Pre-orders will begin Saturday , and details about how to vie for one of the handful of slots will come during a keynote presentation from PlayStation Experience , a fan and developer expo being held in Las Vegas . The keynote will be Saturday at 1 p.m . ET . To celebrate the 20th anniversary , we assembled a gallery of images of the PlayStation , and the people who love it , from the past two decades . Take a look , and let us know what you think in the comments below .
The Sony PlayStation was launched in Japan on December 3 , 1994 . Sony is releasing a limited-edition 20th Anniversary PlayStation 4 . Only 12,300 of the units will be sold .