{"id":71022,"date":"2014-12-14T09:26:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T07:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=71022"},"modified":"2014-12-14T09:27:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T07:27:41","slug":"playstation-4-limited-edition-sells-for-r174000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/71022-playstation-4-limited-edition-sells-for-r174000","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation 4 limited edition sells for R174,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a go at PC gamers now and again about how much <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/70654-how-much-mygaming-readers-spend-on-their-pcs-survey-results.html\">money they spend<\/a> on their favourite pastime, but a recently purchased limited edition PlayStation 4 by a Sony fan makes the Master Race seem financially conservative.<\/p>\n<p>The limited edition PS4, which celebrates 20 years of PlayStation, sports the original PlayStation Grey and comes packed in a commemorative box. Only 12,300 were made, and this was one of the motivations for a shopper on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_sacat=0&amp;_nkw=playstation+4+anniversary&amp;_sop=16&amp;afsrc=1\" target=\"_blank\">eBay<\/a> spending R174,000 to secure one.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the pictures below, she is a pretty thing, but for that kind of money you could have bought a Yamaha R1 and crashed into a wall instead. That, or build your own <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/69841-large-pixel-collider-what-would-it-cost-in-sa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Large Pixel Collider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70856\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PlayStation-4-LE-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70856\" class=\"size-large wp-image-70856\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PlayStation-4-LE-1-600x334.jpg\" alt=\"PlayStation 4 Limited Edition\" width=\"600\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PlayStation-4-LE-1-600x334.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PlayStation-4-LE-1-267x150.jpg 267w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PlayStation-4-LE-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PlayStation 4 Limited Edition<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_70858\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PlayStation-4-LE-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70858\" class=\"size-large wp-image-70858\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PlayStation-4-LE-2-600x201.jpg\" alt=\"PlayStation 4 Limited Edition\" width=\"600\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PlayStation-4-LE-2-600x201.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PlayStation-4-LE-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PlayStation 4 Limited Edition<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The name of the\u00a0seller is only listed as\u00a0Technologysupp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough the item did sell, I had to inform my customer that we were actually going to get the console in late December, contrary to the dates posted in my listing [December 9th to December 13th],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The buyer had already sent the full amount via PayPal. \u201cMoney is in the bank. Sent him an eBay invoice with the grand total and was paid immediately via PayPal. No questions, doubts or anything,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>That guy must be a hardcore PS4 fan.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2014\/12\/08\/someone-paid-over-15k-for-the-anniversary-edition-of-playstation-4-on-ebay\/\" target=\"_blank\">VG24\/7<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/70998-asus-rog-matrix-gtx-980-coming-in-2015-sa-price-specs.html\">Asus ROG Matrix GTX 980 coming in 2015: SA price, specs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/70898-cougar-aluminium-gaming-keyboard-sa-price-details.html\">Cougar aluminium gaming keyboard: SA price, details<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/70632-alienware-alpha-a-gaming-console-made-for-pc-gamers.html\">Alienware Alpha: a gaming console made for PC gamers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And you thought PC gaming was expensive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":71024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[5592,21,239,1239],"class_list":["post-71022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-ebay","tag-headline","tag-limited-edition","tag-playstation-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71072,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71022\/revisions\/71072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}