It’s no secret at this point how hard it was to get a 30th Anniversary PS5 Pro not only in Australia but also in the US and Europe, with Australia locking the only available consoles behind the highest tier of EB Games’ membership program or a JB Hi-FI ballot.
PlayStation Japan had a great idea that probably still doesn’t help with the amount available, but at least left people knowing that only the most hardcore of PlayStation fans could get their hands on it.
To be eligible to purchase the 30th Anniversary PS5 Pro in Japan, you had to have a PlayStation Network account registered between February 22nd and September 19th 2024 (the time that the collection was announced) and played at least 30 hours between these two dates on either PS5 or PS4.
These people will go into a reservation system that lasts two weeks, and if the number of entrants exceeds what’s available, it’ll go into a lottery (much like the JB system).
Now, it’s still not a huge amount of time for potential entrants, and but I love the concept of making it so people can’t just make an account and grab one, which was similar to how EB Games did it, and secondly, that you had to actually have been playing games on PlayStation.
It also seems like you have to be logged in with this account to even make it into the store, so people can’t just be clogging up the system by window shopping other items which we do doubt saw happen at EB Games.
Here’s the exact stipulations from the PlayStation Japan website:
“Those who use PlayStation Network with a Sony account registered in Japan. The total time that either the PS5 or PS4, or both, is turned on for a total of 30 hours or more while signed in with the Sony account used to apply between Saturday, February 22, 2014 and Thursday, September 19, 2024 at 23:59.”
For those just after the standard PS5 Pro, you can currently pre-order it on Amazon with $0 deposit and pre-order price guarantee HERE.
