Hello, welcome, let’s take a break from trade information and international doom and speak about a rap video and really, very costly PlayStation Moveable handheld.
Producer, rapper and anime fanatic Pharrell Williams was, a really very long time in the past, barely notable for proudly owning a 14-karat gold Blackberry (I instructed you it was a really very long time in the past). In 2008, to maintain the theme going, he purchased a PSP and “commissioned a 14K gold PSP casing to exchange the inventory plastic”.
This shinier, a lot heavier PSP (coming in at 660g vs a inventory PSP’s 280g) wasn’t designed to simply carry round in his pockets; to enhance the extravagance of the hand held itself—which wasn’t jewelry, he was nonetheless utilizing it to play video games on—Pharrell additionally had a customized Goyard case made up.
Why am I telling you this now, in 2023? Partly as a result of I solely simply came upon about it, and thought the thought of Pharrell Williams proudly owning a golden PlayStation Moveable is about essentially the most “Final Days Of Rome” act of pre-GFC extravagance I can consider sharing on this web site in a function that’s all about online game historical past.
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I’m additionally telling you this in 2023 as a result of that exact same PSP simply turned up in a brand new Drake video, after the Canadian rapper spent a couple of million bucks shopping for a few of Pharrell’s previous stuff—largely jewelry—at public sale. The PSP is seen only a few seconds in, will get waved on the display round 0:50 and will get very near the digital camera at 1:29:
In case you’d prefer to see extra pics of the PSP, right here’s the public sale itemizing (on Pharrell’s personal public sale web site), which reveals that it offered final 12 months for $19,375