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  playstationCollecting the PS4 Before Nostalgia Beats You to ItSony built exactly 12,300 units of the 20th Anniversary PlayStation 4, painted them the same grey as the 1994 original, and watched them evaporate. That was December 2014 — barely a year into the generation. The PS4 announced it would be a collector's console almost immediately. Most of us were too busy playing Destiny to notice. Now the generation is properly over, and the window where PS4 hardware and print runs are still cheap and plentiful is closing the way these windows always do: slowly,
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  SanastoWhat a Slab Actually Tells You About a Sealed GameTwo sealed copies of the same game can lead completely different lives. One sits naked in a drawer, shrinkwrap intact, waiting to be believed. The other is entombed in acrylic with a label reading something like 9.4 A++ — and suddenly everyone at the meetup wants to hold it. If that label reads like tax code to you, here's the vocabulary, minus the mystique. Slab vs raw, and what the plastic really signals A slab is the tamper-evident acrylic case a grading company — WATA and VGA are the name
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  SanastoWhat CIB, Loose and Sealed Really Mean on a Game ListingSet two copies of Rayman for the original PlayStation side by side. The early North American printing lives in a tall cardboard long box, roughly the proportions of a VHS tape. The PAL copy sits in a standard CD jewel case. Both sellers can honestly describe theirs as “complete” — and they'd be promising you entirely different stacks of cardboard and paper. That's the trouble with collector shorthand. CIB, loose, sealed, NIB — the words sound precise, but what they actually cover shifts with pl