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  Stare & GradareHow to Grade a PS1 Disc Before You Buy or SellHold the disc under a lamp and tilt it. If the underside glows that deep, smoky black, you're holding the real thing — Sony pressed original PlayStation discs with black-tinted polycarbonate on the read side, and nearly thirty years on it's still the fastest authentication check in retro collecting. If it's silver, put it down. Everything else about grading a PS1 copy comes down to two honest questions: will it still play, and is it actually complete? Sellers blur both all the time. Here's how
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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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  playstationWhy PS3 Collectors Check the Model Number FirstFlip a fat PS3 over and read the sticker before you even glance at the disc tray. Those five characters — CECHA, CECHB, CECHC — decide what your library even is, because the PS3 is the rare console where the hardware revision matters more than most of the games it plays. Why collectors read stickers, not spec sheets The Japanese and North American launch units — the 60GB CECHA and 20GB CECHB from November 2006 — carry actual PlayStation 2 silicon on the board: the Emotion Engine CPU and Graph