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PS5 Dev Kits Quickly Pulled From Ebay

Sony PlayStation 5 development units were yanked almost as soon as they appeared

 

 

Earlier today, a pair of PlayStation 5 development kits reportedly popped up on eBay before being taken off the auction site within a few hours.

 

The items—a DFI-D1000AA dev kit and a DFI-T1000AA test kit—were originally spotted by Twitter users Zuby Tech and iDCx1337, both of whom were able to pull images from the listing prior to its disappearance. A screenshot of the eBay page indicates that the two consoles managed to reach €2,850 EUR (around $3,373 USD) after 12 bids.

 

 

While the test kit appears almost identical to retail PlayStation 5 models (well, apart from the large TEST stamp on the back, of course), images of the dev kit highlight the unique V-shaped construction used in pre-release patents. That thing is a beast, and even manages to look like a car engine when positioned vertically. Also photographed for the short-lived eBay listing were two all-black DualSense controllers, contrasting the more prominent two-toned color schemes of the peripheral’s currently available designs.

 

eBay is typically rife with auctions for retro dev kits and even illegal reproduction cartridges, or games that have been produced by a third party without permission from the original publishers for use in consoles and handhelds. With that in mind, it’s not clear what rule, if any, this auction broke. It’s also possible that eBay simply cooperated with a request from Sony, which obviously doesn’t want these things out in the wild so soon after the PlayStation 5’s release, to remove the listing.

 

 

Read the full article on Kotaku

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