Drake now owns Pharrell Williams’ $20,000 gold PlayStation
Hello, welcome, let’s take a break from industry news and global doom and talk about a rap video and a very, very expensive PlayStation Portable handheld.
Producer, rapper, and anime enthusiast Pharrell Williams was kind of notable a long time ago for owning a 14-karat gold Blackberry (I told you it was a long time ago). To keep the theme going, he bought a PSP in 2008 and “commissioned one 14K gold PSP case to replace the standard plastic”.
This shinier, a lot heavier PSP (coming in at 660 grams versus the 280 grams of a standard PSP) wasn’t designed to simply be carried around in its pockets; to complement the extravagance of the handheld itself – which wasn’t jewelry, he still used it to play games on –Pharrell also had a custom Goyard case made.
Why am I telling you this now, in 2023? Partly because I only just found out, and thought the idea of Pharrell Williams owning a gold PlayStation Portable is about the most “Last Days Of Rome” act of pre-GFC extravagance I can think of to put on this website in a feature that is all about the history of video games.
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I’m also telling you this in 2023 because that same PSP just showed up in a new one Drake video, next the Canadian rapper spent a few million dollars buying Pharrell’s old stuff, mostly jewelry,at an auction. The PSP is visible in seconds, waved to the screen at around 0:50 and comes very close to the camera at 1:29:
If you want to see more pictures of the PSP, here is the auction list (on Pharrell’s own auction site)showing that it sold for last year $19,375
