Sony has announced a commemorative edition of the PlayStation 4 in celebration of PlayStation's 20th anniversary, reports the Verge.

The commemorative edition PS4 gaming system and accessories will be in the original gray color. A special box has been designed for the console. There are a limited number of units to be sold worldwide-12,300 to be exact, which is a number symbolic of PlayStation's launch date in Japan of Dec. 3, 1994, according to the Verge.

A post on Sony's PlayStation Blog today explains that it has been 20 years since the electronics and audio equipment manufacturer embarked on launching its first gaming system in the very competitive gaming market.

"The mid '90s were an exciting time for game developers, driven by the explosion of powerful but affordable 3D graphics rendering hardware and the birth of many young and adventurous development studios. The original PlayStation was meant to embody that sense of adventure and discovery, that sense that anything was possible," Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony's Worldwide Studios, stated in the blog post.

There was drama at the PlayStation launch back in 1994. The Guardian reports that before the North American launch of the PlayStation in 1995, President and CEO of Atari, Sam Tramiel, threatened to report Sony to the International Trade Commission if it priced the gaming system under $300. Tramiel, wanting to defend Atari's Jaguar console, said, "You can't have the Japanese consumer paying a fattened dollar price, then subsidize the product and dump it in the United States for $249 and kill the U.S. manufacturers. It's against the law." Sony ignored Tramiel's threat and launched the first-generation PS4 for $299 anyway.

Gamers hoping to snatch up a PlayStation 4 20th Anniversary edition can expect to pay $499 in the U.S., €499 in Europe and 49,980 Yen (excluding tax) in Japan.

Kotaku reports that gamers can get the anniversary console on sale at The PlayStation Experience this weekend in Las Vegas.

You can also pre-order your 20th Anniversary edition in the U.S. and Canada on Dec. 6.