PlayStation is holding the best USB cable ever made hostage behind its PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary Bundle

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After the initial PS5 Pro reveal inflamed online gaming groups, Sony has managed to calm the waters with its PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary Collection. A Limited Edition version of the exorbitantly priced console designed after the glorious OG PlayStation, the nostalgia goggles have worked their magic once again.

While the grey-toned console and its adorable DualSense do look quite fantastic, the best part about the entire collection is actually an incredibly small detail. We’re not joking, it’s the included USB-C cable.

The glorious PS5 Pro USB cable

Included with the collection’s tat of stickers, posters and ugly-looking cable ties, Sony has crafted the USB-C cable to defeat all USB-C cables. Modelled after an original PlayStation controller, the USB-C cable ends with the beautifully chonky slab of grey plastic everyone over the age of 25 fell in love with.

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While it won’t replicate the feeling of slapping a controller into the satisfying ports of a PSOne, this USB cable may be exactly what ageing gamers like ourselves need to crawl out of the depressing hole that is 2024.

A PS1-style PS5 Pro USB-C charging cable resting on a white background.
When you first saw the PS1-style USB-C cable, were you blinded by its majesty? Oh, should we not do a Halo reference?

No, it doesn’t take away from the fact that the PS5 Pro price is daylight robbery, or the issues surrounding its lack of disc drive. It also won’t make any of us forget about the fact that Sony is wasting money on remastering Horizon Zero Dawn, or the days-long life of Concord. Also, the cable is still trapped behind some annoying restrictions.


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All or nothing

In order to be able to get your hands on the amazing, heart-warming, spiritually-healing USB-C cable, you need to purchase the entire PlayStation 5 Pro Console 30th Anniversary Limited Edition BundIe for an indeterminate amount of money. That’s right, you’ll need to get the console, its controller, its dumb paperclips, cable ties and posters in order to get the thing you really want: the USB-C cable.

The entire PS5 Pro 30th anniversary bundle lineup in a white background
There’s only one thing here we need. (Actually, one of those controllers would be pretty nifty, too.)

Listen, Sony, we will buy the cable on its own. Charge us £20 and throw in a sticker of Astro Bot and our money is yours. Please, let the cable be free, distanced from the limited 12,300 units of stuff we don’t need. If not, we will be forced to sail the AliExpress seas, and there’s a chance we won’t survive.

PlayStation 30th Anniversary pre-orders go live on September 26th, 2024, cable and all.

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Lewis White

Lewis White is a veteran games journalist with a decade of experience writing news, reviews, features and investigative pieces about game development with a focus on Halo and Xbox.