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PS4 “DAYS OF PLAY” Console Unboxing (2019) Playstation 4 Limited Edition Steel Black

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A limited-run PS4 Slim just landed on camera, straight from Sony, still shrink-wrapped.

YouTuber TheRelaxingEnd got a box from Sony Interactive Entertainment and cracked it open on camera: the 2019 “Days of Play” Limited Edition PlayStation 4 Slim, a two-tone Steel Black console built to mark the third annual Days of Play sale. Sony announced the hardware on May 29, 2019, and put it on shelves globally June 7 for $299.99 — the same 1TB CUH-2200 chassis most PS4 Slim owners already know, just dressed up for the occasion.

• The Steel Black PS4 Slim (1TB, CUH-2200 series) launched June 7, 2019, for $299.99 USD (€299 / 29,980 yen), as the flagship hardware bundle for that year’s Days of Play event.
• Days of Play 2019 ran 11 days, from June 7 through June 17, marking the promotion’s third consecutive year.
• The unboxing shows a matching Steel Black DualShock 4 with monochrome buttons and silver shapes, plus an HDMI cable, AC power cord, micro-USB cable, wired mono chat headset, and printed documentation.

The Design Sony Landed On

Rather than a straight repaint, Sony split the shell into two finishes. The upper half gets a smooth Steel Black coat, while the lower chassis stays a darker gray — a combination the standard glossy-black PS4 Slim never offered. The top panel keeps the brushed hairline metal texture Sony has used on prior special editions specifically because it resists fingerprints better than the glossy jet-black finish on the base console.

The signature touch is on the top surface: the triangle, circle, cross, and square PlayStation button shapes, embossed and finished in silver instead of printed in their usual multicolor scheme. It’s a subtle callback that reads differently depending on the light hitting the case, and it’s the same visual language Sony has used across its limited-run console drops going back to earlier PS4 special editions.

Two-tone Steel Black on top, dark gray below, with the PlayStation shapes embossed in silver — no paint, no stickers, just the brushed metal-look finish carrying the whole design.

Contents of the Retail Box

Beyond the console itself, the unboxing runs through a standard PS4 retail kit dressed to match. The DualShock 4 wireless controller carries the identical Steel Black and dark gray split as the console, with monochrome face buttons and the same silver button shapes replacing the usual color-coded icons. Sony rounded out the box with an HDMI cable, an AC power cord, a micro-USB charging cable for the controller, a wired mono chat headset for party audio, and the printed quick-start documentation.

None of that is new to PS4 ownership — it’s the same accessory loadout Sony has shipped since the console’s original release — but pairing it with a matching controller finish is what turns a routine 1TB Slim into something worth unboxing on camera for a limited-edition audience.

The Significance of Days Play

Days of Play isn’t just a hardware refresh — it’s Sony’s mid-year sales event, running alongside price cuts on games, PlayStation Plus memberships, and accessories. The 2019 run from June 7 to June 17 marked the third straight year Sony used the promotion to move both software discounts and a special-edition console, following the pattern set by the two previous Days of Play editions. The Steel Black Slim was the hardware hook meant to get shoppers into PlayStation Stores and online retailers during that 11-day window.

For anyone tracking how Sony dresses up its hardware lineup heading into a console generation shift, this kind of limited paint job sits alongside other PS4-era design experiments — and it’s worth comparing against Sony’s early messaging around the PS5 DualSense controller, which took the two-tone concept even further for the next generation.

The Steel Black Slim was never meant to stick around — it was a Days-of-Play-only run tied to that 11-day window in June 2019, and once the promotion ended on June 17, Sony moved back to its standard black and white PS4 Slim lineup on store shelves.