Sony Officially Announces PlayStation 5 Console Covers, Coming January 2022

Back in Novem­ber, Sony filed a patent that implied they were plan­ning on releas­ing replace­ment face­plates. The com­pa­ny reg­is­tered doc­u­ments for an “orna­men­tal design for a cov­er for an elec­tron­ic device,” with dia­grams of the PS5 face­plates includ­ed for illus­tra­tive purposes.

Well, it’s now offi­cial. Sony has announced a new series of PS5 con­soles cov­ers, which will be priced at $55. They will come in col­or schemes Mid­night Black, Starlight Blue, Galac­tic Pur­ple, Nova Pink, and Cos­mic Red. Sony says these “galaxy-inspired” col­ors will start to launch glob­al­ly in Jan­u­ary 2022 at par­tic­i­pat­ing retailers.

It’s super easy to apply these plates. Just pop off the exist­ing white plates and snap on the the col­or of your choice, and you’re good. 

In addi­tion to these new col­ored face­plates, Sony is also releas­ing a new set of col­ored DualSense con­trollers. These share col­ors with the plates, so they will be avail­able in Nova Pink, Starlight Blue, and Galac­tic Purple. 

Pre­vi­ous­ly, the only way to cus­tomize a PS5 was to paint it your­self or pur­chase a third-par­ty options from com­pa­nies like Dbrand, which offered “Dark­plates” for $50. The com­pa­ny has attract­ed Sony’s legal team, catch­ing a new legal threat from Sony’s lawyers, result­ing in Dbrand shut­ting down all Dark­plate pro­duc­tion. They did, how­ev­er, replace the Dark­plates with Dark­plate 2.0 shells.

If you’re look­ing to snag one of these offi­cial PS5 face­plates, Sony has pre­orders up right now on their web­site. How­ev­er, Mid­night Black and Cos­mic Red are only avail­able at this point.