PlayStation Australia (Sony Computer Entertainment Australia) and Perisher are this week celebrating an 18-year partnership between the companies, with Olympic Skier Russ Henshaw taking to the air this week with a giant ice-replica DualShock 4 controller. The sculpture is located at the base of the Perisher PlayStation Terrain Park’s “hero jump”. A time lapse photo and image of Henshaw making the 60-foot jump with the sculpture attached to it can be found in this post.
This year, PlayStation and Perisher are also giving skiers and boarders the chance to design their dream PlayStation Slopestyle Park. The online competition lets entrants drag and drop features to create the perfect track line with the winner having their own design physically built at the park this season.
Peter Brulisauer | CEO of Perisher
Perisher’s PlayStation Terrain Park ranks amongst the best in the world and is the Premier Slopestyle Park in the southern hemisphere. Due to the great work the Perisher Terrain Park team have been doing the facility is truly world-class. This is attracting skiing and snowboarding Olympic and World Champions to Perisher to gain some valuable training time.
Michael Ephraim | Managing Director of Sony Computer Entertainment Australia
We said at the launch of PS4 that we are for the players but it doesn’t stop there. The PlayStation Slopestyle Park is the best place to play on the mountain this snow season. We’ve been told the success of a sponsorship on the mountain can be measured by how much signage is taken by snow lovers each season. Needless to say, we have replaced a great deal of PlayStation banners over our 18 years at Perisher which is a great sign that boarders and skiers make up for a solid part of our PlayStation gaming community.
Richard Phillips | Perisher Sales & Marketing Manager
The PlayStation ‘Design a Park’ competition is a great way to bring the terrain park conversation into the online environment with our guests. It’s a fantastic way to engage with guests and get good innovative ideas about what’s important for them in our terrain parks; we can then build fantastic features in our parks that are designed by our guests. It is fantastic to have a partner like PlayStation to help us bring these ideas to life.
