@@akmaldanial67exactly Xbox to Xbox 360 cause they said they didn’t want to call it Xbox 2 cause it would’ve felt Behind Then Xbox one. Going in complete reverse about what they said with 360 Then series x. Like bruh.
I was actually having a terrible day and I got really excited to have a new Scott's Stash video to watch, but now that I have been reminded of the inconsistency of the ps3 boxes, I have depression.
The "PS4" style boxes from PS3 reminds me of what happened with the Master System in Brazil. It started with the white boxes like everywhere else but when SEGA changed the Genesis boxes in the US to red they changed the Master System boxes to blue, but only in Brazil. The most interesting part of the story is that when they were in the transition period some games like Sonic Spinball had a half white half blue boxes where the white part fates half way through the box given way to the new blue style Something odd also happened with the Genesis/Mega drive. In Europe there wasn’t a rebranding to red but it happened in Brazil where the console is called Mega drive. So Sonic 3 has the American Box with “Mega Drive” written in the red corner and it looks very weird.
Curiously, I don't think Europe even got those blue PS3 cases? At least I haven't encountered any. E.g. AC Rogue came out in late 2014 and still had the black logo. Also, 1st party PS3 Sony games in Europe used generic fonts for the spines instead the actual logos. WHYYYYY... IT'S SO UGLYYYYY...
PS3 cases using the blue border like the Vita and PS4 was a bad move. I remember going to GameStop, buying a copy of Dynasty Warriors 8. The box said PS4, it was listed in GS’s system as a PS4 game. I got home, put the disc in my console and a message that said something like “PS3 game discs are not compatible with the PS4”. I ejected the disc, saw it said PS3 on it, despite it being in a PS4 box. I brought it back to the store to return it, assuming they accidentally gave me the wrong version, but the employee was surprised too, and explained to me it was registered in their system as a PS4 game due to the blue border
@@timelymirror7826 Yeah but nobody owns or plays the ps5, ans those that do, half of them can't even buy and use physical games so what the boxes look like in the store or on an almost entirely empty shelf at home doesn't even matter.
personally, I liked the PS3 using the Spider-Man font, it looked real sleek the current iteration is also well-designed, just didn't get the distaste for it
When I was a kid (and a BIG fan of Spiderman Raimin trilogy) I never understood why they chose that font for the PS3. And I kindly remember I didn't liked it
I love the original PS3 branding. The absurdly overdesigned logo, the super heavy, shiny, original fat model, the boomerang controllers that we never got to touch, the press conference full of lies and half-truth about it's capabilities... it made the thing seem really futuristic, like it was decades ahead of the competition. In contrast the more traditional logo, slimmer model and normal looking controllers made it seem just like a slightly improved PS2.
The thing i like the most about the first two box templates is how the gradients and logos match up with the designs of the consoles. Glossy for the fat PS3, Matte for the slim PS3
I watched a video from the channel Mystic about the history of PlayStation boxes, and there's one he has that was like a dual release, you bought the game on PS3 and you got it for PS4 as well, so the spine has both PS3 and PS4 printed on it
Yeah forgot about that! Call of Duty: Ghosts and Assassins Creed: Black Flag were 2 of them. EA, Activision, and Ubisoft all had a $10 upgrade program for newer PS3 blu-ray discs to work as a key on a PS4 to download + play the PS4 version. Doom Eternal and Hitman 3 on PS4 work like this on the PS5, but without the $10 charge 👌
my physical ps3 collection only consists of the guitar hero and rock band series, having them sorted by release order makes all the spine labels match up LOL
Fun facts the Xbox 360 lines on the case were grey if it was only single player and green & grey if it was single player and multiplayer. That was used since 2005.
Glad to see a big channel finally talk about this! The original "spider-man" style was used up until October 2009 and was fully phased out by December 2009. The first "revision" artwork was released September of 2009, so you had approx a 3 month overlap of the releases. The lovely blue labels were only around for 5 months and saw a total of 14 releases (Feb 2014 to June 2014). Theres also Digitales and Favoritos which are silver and gold respectively, and greatest hits as well, safe to say there is a LOT of variation in the PS3 designs for sure!
I love this channel because you're the only person who obsessed about how the boxes look when next to each other. I would've never known about the 3ds red logo problems if not for you. And now I know about "Original PS3 logo boxes with the Playstation logo ingrained in the top of the plastic, vs the ones that don't have it".
The PS3 has most polarized box designs. I hated the original Spider-Man font box design, which was during the infamous 2006 era, but I loved the later PS3 era before the launch of PS4, then they screwed up again with the blue label which was confusing, because the PS3 cross gen games nearly identical with the box art!
I bought a PS3 for the first time a few years ago after always wanting one and the different logos on the boxart really made me curious to learn more about Sony during that time period. I was more familar with the Wii and 360 so it's nice to see you cover how and why Sony kept changing their ps3 boxes.
@@brewster-musicWhat I recommend you do is organize them half and half, on with the OG header in alphabetical order, and the other with the newer header in alphabetical order
Other things that changed with the switch to blue (which also carried over into the post-blue black boxes): The Playstation Network logo on the front, and the accompanying banner on the back were removed (it was present on almost every PS3 game prior because Trophies counted as a PSN feature.) The "Only on Playstation" logo on applicable games was updated to the PS4 style and moved into the spot the PSN logo vacated in the banner instead of being a bubble handing off the banner. The region code logo on the spine no longer specifies a region, simply saying "ALL" instead of having a number. (Some of the very last games on the system actually removed the logo from the spine all together and put it on the back of the box instead.) The banner is like 1-2 millimeters thinner (about the width of the red/white line on the bottom of the banner) for no apparent reason. You literally have to hold the raw box art sheets on top of each other to see the difference. The Playstation move branding is absent even on titles that require it. (Everybody Dance 3) Bonus: Almost all of these changes were also applied to PSVita cases around the same time, it just doesn't stick out as much since the PSVita boxes were already blue.
Another bonus mention: Only 12 North American (ESRB rated) retail games, as well as a Digital Only Physical version of NBA 2K14 (which came with codes for the PS3 and PS4 versions and included both logos on its spine) and a cardboard-sleeved pack-in copy of the God of War Collection (that doesn't seem to have a known console bundle it came with), were printed with the blue box design before they switched back. I have to specify North American/ESRB rated because one of the titles in question (Everybody Dance 3) was only released physically in Mexico.
The saving grace of the PS3's boxes are the boxes themselves. The clear Blu-Ray cases are quite possibly my favourite media-housing slab of plastic since cassette tapes.
If I were to perfect the PS3 box designs, I would take the front of the first design with the Spider-Man font, and the side of the second designs. I like the one with the Spider-Man font! It looks sleek and futuristic. If it were those two, then I'd be satisfied.
5:42 He’s comparing these to flash games, but i honestly get 2000s DVD menu game vibes from these a little bit. Obviously more interactive than those menu games, but still kind of whatever experiences.
Also on the PS3, There are some re-prints of some games ( I have some of them ) that has different cases where on the side where you put your fingers to open has these added plastic bits. Making it a bit more awkward ( to me at least ).
I typically don't like when consoles change box templates partway through. I think you have to stick with it once you've started. The PS3 is probably the worst example of it, but I'm also not big into the Dreamcast changing from white to black, or the PS1 outright changing box size and shape. I get why they do it, but it just rubs me wrong.
@@coldramentpm1013 So the companies are exempt from criticism of their changes? Pretty much any mid-generation change I've seen has been needless at best; there's no "improvement" to be had. It's almost always done for marketing purposes and in the end only serves to make the cases irksomely inconsistent.
I loved the original PS3 font, heck I think they should make a font similar to it when the PS6 comes out. The current one is okay but I think that would be a great refresh for Sony to do.
Funny timing here, I just got my first PS3 literally a few weeks ago from an eBay auction. Revisiting some old game stores, this was the first thing I noticed buying games for it
The blue spines were during the launch of the PS4 to show games that are also available on the PS4 they only did blue spines for the first 2 months and they were only for the games that also had a PS4 release. I collected all the old blue case lists on a Facebook back in the day it was really fun to find these uncertain one-offs in special collector editions and demo sleeves
I know that a few games from late 2013 on PS3 had a limited-time download code for a PS4 version (which you'd need the PS3 disc to play for DRM reasons). I know my copies of "Call of Duty: Ghosts" and "Injustice: Gods Among Us" have these download codes/abilities. Another one that did that was NBA 2K14, which had the blue header. But the spine had both the PS3 AND PS4 logos, despite the PS4 version being a limited-time offer (yet stuck on the box art in perpetuity).
In Brazil things were a little worse. When they started manufacturing media here in 2011, the boxes were much simpler and different, and they started to remove the manuals much earlier, even for games already released that originally had a manual, and put usage and warranty information on the back cover. On the PS4 and PS5 it gets worse when they were games that have two discs, the box was the same as the PS3 but blue, that is, that upper part of the plastic and the cover of the game was much smaller.
The PlayStation move thing is actually kinda useful, I found my old move controller and was looking for some games to try it on, i found resident evil 5 pretty quickly and revisiting it was a joy
It is interesting that the US PS3 cases appear to be more like the standard bluray cases used in Australia and other countries. I never noticed because all our cases are that thick but it must have been weird considering US bluray cases are thinner.
I mean that's just a recent name zoomers came up with, it wasn't a conscious "movement" at the time. It's just that everything was trying to look modern by being as shiny as possible
I only have one blue colored game and that is Everybody Dance 3, essentially 2 with DLC songs, only released in Latin America because I assume barely anyone here knew how to buy DLC
It gets even weirder when some versions of games are released with one logo and then later printings have another (LittleBigPlanet GOTY and the Not For Resale version of Guitar Hero Van Halen come to mind)
Or how about when the BOX of the game has the older logo and the underside of the DISC has the new one? (CoD Modern Warfare 2, Band Hero, and Rock Band Metal Track Pack do this)
I really like the original Spider-Man font logo. The sleek, futuristic PS3 advertising was really distinctive and cool. The updated version are kinda bland.
I was 2 when the PS3 came out and was obsessed with the Raimi Spider-Man like any other kid at the time and since I couldn’t read yet I learned logos and fonts to recognize different series and franchises I liked and when the PS3 came out and I saw the font I was confused because I thought it was a Spider-Man thing but was even more confused that he wasn’t on the box
I work at a used game store and the red logo vs updated one irritates me to no end when they're on the shelf together. thanks for confirming my rage and making a video about this
oh thank goodness this was real, I though I was imagining this. It does explain why I liked the first version, the ps1 nostalgia got me. When it went blue I lost interest. Playstation was black and white to perfection. The blue felt weird.
I alphabetize by spine style. If I want to find Fallout 3, that's in the old red PS3 section. If I want New Vegas, that's in the black PS3 section. Drakengard 3? Yep, blue section.
Here in the UK, the PS3 game cases are blue exactly the same colour but they are blue. Oh by the way some of them were just for some reason sold in default Blu-ray blue cases with a PlayStation cover and some of them were like legit branded Blu-ray blue case things.
What town does Scott live in where the newspaper felt it was important enough to make the PS4 and XBox One launch front page material, but also wasn't able to get the right XBox?
I haven't had a working PS3 since 2013 when my second 40 gig model YLOD'd. First one died during a massive power surge years earlier. I genuinely wasn't aware of there being blue PS4 style boxes until today with your video. I still have a majority of my collection and the only boxes I have are with either the Spider-Man 3 font or the font that came after 2009 with the slim.
I remember my first encounter with a blue PS3 header. It was when I saw Mugen Souls Z. While I like blue and wasn't even aware of the PS4 at the time, I was still bewildered on why was it blue.
i coulda sworn i heard somewhere that the Spider-Man font was used as a cross promo for spider-man 3 since that was coming out not too long after the ps3 did
In regards to the Sly move functionality . . . I think they saved it from having a fate like Lair. In the long term, would you of wanted forced Move controls on what was an an already tight and accurate PS2 platformer with stealth mechanics that was marketed as an HD version of the trilogy?
One of the more recent worst box design inconsistencies for me is how Brazil handles PS4/PS5 games with two disks. I don't know why they do this, if it is to cut costs or what, but when games have more than one disk they actually use the smaller Blu-ray boxes for them instead of the actual PlayStation boxes and it is infuriating. Be glad you don't have to live with this. Also, I love the original branding of the PS3 with the Spider-Man font. I find it so iconic and super nostalgic of that era, the new one is just kinda bland. I love having the games in that old style for my collection.
4:20 You forgot Sony went through three different Longbox versions before adopting a standard cd jewel case format. I just took a look at my like 35ish game ps3 collection and I only have one of the Move games and one of the blue ps4 style cases, most everything else is either the og case or the black ps3 logo on the spine. To be fair, if you want to use the Move its nice to see whether the game supports the thing from the spine. Surprised you didn't mention Greatest Hits in this video, or something like Red Dead goty with the black case. I have one of each red and black cases.
"they're not fuckin' around this time..." I think their WILDLY CONFUSING and SCARY Adverts for the PS3 made that clear. LIKE HOLY COW... I mean, it's not as bad as when Sony announced a White PSPGo where a white lady held a black man (I was told it was another lady) in her clutches and the tag line, no joke, was; "WHITE IS COMING". I remember seeing that in Chicago.
Seriously. What must have happened to their marketing team to go from "market this console out of the gutter" to "market this console into the gutter".
As a playstation collector, it hurts so bad. I love ps3 being clear cases so much... but the damn switching logo... i just wish the earlier ones didnt use a red bit at the top
It's the 1 year anniversary of my friends death and we had a little ceremony today and this was the first video I watched when I got home and the intro actually made me die laughing. Thank you scott!
thank you scott for finally speaking out about this. I know you’re gonna get a lot of hate, but the ps3 box community really appreciates it
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@@theharvardyard2356 perfect reply lol
Sony really did everything they could to make the PS3 as confusing as possible
Not as confusing as XBox One Series X blah blah all that
9:22 xbox was just as bad lmao
Nah...the naming convention for the Xbox consoles were more confusing 😂
At least Sony is consistent with console names
Ps1
Ps2
PS3
PS4
Ps5
All consistent
Xbox on the other hand
@@akmaldanial67exactly
Xbox to Xbox 360 cause they said they didn’t want to call it Xbox 2 cause it would’ve felt Behind
Then Xbox one. Going in complete reverse about what they said with 360
Then series x. Like bruh.
I was actually having a terrible day and I got really excited to have a new Scott's Stash video to watch, but now that I have been reminded of the inconsistency of the ps3 boxes, I have depression.
Don't worry all you have to do is follow his advice on owning Sonic Forces, just don't buy any ps3 game and you're safe
.... all this doesn't really get to me. But those RED P-tape looking PS3 Greatest Hit boxes are attrocious 💀
@@TexasHollowEarthbro they are gorgeous
The "PS4" style boxes from PS3 reminds me of what happened with the Master System in Brazil. It started with the white boxes like everywhere else but when SEGA changed the Genesis boxes in the US to red they changed the Master System boxes to blue, but only in Brazil. The most interesting part of the story is that when they were in the transition period some games like Sonic Spinball had a half white half blue boxes where the white part fates half way through the box given way to the new blue style
Something odd also happened with the Genesis/Mega drive. In Europe there wasn’t a rebranding to red but it happened in Brazil where the console is called Mega drive. So Sonic 3 has the American Box with “Mega Drive” written in the red corner and it looks very weird.
Brazil also have PS3 games releases as the FAVORITOS with a Gold logo case
Curiously, I don't think Europe even got those blue PS3 cases? At least I haven't encountered any.
E.g. AC Rogue came out in late 2014 and still had the black logo.
Also, 1st party PS3 Sony games in Europe used generic fonts for the spines instead the actual logos. WHYYYYY... IT'S SO UGLYYYYY...
@@ThePreciseClimberyou're right, the blue spine was exclusive to US
@@wesleiboteroThe FAVORITOS ones are horribly printed.
@@schimnesthaiunhinged yes
PS3 cases using the blue border like the Vita and PS4 was a bad move. I remember going to GameStop, buying a copy of Dynasty Warriors 8. The box said PS4, it was listed in GS’s system as a PS4 game. I got home, put the disc in my console and a message that said something like “PS3 game discs are not compatible with the PS4”. I ejected the disc, saw it said PS3 on it, despite it being in a PS4 box. I brought it back to the store to return it, assuming they accidentally gave me the wrong version, but the employee was surprised too, and explained to me it was registered in their system as a PS4 game due to the blue border
Those were confusing for people at least the PS5 banner isn't blue
@@timelymirror7826hello fellow persona 5 fan
@@timelymirror7826 Yeah but nobody owns or plays the ps5, ans those that do, half of them can't even buy and use physical games so what the boxes look like in the store or on an almost entirely empty shelf at home doesn't even matter.
@JohnSmith-fq3rg The ps5 sold 50 millions, a lot of people own it despite no games
@@JohnSmith-fq3rg Huh, today I learned "50 million" is a synonym for "nobody". English sure is weird!
personally, I liked the PS3 using the Spider-Man font, it looked real sleek
the current iteration is also well-designed, just didn't get the distaste for it
Yeah but the fat OG PS3 consoles overheated badly. Mine went YLOD twice. It's in my attic ☠
I dont think its hated its just its funny so we all make fun of it
When I was a kid (and a BIG fan of Spiderman Raimin trilogy) I never understood why they chose that font for the PS3. And I kindly remember I didn't liked it
@@TexasHollowEarthCan I buy it?
I love the original PS3 branding. The absurdly overdesigned logo, the super heavy, shiny, original fat model, the boomerang controllers that we never got to touch, the press conference full of lies and half-truth about it's capabilities... it made the thing seem really futuristic, like it was decades ahead of the competition. In contrast the more traditional logo, slimmer model and normal looking controllers made it seem just like a slightly improved PS2.
The thing i like the most about the first two box templates is how the gradients and logos match up with the designs of the consoles. Glossy for the fat PS3, Matte for the slim PS3
Scott is a chocolate box of inconsistent consistency, wavering between too inconsistent (PS3 cases) and too consistent (Switch cases).
lifes like a box of chocolates, you never know what you gonna get
The Switch cases would be awesome if they were a bit thicker to give the title on the spines space to have some flavor
@@Luigi_Madyoyou suck
you know what i like about gex? consistency
The title on the spines sometimes are formatted to the center or to the right, that makes them inconsistent enough to be annoying.
I watched a video from the channel Mystic about the history of PlayStation boxes, and there's one he has that was like a dual release, you bought the game on PS3 and you got it for PS4 as well, so the spine has both PS3 and PS4 printed on it
Yeah forgot about that! Call of Duty: Ghosts and Assassins Creed: Black Flag were 2 of them. EA, Activision, and Ubisoft all had a $10 upgrade program for newer PS3 blu-ray discs to work as a key on a PS4 to download + play the PS4 version. Doom Eternal and Hitman 3 on PS4 work like this on the PS5, but without the $10 charge 👌
My favorite sub-genre of videos on TH-cam, men named Scott ranting about video game box designs
What a niche subgenre
What other Scotts are there?
I like how the persona 5 box went back after the MLB game
my physical ps3 collection only consists of the guitar hero and rock band series, having them sorted by release order makes all the spine labels match up LOL
Fun facts the Xbox 360 lines on the case were grey if it was only single player and green & grey if it was single player and multiplayer.
That was used since 2005.
Then the Platinum Hits boxes came
Glad to see a big channel finally talk about this!
The original "spider-man" style was used up until October 2009 and was fully phased out by December 2009.
The first "revision" artwork was released September of 2009, so you had approx a 3 month overlap of the releases.
The lovely blue labels were only around for 5 months and saw a total of 14 releases (Feb 2014 to June 2014).
Theres also Digitales and Favoritos which are silver and gold respectively, and greatest hits as well, safe to say there is a LOT of variation in the PS3 designs for sure!
I can say with complete sincerity, The Spider-man font use on the fat ps3 model made me complete loyal to Sony at 6 or 7 years old
This is why I like this Scitt guy, he says what we're all thinking!
True!
Scitt the wiz
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Omg Scott was right I can’t unsee it as the Spider-Man format anymore and I always loved the og font and now all I can see is Spider-Man 😂
Looking back . I’m Nostalgic as hell for the OG fat ps3 . The black . The chrome . The Spider-Man font … the og game boxes … oh hell yes
I love this channel because you're the only person who obsessed about how the boxes look when next to each other. I would've never known about the 3ds red logo problems if not for you. And now I know about "Original PS3 logo boxes with the Playstation logo ingrained in the top of the plastic, vs the ones that don't have it".
The PS3 has most polarized box designs. I hated the original Spider-Man font box design, which was during the infamous 2006 era, but I loved the later PS3 era before the launch of PS4, then they screwed up again with the blue label which was confusing, because the PS3 cross gen games nearly identical with the box art!
The first ps3 box art template is my favorite because i like the way it looks better than the revision template.
Same
Yeah, I liked how it stood out from everything else. It was bold.
I bought a PS3 for the first time a few years ago after always wanting one and the different logos on the boxart really made me curious to learn more about Sony during that time period. I was more familar with the Wii and 360 so it's nice to see you cover how and why Sony kept changing their ps3 boxes.
Yeah, sort of makes my game shelf in the ps3 section look a touch bit inconsistent.
As much as it annoys me I just ended up splitting them and organizing them in their own segments.
@@brewster-musicWhat I recommend you do is organize them half and half, on with the OG header in alphabetical order, and the other with the newer header in alphabetical order
Other things that changed with the switch to blue (which also carried over into the post-blue black boxes):
The Playstation Network logo on the front, and the accompanying banner on the back were removed (it was present on almost every PS3 game prior because Trophies counted as a PSN feature.)
The "Only on Playstation" logo on applicable games was updated to the PS4 style and moved into the spot the PSN logo vacated in the banner instead of being a bubble handing off the banner.
The region code logo on the spine no longer specifies a region, simply saying "ALL" instead of having a number. (Some of the very last games on the system actually removed the logo from the spine all together and put it on the back of the box instead.)
The banner is like 1-2 millimeters thinner (about the width of the red/white line on the bottom of the banner) for no apparent reason. You literally have to hold the raw box art sheets on top of each other to see the difference.
The Playstation move branding is absent even on titles that require it. (Everybody Dance 3)
Bonus: Almost all of these changes were also applied to PSVita cases around the same time, it just doesn't stick out as much since the PSVita boxes were already blue.
Another bonus mention: Only 12 North American (ESRB rated) retail games, as well as a Digital Only Physical version of NBA 2K14 (which came with codes for the PS3 and PS4 versions and included both logos on its spine) and a cardboard-sleeved pack-in copy of the God of War Collection (that doesn't seem to have a known console bundle it came with), were printed with the blue box design before they switched back.
I have to specify North American/ESRB rated because one of the titles in question (Everybody Dance 3) was only released physically in Mexico.
I like how the original box design highlights the "PS3" in PlayStation 3, it's a neat touch
it is genuyinely so glorious getting scott woz videos literally every few days. i could have only imagined this 2 years ago
PS3 Logo typography; reason? “Because they liked it.”, honestly. I think that makes the reason that much better.
I never thought I’d find another soul that actually played the Sly Collection’s mini games with the Move controllers 🙏
The saving grace of the PS3's boxes are the boxes themselves. The clear Blu-Ray cases are quite possibly my favourite media-housing slab of plastic since cassette tapes.
If I were to perfect the PS3 box designs, I would take the front of the first design with the Spider-Man font, and the side of the second designs. I like the one with the Spider-Man font! It looks sleek and futuristic. If it were those two, then I'd be satisfied.
I definitely preferred the logo on the side instead of at the top but I like the non-red logo on the spine.
5:42 He’s comparing these to flash games, but i honestly get 2000s DVD menu game vibes from these a little bit. Obviously more interactive than those menu games, but still kind of whatever experiences.
Also on the PS3, There are some re-prints of some games ( I have some of them ) that has different cases where on the side where you put your fingers to open has these added plastic bits. Making it a bit more awkward ( to me at least ).
I typically don't like when consoles change box templates partway through. I think you have to stick with it once you've started. The PS3 is probably the worst example of it, but I'm also not big into the Dreamcast changing from white to black, or the PS1 outright changing box size and shape. I get why they do it, but it just rubs me wrong.
The 360 was even worse, even their platinum hits line having 3 or 4 variations itself.
so hopelessly oldheaded that you demand that a company never redesigns or improves their products
@@coldramentpm1013 So the companies are exempt from criticism of their changes? Pretty much any mid-generation change I've seen has been needless at best; there's no "improvement" to be had. It's almost always done for marketing purposes and in the end only serves to make the cases irksomely inconsistent.
Fun fact: some PS4 games early in the console’s lifespan actually had the smaller, PS3 sized boxes instead, for some reason.
Man PS3 was a weird time to be a Collector. Damn boarders changed so much Ridiculous 😂
I loved the original PS3 font, heck I think they should make a font similar to it when the PS6 comes out. The current one is okay but I think that would be a great refresh for Sony to do.
Funny timing here, I just got my first PS3 literally a few weeks ago from an eBay auction. Revisiting some old game stores, this was the first thing I noticed buying games for it
the aesthetics of physical media is my favorite topic thank you once again Scott The
The blue spines were during the launch of the PS4 to show games that are also available on the PS4 they only did blue spines for the first 2 months and they were only for the games that also had a PS4 release. I collected all the old blue case lists on a Facebook back in the day it was really fun to find these uncertain one-offs in special collector editions and demo sleeves
I know that a few games from late 2013 on PS3 had a limited-time download code for a PS4 version (which you'd need the PS3 disc to play for DRM reasons). I know my copies of "Call of Duty: Ghosts" and "Injustice: Gods Among Us" have these download codes/abilities. Another one that did that was NBA 2K14, which had the blue header. But the spine had both the PS3 AND PS4 logos, despite the PS4 version being a limited-time offer (yet stuck on the box art in perpetuity).
Im gonna be completely honest, the Spiderman PS3 font always looked so cool to me. And i still love it.
In Brazil things were a little worse. When they started manufacturing media here in 2011, the boxes were much simpler and different, and they started to remove the manuals much earlier, even for games already released that originally had a manual, and put usage and warranty information on the back cover.
On the PS4 and PS5 it gets worse when they were games that have two discs, the box was the same as the PS3 but blue, that is, that upper part of the plastic and the cover of the game was much smaller.
The PlayStation move thing is actually kinda useful, I found my old move controller and was looking for some games to try it on, i found resident evil 5 pretty quickly and revisiting it was a joy
It is interesting that the US PS3 cases appear to be more like the standard bluray cases used in Australia and other countries. I never noticed because all our cases are that thick but it must have been weird considering US bluray cases are thinner.
The aesthetic implemented by the PS3 is called "Frutiger Aero". It's a common design theme thru-out the 2000s
I mean that's just a recent name zoomers came up with, it wasn't a conscious "movement" at the time. It's just that everything was trying to look modern by being as shiny as possible
I only have one blue colored game and that is Everybody Dance 3, essentially 2 with DLC songs, only released in Latin America because I assume barely anyone here knew how to buy DLC
It gets even weirder when some versions of games are released with one logo and then later printings have another (LittleBigPlanet GOTY and the Not For Resale version of Guitar Hero Van Halen come to mind)
Or how about when the BOX of the game has the older logo and the underside of the DISC has the new one?
(CoD Modern Warfare 2, Band Hero, and Rock Band Metal Track Pack do this)
5:24 I always figured that was the reason why Kinect games for the 360 came in that violet purple case
The late release PS3 games also lack the region symbol at the bottom of the spine that literally every other NTSC PS3 game has.
we knew it was the spider man font but it was so futuristic back then
I just wish they stuck with ps1 jewel cases for all generations
Crack city
I really like the original Spider-Man font logo. The sleek, futuristic PS3 advertising was really distinctive and cool. The updated version are kinda bland.
I waited for my phone to charge from 0 so that I could watch this while I showered
I was 2 when the PS3 came out and was obsessed with the Raimi Spider-Man like any other kid at the time and since I couldn’t read yet I learned logos and fonts to recognize different series and franchises I liked and when the PS3 came out and I saw the font I was confused because I thought it was a Spider-Man thing but was even more confused that he wasn’t on the box
Sony used the Spiderman font because they had the rights to it. That's literally the main reason
Never even seen that Blue variant of the Boxart before, Persona 5 on PS3 came out in 2017 and the label was Black
First box art from the left side logo and spiderman 3 font ps3 most coolest ones
I work at a used game store and the red logo vs updated one irritates me to no end when they're on the shelf together. thanks for confirming my rage and making a video about this
I could literally listen to this man describe paint drying.
At least with the 360 redesign, it is to help signify the Xbox One are backwards compatible with 360. The PS4 doesn't have that connection.
oh thank goodness this was real, I though I was imagining this. It does explain why I liked the first version, the ps1 nostalgia got me.
When it went blue I lost interest. Playstation was black and white to perfection. The blue felt weird.
I alphabetize by spine style. If I want to find Fallout 3, that's in the old red PS3 section. If I want New Vegas, that's in the black PS3 section. Drakengard 3? Yep, blue section.
I just read the description and WOW… I couldn’t tell this was recorded over a year ago!
Here in the UK, the PS3 game cases are blue exactly the same colour but they are blue. Oh by the way some of them were just for some reason sold in default Blu-ray blue cases with a PlayStation cover and some of them were like legit branded Blu-ray blue case things.
In my PS3 collection I organize all the PS3 games with the header to make it look somewhat nicer.
This channel really shows how much Scott actually loves games and it’s nice to see.
Someone take a shot for every time he says "ps3"....I'll attend your funeral😂
What town does Scott live in where the newspaper felt it was important enough to make the PS4 and XBox One launch front page material, but also wasn't able to get the right XBox?
I haven't had a working PS3 since 2013 when my second 40 gig model YLOD'd. First one died during a massive power surge years earlier.
I genuinely wasn't aware of there being blue PS4 style boxes until today with your video. I still have a majority of my collection and the only boxes I have are with either the Spider-Man 3 font or the font that came after 2009 with the slim.
I LOVE THAT THESE COMES OUT SO OFTEN ITS AWESOME
i was just today thinking about this issue and man scott uploads a video!!! love it!
The sequel to the Xbox cases video that I never knew I needed
I remember my first encounter with a blue PS3 header. It was when I saw Mugen Souls Z. While I like blue and wasn't even aware of the PS4 at the time, I was still bewildered on why was it blue.
i coulda sworn i heard somewhere that the Spider-Man font was used as a cross promo for spider-man 3 since that was coming out not too long after the ps3 did
9:20 Is that some sort of post credit scene?
I have a lot of nostalgia for the old PS3 box design with the Spider-Man font
9:14 fin.
In regards to the Sly move functionality . . . I think they saved it from having a fate like Lair.
In the long term, would you of wanted forced Move controls on what was an an already tight and accurate PS2 platformer with stealth mechanics that was marketed as an HD version of the trilogy?
Honestly i prefer the black logo at the top, Keeping the consistency of the PS2
How have I never even noticed they changed
One of the more recent worst box design inconsistencies for me is how Brazil handles PS4/PS5 games with two disks. I don't know why they do this, if it is to cut costs or what, but when games have more than one disk they actually use the smaller Blu-ray boxes for them instead of the actual PlayStation boxes and it is infuriating. Be glad you don't have to live with this.
Also, I love the original branding of the PS3 with the Spider-Man font. I find it so iconic and super nostalgic of that era, the new one is just kinda bland. I love having the games in that old style for my collection.
I love it when Scott complains about boxes
4:20 You forgot Sony went through three different Longbox versions before adopting a standard cd jewel case format.
I just took a look at my like 35ish game ps3 collection and I only have one of the Move games and one of the blue ps4 style cases, most everything else is either the og case or the black ps3 logo on the spine. To be fair, if you want to use the Move its nice to see whether the game supports the thing from the spine.
Surprised you didn't mention Greatest Hits in this video, or something like Red Dead goty with the black case. I have one of each red and black cases.
Its my birthday thank you for depression with a smile and a laugh
I personally love the Spider-Man style box style
I love how Scott both complains about the PS4-style box art, yet only owns games with it because it has it.
As someone who doesn’t play PlayStation, I felt this on a personal level
Imagine buying accidentally buying a PS3 game, only to find out that it does not run on your PS4
"they're not fuckin' around this time..." I think their WILDLY CONFUSING and SCARY Adverts for the PS3 made that clear. LIKE HOLY COW... I mean, it's not as bad as when Sony announced a White PSPGo where a white lady held a black man (I was told it was another lady) in her clutches and the tag line, no joke, was; "WHITE IS COMING". I remember seeing that in Chicago.
Sounds cool
this is the kind of content i subbed for
Seriously. What must have happened to their marketing team to go from "market this console out of the gutter" to "market this console into the gutter".
Ermmm?
Knuckles chaotix music in the background nice
As a playstation collector, it hurts so bad. I love ps3 being clear cases so much... but the damn switching logo... i just wish the earlier ones didnt use a red bit at the top
I always hated how the old PS3 used the Spider-Man font face. I'm glad Sony decided to change it as time went on.
I never understood the empty space at the top of a translucent box. What was the point?
Shelf presence
Now you should do the same thing but with Xbox 360 & PlayStation Portable they had the same box art change through their time
It's the 1 year anniversary of my friends death and we had a little ceremony today and this was the first video I watched when I got home and the intro actually made me die laughing. Thank you scott!
I actually really love the Spider-Man font. It oozes early 00's energy