The Inconsistency of PlayStation 3 Boxes 

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

Sony really did everything they could to make the PS3 as confusing as possible

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

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.

Scott is a chocolate box of inconsistent consistency, wavering between too inconsistent (PS3 cases) and too consistent (Switch cases).

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.

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

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

I like how the persona 5 box went back after the MLB game

My favorite sub-genre of videos on RU-vid, men named Scott ranting about video game box designs

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

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!

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.

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 😂

This is why I like this Scitt guy, he says what we're all thinking!

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.

Yeah, sort of makes my game shelf in the ps3 section look a touch bit inconsistent.

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".

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.

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.

i was just today thinking about this issue and man scott uploads a video!!! love it!

it is genuyinely so glorious getting scott woz videos literally every few days. i could have only imagined this 2 years ago

I emptied out all my PS3 boxes and put the artwork, manuals and discs into sleeves. It feels more pleasing flicking through those than having all the mismatched spines on my shelf. For my PS1 collection I have been aiming for all black boxes, and the 3 Platinum games I do have really look out of place. I agree with your take on the "PS3" logo boxes being the nicest.

Ive actually customized most of my PS3 cases covering the red tab with the PS3 tab on the spine and put them in blue ps4 cases. Even combined old and newer versions of games in an OEM dual case. Used the old game as inside art. Like RE4 remake and the og on ps4 in one case. My OCD about this is different but ive got some cool unique collections now.

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 like how the original box design highlights the "PS3" in PlayStation 3, it's a neat touch

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

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.

PS3 Logo typography; reason? “Because they liked it.”, honestly. I think that makes the reason that much better.

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 ).

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

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

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 LOVE THAT THESE COMES OUT SO OFTEN ITS AWESOME

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 just wish they stuck with ps1 jewel cases for all generations

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

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.

we knew it was the spider man font but it was so futuristic back then

I could literally listen to this man describe paint drying.

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 definitely preferred the logo on the side instead of at the top but I like the non-red logo on the spine.

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 waited for my phone to charge from 0 so that I could watch this while I showered

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.

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

5:24 I always figured that was the reason why Kinect games for the 360 came in that violet purple case

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.

This channel really shows how much Scott actually loves games and it’s nice to see.

"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.

the aesthetics of physical media is my favorite topic thank you once again Scott The

I just read the description and WOW… I couldn’t tell this was recorded over a year ago!

The aesthetic implemented by the PS3 is called "Frutiger Aero". It's a common design theme thru-out the 2000s

I never thought I’d find another soul that actually played the Sly Collection’s mini games with the Move controllers 🙏

Knuckles chaotix music in the background nice

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.

Im gonna be completely honest, the Spiderman PS3 font always looked so cool to me. And i still love it.

Man PS3 was a weird time to be a Collector. Damn boarders changed so much Ridiculous 😂

this is the kind of content i subbed for

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 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

The sequel to the Xbox cases video that I never knew I needed

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.

First box art from the left side logo and spiderman 3 font ps3 most coolest ones

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".

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.

The original PS3 case is still what I picture in my head when I think of the term "Next Gen". It was the first new console release that I truly wanted at launch, exacerbated by the fact that my uncle and cousin both got launch models, so when I went to their house I'd play their PS3 and I just loved looking at the cases, oh so different from my PS2 and PSP cases at home, it gave me such an incredible amount of envy. Despite us being so far from those days now, I still remember the awe I felt, and get a nice little hit of dopamine everytime I browse my PS3 games. The 2nd case was always something I recognized as being a great logo, and I love it now on ps4 and ps5, but I'm always gonna think of PS3 cases as having the OG look, its just what I think of when I think ps3.

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 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?

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!

Never even seen that Blue variant of the Boxart before, Persona 5 on PS3 came out in 2017 and the label was Black

I love it when Scott complains about boxes

Its my birthday thank you for depression with a smile and a laugh

You can also do the Sly minigames with a regular controller anyway. Whether you'd want to or not… That depends on how much you care about Trophies.

I've been waiting for this one because I hated the blue header PS3 boxart for the longest time

As someone who doesn’t play PlayStation, I felt this on a personal level

the new box header was introduced with the box art design, yes

The PSP case spine had something similar but not quite as drastic as the PS3's. The text got smaller with the removal of the PS logo, but it's still inconsistent sitting on my shelf. 😑

I just discovered that a few months ago that the original ps3 font stole it from the spiderman trilogy movies, just randomly one day while taking a closer look at it, but this is the first time i heard anyone mention it lol

Imagine buying accidentally buying a PS3 game, only to find out that it does not run on your PS4

Paradisse city is goated

There's also the red Greatest Hits boxes as well :)

The late release PS3 games also lack the region symbol at the bottom of the spine that literally every other NTSC PS3 game has.

I refuse to collect the blue ones and I printed out "PS3 tabs", little pieces of paper to fold and slide in to cover the old design. The Xbox One/Series X inconsistency is one of the reasons I refuse to collect too much for that system as well. I need my consistency!! 😂

Now you should do the same thing but with Xbox 360 & PlayStation Portable they had the same box art change through their time

The PS3 was prime middle school days for me. They really got me with all of the buzzwords all over the cases/general advertisements. PS Move compatible, 3D compatibility, Simulview compatible, cross buy, Trophy Support etc. I bought a PS3 over 360 for these features yet only ever tried most of them for like 5 minutes before deciding the gimmicks weren’t fun…I’m still addicted to trophies tho

9:20 Is that some sort of post credit scene?

what's funny is that scotts ideas for videos it's just a random search at reddits charts

I don't think we ever had those blue banner PS3 (MLB) here in the UK, i really like it.

Almost certain blue cases would only have been an NTSC thing And to the early PS3 case’s credit, it retained the coloured PlayStation icon, though small

I personally love the Spider-Man style box style

Surprised you didn't mention the platinum collection with its yellow headers

Dude ive always thought it was the spiderman font since launch and its always confused the hell outta me

I have a lot of nostalgia for the old PS3 box design with the Spider-Man font

In Brazil we had a greatest hits version that the cover were ALL golden

"And then you have Xbox..." Oh my gosh! That Xbox art at the end there makes PS3 look modest