First pics of retail PS3 game cases
IGN posted several photos of PlayStation 3 game cases today on their website. While as thick as both PS2 and PSP disc containers, new PS3 cases are actually shorter than the aforementioned by a good inch. But what's up with the cloudy plastic box top? Its molded void takes away from the cover design.
[Thanks, SickNic]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
SecondChance @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:00PM
Better than bright blue, I suppose. But then again, never buying a PS3 game so I dont really matter.
Dallas @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:02PM
The Friends trivia game actually exists?!
I thought it was a joke!
BklynKid @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:03PM
OMG is that 4-dimensional??
Zo K. @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:05PM
Holy Jesus! There was a FRIENDS game!? o_O;;
There is no God. -_-;
kevinski @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:06PM
It should've been a partially translucent black box top. This looks like it'd be more suited to a Windows Vista product box.
lincoln @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:08PM
eeewww
it looks like id buy it at a flea market
kodec @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:09PM
Yeah, that clear top looks much, much better than the blue cases of Blu-Ray movies. Now, if only anyone was going to have a PS3 to play games on!
Todd @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:10PM
WTF? A game based on Friends? Sony has sold out to the devil.
reguy @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:12PM
@ Zoe K
I was thinking the same thing.
Help me Jebus!
Dracula Jones @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:14PM
You know what it looks like? The case for a cheap DVD of a public domain movie that no one's going to buy in the $1 bin in the frozen food aisle at the grocery store.
There's just too much going on. Clashing shapes and colors. Text oriented in too many different ways. It's all too busy!
teehee @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:14PM
wow, those are going to fit in my existing DVD rack perfectly!......well, a little duct tape won't hurt.
Huey2k2 @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:16PM
spider-man, spider-man, does whatever a spider can.
jaybleezy @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:17PM
They look like bootleg movie cases
Thryon @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:19PM
I can of find it stange that Sony keeps hyping Blue-Ray, but then changes the case fron the standard Blue-Ray case. Why is Sony trying to distance themselves to much of Blue-Ray?
While on the topic, I picked up an HD-DVD copy of Batman Begins today....why is the HD-DVD case exactly the same as the Blue-Ray case, with the difference being only the logo and color? Am I the only one that finds it disturbing that they can agree on a case standard, but not a format standard.
Jose @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:20PM
I still don't like that Spiderman font, I don't know where I heard it first or who pointed it out but ever since then it's bothered me. Why didn't they just use comic sans, or to be really hardcore gangsta, old english.
Embassy @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:20PM
is that for retail purchase or for blockbuster..????
ughhh..
nick @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:21PM
I actually prefer the transluscent blue cases to the clear plastic. This one seems unfinished, as if there should have been more.
You can see through it, but why?
Has anyone noticed a new trend when it comes to next generation (or perhaps only 360) games? When I visit Best Buy, then never display the actual cases, instead they have generic cases with b/w print outs from the box art. Only after you buy the game, do you ever get to see or touch the actual case. They don't do this with Xbox, PS2, GC, DS although they're sitting next to the 360 games. It looks pretty crappy. I've seen GameStop/EB do this too, but they use color print reproductions of the box art.
BklynKid @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:23PM
You know, all kidding and joking around aside. I have not yet heard a reason why they blatantly ripped off the Spiderman font. Seriously, why?
Eric Von Shpeel @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:24PM
I love that its small, but i dont get the little segregated top.. it looks like it should have something inside, or at least be coloured so you can see the blue ray and ps3 logos more easily. Either way Its gunna spend most of the time out of view on my shelf so i dont really care
itsasecret @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:27PM
i cant wait guys!
I get to play madden a 3 month old football game on the ps3! OH YES ! SCORE!
Thryon @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:27PM
"I can of find it stange that Sony keeps hyping Blue-Ray, but then changes the case fron the standard Blue-Ray case. Why is Sony trying to distance themselves to much of Blue-Ray? "
Hard to make an intelligent statement, when my wording sounds like it was made by a monkey with a keyboard. That is what I get to posting messages while at work, hidden behind an Excel spreadsheet.
What I ment to say was:
I find it kind of strange that Sony would not go with the look and color of the now familiar Blue-Ray cases for the PS3 games. They have been hyping all along the values of games on Blue-Ray discs. It is almost as if they are trying to distance the games from the Blue-Ray format.
Maybe is that they do not want to confuse consumer in thinking that the games are actually movies, or the movies are games.
Anyway...back to my Excel spreadsheet.
Alan Wii @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:27PM
Noooooooo Poor FF13 and MGS4. The PS3 cases are horrific. I've always hated the spider-man font but never imagined the cases to be this bad. I'm not bothered by the shape or the clear case, it's just like what #10 Dracula says, it's too messed up. The black PS3 letters on the red background on the side is ugly. I hope the UK boxes are better.
Me? @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:31PM
Sony owns the spider man movies and created that font so they can use it(does look a bit underwhelming though)
MusashiX2 @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:32PM
i actually really like the spine design (i have grown accustomed to the spidey font, as everyone will eventually...) but yeah that extra plastic on the top is kinda silly lookin. they should have made it rounded off like the psp cases. also, i think a shiny translucent black would have been better than clear. it would match the ps3's ridiculous shininess. i also dig the red ps3 logo on the spine.
Dracula Jones @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:33PM
"19. I love that its small, but i dont get the little segregated top.. it looks like it should have something inside"
Tiny Sea Monkey aquarium!! Sony, let's see if we can get this done, k? On my desk by Monday.
Delive @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:34PM
Wow. Seeing that my cases are stored away in a entertainment center and not visable unless I get them out, I could care less if they shipped the games in cereal boxed.
Tom @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:39PM
While its nice its smaller (dvd cases always seem like such a waste of space) it looks horrid. I mean to be honest it doesn't make any difference at all. Its the case im not going to sit their looking at it, I will play the game.
Its just the fact that the ps2 case, black border, blacker box, white square for ps logo. Ok 2 different colours.
Psp box white square for ps logo, black bar, white box. Yea you know thats ok.
PS3 Big white border at top, black border at the side, red square for Ps3 logo, silver square for ps logo. Erm who designed it? Theres too much going on, The red and silver square next to each other is just weird. They should both be the same colour. Also it appears Playstation 3 is written on the top white bar but also at the side of the front and then the side. Does it really need to be on the front twice?
Again it doesn't really matter, its a box who cares? However I would like to know the reasons behind the design from the person who made this O.o
JJ @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:40PM
This just goes to show...people will complain about ANYTHING given a chance... just like the UI, its just a box people... i dont see people complaining about the gaudy green xbox/360 boxes, why would any "normal" person complain about this?
stevo @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:43PM
would everybody stop gettin off subject. the subject is the game cases, not the friends video game. i frankly could care less if there was a friends video game. and if anyone says that sony has sold out to the devil then just remember that the xbox 360 wasnt that great of a system when it came out (extremely loud, overheating, slow loads, crappy game line-up, etc.). just remember, when the sega came out it would have cost in today dollars about $800, so dont give me that crap about hating the case or games, the system (i believe any ways) is an extremely good buy. end of story
D @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:44PM
I don't think Sony hires people with eyes
iamblinkin @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:45PM
Ew. The top of the spine where it says "PS3" is very lame looking. Ugh. I won't even start on the clear tops...
Brian @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:45PM
Lol Thryon, your case-standard comment made me rofl.
Dux @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:52PM
It lookes like a PSP case...
Taylor Alexander @ Nov 3rd 2006 6:55PM
No guys, OMG! You don't get it! It's a secret hint that the PS3 Will have AERO! Just like vista! OMG! I found out the secrettt!
And yeah, i love the thing about the HD-DVD boxes being the same. The entire optical disk and player industry has split in two to make two different formats, but the box manufacturers are like F' that, we're not making 2 different boxes just 'cause you guys can't decide on one f*ing format.
-Taylor
epluribus @ Nov 3rd 2006 7:03PM
Just couldn't resist, could ya Blake? The cloudy plastic takes away from the cover design? Christ, what is this pathological need you have to slip in a dig, ANY dig, no matter how absurd or trivial.
Get a f@kkin life, loozer.
Richard @ Nov 3rd 2006 7:03PM
everything looks good except that little PS3 logo on the spine..
Psaakyrn @ Nov 3rd 2006 7:07PM
What I hate, is the PS3 logo. Why are they emphasizing the "3" instead of the "PS"? And why black on red, are they trying to show that the PS3 is dark/violent? I hope this really isn't the final design.
Spirit @ Nov 3rd 2006 7:11PM
I'm not an ant-PS3 guy, I actually support it... but the Spider-Man font looks so stupid. That was definitely a stupid decision...
Anyway.. whats great about this post is friends the video game. They have released some stupid video games out there - but I don't know what tops this one. No, not even Barbie Horse Adventure.
lets just put the gun down and we go get me those fries @ Nov 3rd 2006 7:48PM
arent half of u up there supposed to be playing your xbox, get the fuck outta here with those stupid ass complaints.
Markster @ Nov 3rd 2006 7:50PM
And so returns the the age of non-standard case sizes.
CD/DVD cases were just too convienient, it seems.
Maximus @ Nov 3rd 2006 7:51PM
Damn, Im not a fan of the case, but I can't wait for the games, bring em' on!
*fuck Nintendo*
Jeff @ Nov 3rd 2006 7:55PM
Man, some of you whiners apparently never saw the Japanese GameCube game cases. Those were/are freakin' cool. Oooooh, but they're totally "non-standard", therefore an affront to all that is good and holy. Oh well.
natethenate @ Nov 3rd 2006 7:56PM
Why do you hate Sony so much? Was it really necessary to use this picture as an opportunity to highlight two of the worst games for the PS2 and PSP consoles? Wouldn't PS3 Madden look much better next to a shiny, new Final Fantasy XII or Okami and GTA Vice City Stories, LocoRoco, or SOCOM Fireteam Bravo 2?
Angmar @ Nov 3rd 2006 7:57PM
If the PS3 is supposed to be region free, why does it look like there are region codes at the bottom of the spine?
chimchim @ Nov 3rd 2006 8:36PM
I'm not really a fan of the design but frankly I'm fine with the box as long as I can distingish it from xbox 360 and wii games easily. It was always a bit annoying trying to tell the difference between ps2 games and gamecube games when digging through the clearance bins while the xbox green stood out perfectly (despite, in my opinion, being one of the worst box colors ever).
Thryon @ Nov 3rd 2006 9:04PM
@ natethenate
The image is actually from IGN and not Joystiq. I suggest you ask IGN why they have Sony so much.
http://au.media.ps3.ign.com/articles/743/743937/img_4043665.html
Figboy @ Nov 3rd 2006 9:26PM
wow. you people are complaining...about a *CASE*
what is wrong with you guys??
it's a fricking video game case!! i mean, do you guys pop the case into your PS2 or X Box, or Gamecube and play them? no. you play the games. i could give a rats ass how the case looks. all that matters to me is if the game is fun and enjoyable.
man, it's true that there are people that will bitch about *EVERYTHING*. sheesh.
Pince @ Nov 3rd 2006 9:26PM
in the long run, the case design likely won't matter a whole ton, as it will be recognized by consumers as a ps3 case at some point, but that doesn't change the fact that it is really ugly. Cloudy plastic = bad. I line up most of my game cases, even retarded xbox cases that have bright green plastic, but I would not take shelf space away from any of the games I have now for that thing. It is purely aesthetic but still, yuck.
Oh and the red PS3 logo on the side, yuck to that, and the spiderman font, and Madden while we are at it.
Makaveli @ Nov 3rd 2006 9:29PM
Either way you look at it, sony is still gonna charge a assload for the game and controlers and anything else ps3 related. If you want to spend $500-600 on a system they say will blow everything else away then do it and stop bitching. I just cant justifi paying that much even if it is hi-def and has a blue ray. i dont have a flat screen tv and i will never spend $40 on a blue-ray movie so i have on need for the ps3. It will just have re-hashed crappy me-too game just like the fucking ps2 had. what we need is new concepts and new game ideals. i mean do we really need another tony hawk or gta or gta clones? any game can have great graphics, but without good game play and a good story line with great control it aint shit. so stop bitching about what the fucking game cases look like, and start bitching about all the lameass, tired, seen it before, crappy ass, played it before, useless, re-hashed, garbage that these game makers are putting out to make a quick buck.
lordroba @ Nov 3rd 2006 9:32PM
The reason (i think) they're shorter is because you no longer need a place for an optional memory card holder, thus reducing the case by an inch. It might not seem like much, but I think they save a lot of money by shaving off all that unneeded plastic.
and @ BklynKid
"You know, all kidding and joking around aside. I have not yet heard a reason why they blatantly ripped off the Spiderman font. Seriously, why?"
Because they felt like it. They own the rights to it, so they can do whatever they want.