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It looks like PS3 cover banners are going blue

Looks fine but will definitely be painful for my OCD. Though that was already happening with the original PS3 cases and the current ones.
 
Guys, GUYS

Did no one else take notice that all the examples with blue banners are all PlayStation exclusives and only exclusives?

I have a feeling the black/grey banner will remain for cross-platform titles, and the blue will be for exclusives, and have that bit of "only on" text on the right.
 
While these covers look fine, it's a shame that it's becoming the norm because Sony's black with red border is easily the best one for most cover art.
 
Three different box label designs in a single generation, why? The blue labels screams brand confusion, just like the Wii and WiiU.

Ah well, let's hope that both MS and Sony can last this generation without altering their boxes.
 
It hearkens back to the PS1 era, where the PS1 had three distinct box designs. The big Sega CD style cases, the black plastic cases, and finally the CD cases. In retrospect, that was much more radical than merely changing the banner designs.
 
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I really don't like how big the PS4 strips are compared to PS3 or Vita.
 
If someone buys a PS3 game thinking that it'll work on PS4 just because the banner is blue, they deserve to lose their money because of how stupid they are.

It clearly says PS3.
 
This is definitely going to bother me when I put a blue-bannered limited edition Kingdom Hearts 2.5 copy next to my LE Kingdom Hearts 1.5 copy with the original banner...
 
SteelAlchemist said:
If someone buys a PS3 game thinking that it'll work on PS4 just because the banner is blue, they deserve to lose their money because of how stupid they are.

It clearly says PS3.
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Why can't my PS3 play Halo?

Also Dark Souls 2 better not have this. It'll ruin the perfect shrine I dedicated to it next to DS1 and DeS. Everything is perfect down to the color.
 
This is an outrage. Riot in the streets!

It does seem a little odd to change the branding on an old console game package to match the newer one...
 
BruiserBear said:
Your average Joe Gamer could easily be confused by this, and I wouldn't blame them at all.
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How? You can't look at the blue banner without seeing either PS4, PS3 or PS Vita. If I have a PS3 at home and buy game that clearly says PS4. How can that be confusing. Also in retail PS4, PS3 and Vita are usually separated.
 
Smart move. Now unexperienced PS3 owners will accidently buy PS4 games and unexperienced PS4 owners will accidently buy PS3 games, increasing sales on both platforms.

GENIUS
 
HYDE said:
Well shit, if they're still clear = expect little to no brand confusion...nothing to complain about except OCD.
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Exactly. This thread proves is there are a lot of people on GAF with OCD or some similar issue. It's not confusing in the slightest. There's a 3 on one case and a 4 on the other, they also are completely different color cases, one clear the other blue. It's a non-issue.
 
Son of Cervantes said:
It hearkens back to the PS1 era, where the PS1 had three distinct box designs. The big Sega CD style cases, the black plastic cases, and finally the CD cases. In retrospect, that was much more radical than merely changing the banner designs.
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That sorted itself relatively fast though and can be chalked up partially to being new to the market, and this only happened in the US and maybe Europe anyway I think. By the end of its first full year they were on to CD cases for the rest of the generation. The closest we've seen to this was probably the Genesis with the switch to the side banners then cardboard boxes, though I really do think this is one of the dumbest and most pointless attempts at it. Maybe the idea is that soft reboot again, but this time piggy backing off of the PS4's mindshare.
 
Rafterman said:
Exactly. This thread proves is there are a lot of people on GAF with OCD or some similar issue. It's not confusing in the slightest. There's a 3 on one case and a 4 on the other, they also are completely different color cases, one clear the other blue. It's a non-issue.
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You'd think so, but people still manage to confuse Wii with WiiU cases. Completely different color and case design.
 
KHlover said:
You'd think so, but people still manage to confuse Wii with WiiU cases. Completely different color and case design.
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If someone hadn't heard of the WiiU, they probably wouldn't know what WiiU meant. Someone with a PS3 ought to be able to deduce that PS4 is the next PlayStation even if they didn't know there was a PS4 yet.
 
SteelAlchemist said:
I just can't see how someone would get confused at this.
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That's probably because we're too heavily invested in games to be easily thrown off, same for any other field people follow closely. Someone whose shopping for, say, the MLB game for their kid (doubly so for a grandkid) might get thrown off by the PS3 and PS4 and identical looking casing though, at least if they don't have a specific version written down.
 
It's hardly confusing since the boxes for the games themselves will stay the same.
Someone should know something is up when they see a clear case and a blue case on the shelf. Anyway don't mind the change, the blue looks better than the 2 previous banners they tried on PS3. Only annoyance is that once again a PS3 collectors shelf is going to look a bit odd with all the changes they did to the spines.
 
Big mistake from Sony, the color differentiation was a good way to communicate the big difference between the two consoles.
 
Eusis said:
That's probably because we're too heavily invested in games to be easily thrown off, same for any other field people follow closely. Someone whose shopping for, say, the MLB game for their kid (doubly so for a grandkid) might get thrown off by the PS3 and PS4 and identical looking casing though, at least if they don't have a specific version written down.
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If theyre shopping for a game for their relative one would have to imagine they know at a minimum what console it is for. And if for some reason they still got confused you dont have to be heavily invested in games to ask a clerk "Excuse me which one is for console X?"
 
My collection's going to look awful, especially when I get my PS4 and start mixing up my last gen versions with the next gen versions.

Why do this in the first place? I get the need for the first change (because that Spider-Man font was awful and the template itself looked cheap and unappealing) but the new template was too good.
 
I don't mind. I only hate the original (PAL) red in my shelves, or rather on the spine. Always looked like the games were branded by Gamestop or some shit with a cheap sticker. So as long as it's not the Spiderman font, I'm cool - regardless of black or blue.
 
arent you guys kind of making a mountain out of a mole hill?
all they did was unify the color across all playstation stuff lol
are people really going to be confused?
one says ps3, one says ps4

not to mention that ps4 boxes look different anyway because the label goes all the way to the top, unlike the ps3 cases which are clear and have that strip of plastic on the top inch or so

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Uthred said:
If theyre shopping for a game for their relative one would have to imagine they know at a minimum what console it is for. And if for some reason they still got confused you dont have to be heavily invested in games to ask a clerk "Excuse me which one is for console X?"
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It's why I cited MLB, something that's only one on or the other like, say, Knack wouldn't be an issue, and something like Arkham Knight or Witcher 3 runs into the same issues any normal multiplatform series will run into. But you might get someone going PS4 just because it's a higher number even if the person they're shopping for only has a PS3, or PS3 supposedly works on PS4 (unlike prior generations... which probably would've made them a better target for this) only for that to be no good.

I dunno, I guess by the same token you simply can't underestimate stupidity among buyers, though at a minimum this is a bit more fuel thrown on the fire.
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What?
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Saying that about the covers is silly, but I do think Sony has had this goal to an extent. The real place it shows up is with the shop and how the PS3 practically switched to a beta version of the PS4 store about a year or so ago. Anyone who used that significantly then jumps to the PS4 will immediately be familiar with it, whereas there'd be the learning curve if we only had the new one on the new system (though performance wise that probably would've been better.)
 
Why would you change the cover design so late into the generation? The PS3 already has two different layouts, you don't need to make it even more messy.

I doubt it will confuse anyone, though. Going from the original design to the second design didn't confuse anyone, either.
 
wrowa said:
Why would you change the cover design so late into the generation? The PS3 already has two different layouts, you don't need to make it even more messy.

I doubt it will confuse anyone, though. Going from the original design to the second design didn't confuse anyone, either.
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There was also no PS4 to confuse it with...
 
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