Sony Shakes Things Up, Adds Big White Rectangle To PS5 Boxes – Kotaku Australia

After months of rumours, pleading, and undercover operatives gone missing, Sonys finally revealed the final look of PlayStation 5 retail game cases. Please contain your excitement. Also, I hope you like white rectangles.
The new case design was shown off in a small post on the Official PlayStation Blog. The new case design is very similar to the old PS4 design. However, the most noticeable change is the switch from a blue banner to a white banner at the top. And now theres also a 5 up there instead of a 4.
Black and white seems to be the colour scheme Sonys chosen for the PlayStation brand and the PS5 moving forward. The PlayStation Studios logo, which recently changed, uses this colour scheme too. And the curvy PS5 console itself is mostly black and white.
Personally, Im not a huge fan of a giant white bar at the top of the box. It looks unfinished, like something I would make in Photoshop as a placeholder. But then again, who cares? I havent bought a physical game in nearly two years. Based on stats floating around on the web, Im not alone. Most folks it seems are buying games digitally now. Sony is even selling a PS5 model without a disc drive. So its very possible that this box design reveal is the last of its kind as gaming moves toward a fully digital future.
Yesterday, in an 85-minute event called The Future of Gaming, Sony finally revealed the PlayStation 5. Between the presenters who may not have been human, we got a thorough look at plenty of video games (and some technical stuff, too). The info feed surrounding the PS5 has been a slow…
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