PlayStation and PlayStation 2 platinum game discs do not feature any of the original game disc design instead, it is replaced with a simple silver design – which, along with the copyright notices around the edges, features the game's name in the centre surrounded by a black outline. The PlayStation 3 Platinum range box art replaces the black background of the PlayStation 3 logo on the left with a yellow background, and has the original box art shrunk slightly, with a grey border, and a yellow rectangle on top of it, with Platinum The Best of PlayStation 3 written on it. The platinum band can also be seen on the manual.

There is also a red orb located at the bottom of the original game cover with the words Platinum The Best of PlayStation 2 and Platinum The Best of PSP (PlayStation Portable) for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable games respectively. (with the original game's case dropping the PlayStation logo after 2002.) In 2005, a new featured layout was introduced these have a black border, and silver outlines around the shrunken original game cover.

The early platinum games that were released prior to 2003 had the PlayStation logo repeated twice on the front case, once on the platinum border, and once on the original game's case. The PlayStation 2 design of the platinum games had a silver band to act as a border and to contain the game's original cover, which is shrunk to fill about 75% of the platinum cover. The PlayStation design used the same logo that was introduced in early 1997 for all PAL region game cases, the differences being the colouring and that it indicates itself as Platinum. Platinum Range titles were recognisable by a platinum/silver coloured band on the game's casing, both the front and the spine. Similar budget ranges from Sony include the Greatest Hits and The Best labels for the North American and Japanese markets, respectively. It was launched in January 1997 as the Platinum range but was later renamed for PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4.

Official Platinum and Essentials banners used on PlayStation game covers.Įssentials is the Sony PlayStation budget range in the PAL region, which covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Australia and South Asia.

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