PS2: a designer reveals prototypes of amazing boxes refused by Sony

It is not to say that the Japanese manufacturer has attempted Pusher here and there the Boundaries of the design of his products, as remembered the players who had been able to discover EL Famoso Manette "Boomerang" of the Playstation 3, on time where the vibrations were a technology of the past.

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What we know less is that the Playstation Games were also able to offer an unprecedented visual coquetry , as our colleagues from Kotaku have recently: at the end of the 1990s the American branch From Sony has indeed approached the designer Hock Wah Yeo , who loves to have fun with the round shapes, as the Instagram account suggests. The person has already made a reputation by signing at the end of the 1980s rather unconventional cases for the publishers passing him order, and Sony then in full state of grace hoped to offer an original and singular look to the future games of the PS2.

Neither one nor two, the YEO guy goes to work, and you will find his amazing concept in the Image of Images: the concept presented at the time takes the form of a rectangle surmounted by a record designed to accommodate the DVD in question, and certainly stands out from the competition. The concept seems crazy? Remember advertisements for the launch of the console in 2000 ...

The jacket would have thus been able to start conventionally before expanding towards a sphere, and we imagine that the most inspired artists would have certainly been able to give it to heart. After all, good ideas are not lacking. But Sony Japan has finally come to put an end to the hopes of his American division, preferring to opt for a DVD box format all that is more classic, easy to store at home as in the shelves of the shops , especially when you know how much the console's DVD player has participated in its intestable success. No but.

You now know what you escaped. So happy ?

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