PlayStation Anniversary Book's Curious Concepts Inc. Trapezoid PS2 and a Most

It's no 'Giant X' but still...

Hardware goes through endless iterations before developers settle on a final design. Sometimes, discovering unused concept images can leave you disappointed by what could've been, but more often than not, it leaves you relieved that cooler design heads eventually prevailed.

ROM's PlayStation: The First 30 Years tome is packed to the brim with these concept images, offering a cavalcade of ideas for PlayStation consoles, controllers, and other accessories that never came to pass. And it's fascinating to consider how much a brand can live or die on its design decisions, and while PlayStation is certainly one of the "cleanest" (aesthetically) of the gaming brands, it's still guilty of a few foibles itself. You can't sell me on the PS5's "winged" design, dizzying height, and clumsy horizontal stand.

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