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The Most Beautiful Console Boxes/Packaging Design
- Thread starter ekim
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EeehhNope, 360 box is best
Looks all over the place to me.
OP's examples are all great. Very sleek, cool and minimal.
On the other hand the best box I own:
that looks worse than the PS5 box we got thoughI'm really glad I managing to snag the 20th Anniversary PS4 back when it dropped.
Packaging wise, the PS5 one this time around looks a bit basic and cheap. I prefer this mock up someone did way before we saw the console etc.
These two actually does something to me...
But the Greatest of All Time™ is definitely the PlayStation 2:
For me it's not only about the box design exterior - the unpack experience is almost more important.
XSX seems sleek and great, xbone was also OK..
My PS4 pro (RDR2 edition) was horrible tbh, brown mucus carboard and - yeah it kind of removed alot of the hype for me.. Definately not a premium experience.
That 500million edition is super classy tho, wish i had gotten one of those :)
XSX seems sleek and great, xbone was also OK..
My PS4 pro (RDR2 edition) was horrible tbh, brown mucus carboard and - yeah it kind of removed alot of the hype for me.. Definately not a premium experience.
That 500million edition is super classy tho, wish i had gotten one of those :)
This really is a great box for the GameboyGameboy
I think this my be my favorite console box. It looks great, imposing, powerful.
This. Some of the younger people here will just see a plain box, but to us, that box was everything lol. Console releases were so much different when we couldn't rely on online pre-orders and nearly everything we knew beforehand came from reading magazines.
Man, I will never understand the love for the PS2 box. It's just okay to me. The 20th Anniversary PS4 is fantastic though, and I like the Super Famicom box as well (and the (SFC Mini box replicating it was nice)
My personal favorite is always going to be the JP Saturn box, though:
My personal favorite is always going to be the JP Saturn box, though:
Here we go
Also beautifulThe best non-SE console packaging is the PS2:
Lol this is pretty 90sI unironically love the PLAY IT LOUD Gameboy packaging.
Just the dang thing itself and some 90's attitude.
Fantastic packing design, but the box design? Ehhhhh....Nope, 360 box is best
Good looking box but packing design is standard "let's cram this shit in there" affair.
The goat:
Shame it's all function over form. If you hold the box vertically the contents fall out immediately after you open it.
I'm at work currently so I have no pics, but one of my faves is easily the OG GameCube Indigo one.
So boxy. So cute.
So boxy. So cute.
I do (mildly) and this doesn't actually bother me at all. Probably because it's a perfect geometric grid instead of being irregular?
This box was incredible indeed. Very imaginative design.
Still have this up in my closet.
I couldn't tell you which is "most beautiful". There are too many amazing ones.
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There's just something about these two... Just perfect.
It's like the White album. It's sayng that you don't need an image of what you are buying because you already know what it is.
The original xbox did the same thing. I'm a bit disappointed that series X went for the extreme closeup. It would have been cool if they made a box that looks like an upsized version of the console itself as just a featureless black tower. That said, the unboxing of the series X is by a wide margin the best thing ever.The way it opens like a treasure box and the console inside is wrapped up like a birthday present. Perfection.
Haha I remember that ad and those hair cuts. What a blast from the pastThe ads are distilled 90's edgy HACK THE PLANET nostalgia
the DSi looks like its going "oh ,hi there! ,didnt notice you come in"
... is the 500 Million Limited Edition of the PS4 Pro
Shortly followed by the Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition
No lies detected. Dreamcast and N64 was pretty great too.
