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What is the best looking PlayStation (Launch Model)?

  • PlayStation 1

    Votes: 313 15.3%
  • PlayStation 2

    Votes: 700 34.2%
  • PlayStation 3

    Votes: 195 9.5%
  • PlayStation 4

    Votes: 699 34.1%
  • PlayStation 5

    Votes: 142 6.9%

  • Total voters
    2,049

jmsebastian

Member
Nov 14, 2019
1,097
Because I really don't like the vertical orientation of consoles at all (serious fear of the thing falling over), I base their aesthetics on how they look horizontally. Under those conditions, PS1 is so far ahead of the others it's not really a contest to me at all. PS4 would be a distant second. it's slanted design makes accessing the ports a huge pain and was not great. Had it been a hard-edged rectangular design, it may have taken the top spot.

The other PlayStation designs are all pretty hideous.
 

Chumunga64

Member
Jun 22, 2018
14,353
PS2 and PS4

PS3 looks like a grill and the PS5 looks so stupid that even official playstation pictures put that thing upside down
 

Neuroxia

Member
Mar 31, 2019
956
Out of the launch models: PS2 > PS4 > PS1 > PS3 > anything > PS5

If we count everything i find the PS3 slim the best looking Playstation.
 

TheBaldwin

Member
Feb 25, 2018
8,303
Damn i wasn;t expecting the PS3 that Low. I love da gloss.

for me

3 -> 1 - > 2 -> 5 -> 4.

4's just a bit unmemorable for me
 

Incubuster

Member
Oct 30, 2017
2,271
Pretty disappointed in the PS3 poll performance. I think the console looks sick as hell to this day. PS4 looks generic as hell honestly. The only thing it had going for it was how slim it was.
 

tbassett

Member
Jan 8, 2019
619
I always like the original ps3, but 2 and 4 were really nice. To each their own, but ps5 is possibly the worst console design I've ever seen. I refuse to buy one till they redesign
 

anaa

Unshakable Resolve
Member
Jun 30, 2019
1,556
Back in the day I remember being in awe of the sheer mass of the ps3 George foreman grill. looking back, I think the ps2 is definitely the winner. Wonder how different this poll would look if the revisions of each were included. I happen to like the psOne.
 
Oct 25, 2017
29,617
Playstation_3_box_controller.jpg
PS3 is one of the most beautiful pieces of hardware ever made,
Screw the haters
 

onpoint

Neon Deity Games
Verified
Oct 26, 2017
15,022
716
Was tempted to say PS3 because it REALLY grew on me, it looks so high end in person. But the PS4 was perfection.
 

klauskpm

▲ Legend ▲
Member
Oct 26, 2017
3,264
Brazil
For me it is 4, 5, 2, 1, 3. I really like the bold design of PS5, but PS4 was really great. Sadly the PS4 design ruined it.
 

housequake

Member
Aug 24, 2021
236
The PS2 looked amazing…



…As a Dreamcast stand.

I voted PS4, it looked really sleek, especially compared to the thiccboi PS3. The only issue was it felt a bit cheap when you started actually using it. Second place goes to the PS1, which still feels surprisingly premium. The PS2 gets docked a million points from me for having so many deep ridges which are always caked in crud and are a bugger to clean. But the real answer is Vita-chan because she's perfect.
 

Cokomon

One Winged Slayer
Member
Nov 11, 2017
3,774
PS4 and then the PS2. The PS1 is fine, but not a standout. PS3 and PS5 are both pretty ugly.
 

RomanticHeroX

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,909
Nothing will ever look more like the future than the PS2. Not just the clean design, but also so many ports and bays for who knows what. I was still hooking things to my computer with PS/2 and serial ports so I'd never even used a USB device.
 

PARAdoja

Member
Oct 27, 2017
575
They are all beautiful, except the PS5.

Hell, even the PS5 wouldn't be so bad if wasn't that fucking BIG
 

Ubik

Member
Nov 13, 2018
2,514
Canada
Seems like I got myself a hot take, because I think PS2 and it's slits are ugly as fuck and the PS5 modern art sculpture is pretty cool.
 

Allietraa

Prophet of Truth
Member
Mar 13, 2019
1,918
this just makes me realize sony never knew how to make nice looking hardware on the first go

PS3 was slick though in 2006. And the slim looks nice even by 2021 standards imo. But the launch model screams mid-00s media center
 

linkboy

Member
Oct 26, 2017
13,739
Reno
I've never been a huge fan of any of the launch models, most of the revisions to me all looked better. However, if I had to choose one, it would be the PS4.