Early PlayStation Logo Designs
By now, most people have heard the history of how the Sony PlayStation came to be. It was originally supposed to be a CD-ROM add-on for Nintendo’s SNES, but Nintendo dropped Sony to develop the hardware with another company. Shaking its fist and vowing revenge, Sony continued working on the project on its own. Fast-forward 15 years, and the PlayStation brand is now almost as synonymous with video games as Nintendo once was.
Various images of prototypes of the Nintendo PlayStation have surfaced; the most notable are the ones with game-rave.com watermarks. But I recently came across a diagram of rare, early versions of the PlayStation logo.
You can see that through all iterations of the logo, the designers wanted to preserve the “PS” and include the three subtractive primary colors. It wasn’t until the final design that we see the inclusion of green (an additive primary color). In samples like first in the top row and the last in the second row, they wanted to integrate the ellipses found in the SNES/Super Famicom logo.
Ah, the 1990s… Good times.
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