Platinum range

Not to be confused with Platinum Hits

The Platinum Range is a Sony PlayStation budget range in the PAL regions, including the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and continental Europe. A similar budget range in the North American market is known as the Greatest Hits label. Platinum Range titles are recognisable by a platinum/silver coloured band on the game's casing. This band runs along the top of the case's front. In old PlayStation 2 platinum games it is also common for the silver band to act as a border and to contain the game's original cover, which is shrunk to fill about 75% of the cover platinum cover. The PlayStation logo is repeated twice on the front case, once on the platinum border, and once on the original game's case. The new PlayStation 2 platinum games feature a new layout. They have a black border, and silver outlines around the shrunk original game cover. There is also a red orb located at the bottom of the original game cover with the words Platinum on it. The platinum band can also be seen on the manual. A platinum game disk will not feature any of the original game disc's design, and will replace it with a simple silver design, which, along with the copyright notices around the edges, will feature the game's name in the center surrounded by a black outline. To become a Platinum release it was required that a game have over 600,000 total worldwide sales after generally one year on the market (PAL region sales in particular; games that sell over 600,000 units in another region alone, such as Japan or the U.S., do not necessarily qualify for a Platinum title). For PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable releases, there is no specific target required to achieve Platinum status as indicated by SCEE Press Releases and the discrepancies between the Platinum status of specific titles and their chart performance. After reaching the required level of sales, Sony often dropped the prices of the original title to Platinum pricing levels (generally about half of the original retail price), as a way to clear inventory for retailers. The Platinum distinction has since been extended to the PlayStation 2 era and PSP era.

PlayStation titles

PlayStation 2 titles

PlayStation Portable titles

See also

• PSOne Books, the Japanese equivalent to the Platinum label
• Greatest Hits, the North American version of the Platinum label
• Player's Choice, a similar distinction for Nintendo titles
• Platinum Hits, another similar distinction for Microsoft titles
• Sega All Stars, the version for Sega's Dreamcast
• Ultimate Hits, used for Square Enix titles

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