levyjl1988
Banned
Does anyone else notice the trend of lack of effort for physical spine art?
Compare Gamecube spine art.
Compared to current Switch spine art. It's dull, no game pops up.
The same with Xbox 360, the logos just pop.
Xbox One spine art is, boring... however, at least the logo gives the personality behind a bland background.
PS2 spine art splashed with personality...
PS5 is surprisingly sustaining it.
I hypothesize that with the increasing sales of digital games, Nintendo and Microsoft purposely make their box art the least attractive.
They want to encourage digital sales. Think about it as it's cutting costs.
First, they reduced the plastic in cases. Xbox 360 cases for example felt it had a sense of weight, the manuals were thick.
Then they started to cut the plastic making it more flimsy. Instruction manuals were reduced to just pages or none at all.
Nintendo 3DS and Wii U used annoying eco cases that simply did not protect the box art and could be pierced.
Now they are making it less appealing because eventually, we are moving towards that digital future.
Surprisingly Sony is still making their game art pop. Long ago when I used to work in retail my electronics store would order more PS games than Xbox.
People prefer buying physical Sony games and still rely on that physical release. No way anyone wants to wait and install full large games over the internet when they can download it locally from the disc.
I'm also guessing with Switch games the lack of effort on game cases is because they get recycled too often as most people keep carts loose anyways.
Anyway, what are your thoughts?
Compare Gamecube spine art.
Compared to current Switch spine art. It's dull, no game pops up.
The same with Xbox 360, the logos just pop.
Xbox One spine art is, boring... however, at least the logo gives the personality behind a bland background.
PS2 spine art splashed with personality...
PS5 is surprisingly sustaining it.
I hypothesize that with the increasing sales of digital games, Nintendo and Microsoft purposely make their box art the least attractive.
They want to encourage digital sales. Think about it as it's cutting costs.
First, they reduced the plastic in cases. Xbox 360 cases for example felt it had a sense of weight, the manuals were thick.
Then they started to cut the plastic making it more flimsy. Instruction manuals were reduced to just pages or none at all.
Nintendo 3DS and Wii U used annoying eco cases that simply did not protect the box art and could be pierced.
Now they are making it less appealing because eventually, we are moving towards that digital future.
Surprisingly Sony is still making their game art pop. Long ago when I used to work in retail my electronics store would order more PS games than Xbox.
People prefer buying physical Sony games and still rely on that physical release. No way anyone wants to wait and install full large games over the internet when they can download it locally from the disc.
I'm also guessing with Switch games the lack of effort on game cases is because they get recycled too often as most people keep carts loose anyways.
Anyway, what are your thoughts?