Essentials (PlayStation)

The Platinum Range is a Sony PlayStation budget range in the PAL regions, including the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. A similar budget range in the U.S. market is known as the Greatest Hits label.

Platinum Range titles are recognisable by a platinum/silver coloured band on the game's casing and manual, whereas other (non-Platinum) games would have a black band.

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).

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.

Examples of Platinum titles

• Air Combat
• Crash Bandicoot
• Final Fantasy 7
• Rayman
• Tekken
• Worms

See Also

• Greatest Hits, the U.S. version of the Platinum label
• Player's Choice, a similar distinction for Nintendo titles

External links

• List of Playstation 2 platinum games