Was reminded via twitter yesterday about just how nice red-black plastic electronics look.
I could almost start a whole thread just on that specific topic, but let's leave it open for people to post/discuss some top-tier hardware aesthetic design choices.
Starting from the start
https://twitter.com/suddendesu/status/1400665589467672581
https://twitter.com/sleeps_darkly/status/1400973885579743232
https://twitter.com/FlemishDog/status/1168701644944506880
https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/1320965900464353280
https://twitter.com/Incarta95/status/1248633319207600132
https://twitter.com/FlemishDog/status/1102486340040454145
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/976202743491706880
https://twitter.com/OutRunner_/status/800015266818248705
@tomjonjon#32841 Yeah, I've never held one myself, but it does have that hollow, budget look to it. I like the minimalism, both in terms of design and actual size. But yeah, at the end of the day so much of hardware excellence is how it actually feels in your hand–the heft, the materials. This is the reason I still like my original PSP-1000 (from a purely physical hardware perspective) over either my rev 1 or rev 2 vitas. It feels like such a solid little chunk of plastic/metal with no wasted space, whereas the vitas can almost feel like a semi-empty shell in comparison.
The Retro Red & Black, Silver / Gold boom box designs are all good. But anything newer than the year 2000 that is red and black just reminds me of the Gamestop disease, where anything marketed to gamers is Red, Black, Aggressive, and Phalic.
It's sleek with nice angles, and I love the little schematic type design for the labels and indicators. And I know it doesn't really make a whole lot of functional since, but I just love the pause button being right there on the console. I dunno why, it just feels neat to have activating a game function be somewhere other than on the controller.
i really like the look of the ps4 slim but have never owned one. really do not prefer the look of the ps5. the wing things look superfluous and like they were glued on to me
The first-gen DS isn‘t as comfortable to play as any of the later revisions and its screens aren’t particularly good by modern standards, but man it looks cool. Especially in red.
https://www.woodbrass.com/images/woodbrass/CASIO+CTS1+RD.JPG
