"Read-Only Memory, the publisher behind well-regarded volumes on Sega and other gaming history, is handling the project with spring 2026 delivery. The standard edition runs $125, while collectors willing to drop $325 get a deluxe package with a clamshell box and only 1,994 others for company. That's not a typo, by the way. The limited run of 1,994 copies is a nod to the year PlayStation launched in Japan, because of course it is."
"The images I've got-console prototypes that never left Sony's labs, early controller iterations that look like they were sketched on the back of a napkin, a VR headset prototype that predates the PSVR by a decade, and pages of logo experiments that show just how close we came to a PlayStation brand that looked entirely different-suggest this isn't just a victory lap."
"It's a visual autopsy of how one of gaming's most influential brands was built, piece by piece, mistake by mistake. And when you consider that the photography is handled by Benedict Redgrove, the guy who turned NASA's engineering labs into high art, you start to understand why the deluxe edition is priced like a mid-range graphics card. The question isn't whether it's worth it. The question is who this is actually for."
A 400-page photography book celebrates the PlayStation with a spring 2026 release from Read-Only Memory. The standard edition costs $125 and a deluxe clamshell edition is $325 with a limited run of 1,994 copies, a reference to the PlayStation's Japan launch year. The book features console prototypes, early controller iterations, a VR headset prototype predating PSVR by a decade, and logo experiments. Photography is by Benedict Redgrove. The collection serves as a visual autopsy of the brand's development, showing design iterations and mistakes. Pricing positions the deluxe edition as a collectors' item aimed at enthusiasts and design-focused buyers.
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