Platinum range

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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. This band can either run along the top of the case's front. In 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 inside this. The playstation logo is repeated twice on the front case, once on the platinum border, and once on the original game's case. 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).

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.