Only slightly less hair-splitting than blasting Nintendo's choice to name their console "Wii" is the unusually critiqued decision by Sony to reuse the familiar "Spider-man font" for the PLAYSTATION 3 logo. Nitpicky gamers who actually care about this sort of thing will be glad to know where they can direct their venom (or their praise).

According to an interview with Sony designer Teiyu Goto in an upcoming Official PlayStation Magazine, Ken "Father of the PlayStation" Kutaragi "insisted" that the typeface be used to represent the console. Further, Goto contends that the Spider-logo may have been "the motivating force behind the shape of PS3."

I've always been a fan of the design. It's simple, beautiful, classic. It's, like, "How much more black could this be?" And the answer is, "None. None more black." Michael McWhertor

Kutaragi "insisted" on Spider-Man font for PS3 [CVG]

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