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PlayStation 5 Logo refers to jokes about the unveiled emblem for Sony's upcoming PlayStation 5 gaming and home entertainment console, which is virtually identical to the previous two Playstation logos.

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On January 6th, 2020, Sony talked about their sales for the PlayStation VR headset and unveiled the logo for their upcoming PlayStation 5 console at the CES Conference in Las Vegas (shown below).^[1] The logo is virtually identical to the logos for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, with the only difference being the number in the logo.

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After the reveal, fans poked fun at the reveal, joking about how lazy it appeared that the company had simply changed the number in the old logo. Twitter user @bagel_chris posted a video making fun of the change, gaining over 49,000 retweets and 132,000 likes (shown below, top). Twitter user @yakpuu_ posted a video joking that the start-up animation would have the logo reading "PIS5," gaining over 430 retweets and 1,200 likes (shown below, bottom).

Twitter user @MikeDrucker^[2] joked that the simple logo probably "took hours" to approve, gaining over 1,000 retweets and 6,900 likes (shown below, left). User @dangrabham^[3] also joked that the new logo "must've taken ages," gaining over 560 retweets and 3,100 likes (shown below, right). Jokes about the logo were covered by Complex.^[4]

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