[Discussion] Has anyone come up with any insane trophy challenges? Here’s one I came up with a few weeks ago any thoughts on it?

The Platinum 500 Project: Completing 100 Platinum trophies per generation of PlayStation consoles (PS1 through PS5). Each generation = 100 Platinums to “complete” that generation before moving on to the next. This process would be repeated for each generation, resulting in a total of 500 unique Platinum trophies at the end.

Obviously, you wouldn’t be stuck on a single generation at a time—you would be able to bounce around between PlayStation generations.

However, there’s a catch: stacked games are excluded. For example, TimeSplitters 2 has a Platinum trophy for its PS2, PS4, and PS5 versions, but you can only count it once. That means the challenge must consist of 100 unique games per generation.

The problem? This challenge is practically impossible. • PS1: There are only 52 games with Platinums, including stacks, meaning roughly 25 unique games—far short of the 100 required (just 25% of the goal). • PS2: There are 84 games with Platinums, including stacks, with probably only 40 unique games. Again, not even half the required 100 Platinums for this generation.

And then there’s the PS3 and PS4 era. With remasters and ports like Uncharted 1-3, those are technically PS3 games, but if you complete the remasters, they count as PS4 games. The same logic applies to PS4, like The Last of Us Part II remaster, which would count as a PS5 game.

Another example is games released on two platforms simultaneously, like The Lego Movie on PS3 and PS4. If you earn the Platinum on the PS3 version, it counts as a PS3 game, completely locking you out of the PS4 version. The same goes for Uncharted 1-3 remasters and The Last of Us Part II remastered.

While the idea sounds good in theory, it falls apart in execution. It’s highly impractical to achieve, as it would take years to complete—and you’d have to rely on PlayStation to continue releasing classic titles with trophies from the PS1 and PS2 eras.