News doing the rounds this morning of Nintendo having dropped its classic red logo are "two years late" according to Nintendo.
Nintendo has been using the grey logo following the launch of Wii - in line with the console's new image - as you may have noticed if you read the Official Nintendo Magazine, which has been using the grey logo for around 18 issues.
News broke this morning that the red logo had been dropped following a request from NOE that publications only use the grey logo.
Nintendo UK has cleared thing up though, saying the red logo was simply set aside, and that the grey logo is being used "for the time being". Maybe nobody noticed?
"We are using grey but the racetrack logo can be represented in a number of different colours. You'll often see it in black, white, silver or grey," it said.
You may have noticed that the DS packaging features a black logo, the Wii boxes have the grey one. "This has been the case on both hardware formats since their releases," added Nintendo.
So we might see the red logo make a return when the circumstances are right. For now though, it's the clean, grey, iPod look for Nintendo.
I didn't realise the colour formed part of the logo to be honest - I've seen the Ninty logo in all sorts of colours, and it still remained Nintendo. *shrug*
I didn't realise the colour formed part of the logo to be honest - I've seen the Ninty logo in all sorts of colours, and it still remained Nintendo. *shrug*
I didn't realise the colour mattered either! I didn't notice the change, but then tbh I didn't really look for it.. or care too much!
I'm going to ditch this website, half of the stories published are incorrect. If this is news then you'll be glad to hear that I took a s**t earlier this morning...
I'm going to ditch this website, half of the stories published are incorrect. If this is news then you'll be glad to hear that I took a s**t earlier this morning...
Cheerio then. It's not news like 'A plane just crashed into the World Trade Centre', but it's vaguely to do with gaming, and we've all learnt that the Nintendo logo is usually red, but is grey for this generation, when most of us had no idea that the colour mattered. Thought provoking, eh?
I noticed, I just didn't care. Red or grey, what difference does it make?
I think it's quite funny that they've ditched the coloured logo (no doubt in favour of a seriouscat image, but the games are colourful. Yet Sony and MS have green and blue on their boxes but it's the games themselves that are a bit grey. See what they did there?
this is just a small news story and already the pessimists are finding a way to whine about nintendo sucking. Mario and zelda teams are already working. Pikmin is being made. So is sonic unleashed and previews say that it will probably be up there with the classic sonic games. We have already had a proper mario and zelda game already along with mario kart, metroid prime, smash bros, etc. AND MANY MORE. Sorry I wrote so much, but I'm just trying to say, THEY HAVENT ABANDONED THE HARDCORE MARKET. phew
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