Today is the Super Nintendo's 25th birthday (in N. America).

[Cloudman]

Hiku said:

Cloudman said:

I think it was made to look cooler? I think I recall hearing NoA wasn't found of the colorful presentation of the SF. They thought it looked too child-like.

They must have felt strongly about it, because in the process they had to sacrifice part of the SNES logo:

The four colors, representing the colors on the buttons. It was similar to Playstation's iconic X, O, Triangle and Square logo. It was on all the consoles, controllers and game boxarts all around the world, except in the US.

Guess it wouldn't look good if it was in blue/purple only, so I guess they decided to go without it.

That did make me kinda sad. I did like that logo. The colored buttons are pretty great too.