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

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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 boxart's all around the world, except in the US.

Guess they thought it wouldn't look good if it was in blue/purple only, so I suppose they decided to go without it. Still a bit surprising that they favored making it "look cooler" if it involved removing that iconic symbol.

Gonna see if I can find an article explaining this.

Technically the circle logo portion was still used by the US (modified). But it was as a background element on the SNES game boxes.