I think Miyamoto mentioned that he liked the multicolored Super Famicom layout, but NOA went with the purple design instead. I'll always remember being a kid and seeing the Super Famicom in Nintendo Power before the US SNES design was shown and thinking that design with the multi-colored buttons was neat.
Which do you prefer, a hypothetical Super Nintendo that looked like this:

Versus
Note I think the purple SNES design was the only one with the concave (like NES) + convex butons (like N64) for the Y/X and B/A buttons.







