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Nintendo Feels All Grown Up, Changes Logo [Nintendo]
Nintendo Feels All Grown Up, Changes Logo [Nintendo]
Well, here's about the oddest press release I've seen in a long time. It's from Nintendo Europe. Informing me that, as of now, Nintendo Europe have a new logo. The press release reads: Liebe Medienpartner, die Nintendo-Welt, die seit einigen Jahren mit Wii, Nintendo DS und einer neuen ...
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Nintendo changing their long-time red logo to grey?
GoNintendo — ... Big deal? Do you guys care about a logo change? Thanks to Monodi for the heads up! Link This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 at 11:42 pm and is filed under ...

Nintendo officially updates logo
Infendo - Nintendo blog — ... Nintendo of Europe has just spread a press release concerning a “big” change in their logo. Kotaku has the goods… Dear Media Partner, For several years, a new generation of Wii and Nintendo DS games have adorned themselves with a new logo, in discrete grey. In various publications the former logo, with red lettering, can still be seen. In the event that you have not already done so, we would like to sincerely ask you to now only use the current, gray Nintendo logo. Yours sincerely, Your friendly Nintendo PR team. Not huge news, but it is a little sad to see big red leave ...

‘New’ Gray Nintendo Logo Is For U.S. Too
MTV Multiplayer — ... this morning is that Nintendo of Europe has ditched the traditional red Nintendo logo for a grey one — and that the company did this years ago. Maybe this is just in Europe? And, by the way, how did Europe’s reporters miss this? Don’t feel so bad, my European friends. I was blindsided by this same news just a couple of a weeks ago. Apparently this secret logo revolution occurred in the U.S. years ago as well. I found this out a couple of weeks ago while chatting with Nintendo of America executive vice president of sales and marketing Cammie Dunaway before starting our ...

Nintendo proud to go grey
Wii Wii —   The internet is never going to let cold, hard facts get in the way of a good furore, so a Kotaku report (discussed on Casualgaming.biz) that Nintendo of Europe issued a press release politely asking “publications” not to use the old red logo, but the ‘new’, grey one is naturally causing some tears and tantrums before bedtime. Of course, anyone who’s purchased a copy of the Official Nintendo Magazine in the last couple of years (or, indeed, any Nintendo-published game, though it’s marginally less obvious there) ...

Nintendo loses a little color
Joystiq [Nintendo] — Filed under: NewsIn one of its more mystifying announcements this year, Nintendo Europe sent out a press release saying it was dumping the famous red Nintendo logo, and replacing it with a ... serious, business-like gray version. Ugh. The press release, translated from German to English by Kotaku, didn't give a specific reason for the switch, merely requesting that, "In the event that you have not already done so, we would like to sincerely ask you to now only use the current, grey Nintendo logo." CasualGaming.biz contacted ...

Nintendo tries to erase itself, tweaks logo color
That VideoGame Blog — ... For better for worse, Nintendo has now officially changed their logo color from the rufous red of the past to the gunmetal grey of the future. The company sent out a press release to various media outlets requesting that they now use the more “discrete” grey color used on recent Nintendo products. ...

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Discrete Grey is the New RedGoNintendo
Can a simple color change completely alter the way a company is viewed? It looks like Nintendo believes so. I am honestly very surprised by the fan reaction to Nintendo changing their logo color from red to grey. Some people view it as yet another reason to ...