The above image is the Nintendo logo for the modern age

The above image was the original branding that seems to have made a comeback!

It would appear that the industry veteran is moving back towards to "classic" branding, though. Nintendo of America's Twitter profile now uses the famous white-on-red version of the logo, and this has been carried across to the company's YouTube account as well. The last two videos uploaded to the Nintendo YouTube account feature the classic logo in the bottom-left corner of their thumbnail images - a recent change.

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[CathyRina]

Their logo is just as stuck in the past as they are

I'm sorry brother but I can only like your post once.

 

[TiMeBoMb4u2]

From Nintendo's 2008 Corporate Identity & Graphics Standards Manual...

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

^ Portrait of a graphics whore...

If I wanted to play 8bit or 16bit games I'd use my PSTV to play the retro emulators than new games trying to feed off the 80's and 90's visuals as if we were still living in those times. I wish, but we don't. Those who're into the retro-feel love these types of games but I'm personally tired of them as they're leeching from nostalgia.

 

[Procyon]

Breaking news: Apple turns their logo back to rainbow!

Yeah. I can poke fun at my own threads

Well, Tim Cook is gay.

 

[BurningDesire]

Well, Tim Cook is gay.

I forgot that. XD

 

[Deleted User]

Well, Tim Cook is gay.

No wonder Apple sucks dick.

 

[BurningDesire]

No wonder Apple sucks dick.

YOU DID NOT JUST GO THERE

 

[Fatih120]

Yay it's back

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

The Nintendo logo on Miitomo is white so are they going to change that or what? Very important matter, guys! >:

 

[Foxi4]

If I wanted to play 8bit or 16bit games I'd use my PSTV to play the retro emulators than new games trying to feed off the 80's and 90's visuals as if we were still living in those times. I wish, but we don't. Those who're into the retro-feel love these types of games but I'm personally tired of them as they're leeching from nostalgia.

It's a shameless cash grab and I find it disgusting. Trying to make new games look old is the gaming equivalent of getting rid of your old blue jeans to get a pair that's pre-bleached and pre-torn - it's not an upgrade if you still look like Raggedy Ann after an encounter with a lawn mower . This isn't to say that all 2D indies are crap - there are plenty of games that use the style to the benefit of their aesthetics and those are a true homage to the era, but these days most of'em just use a shitty filter or outright pixelate sprites to make them artificially old, and you can always tell the difference between quality pixelart drawn pixel-by-pixel and frame-by-frame versus pixelart that's just a drawing fed through a Pixelate filter in Photoshop. I can't stand that stuff, 90% of it is just downright awful. If I want to play old games, I'll just play old games on one of my gajizillion of consoles, get that crap off my PS4.

 

[dimmidice]

Nintendo higher ups: we are going down and down no matter what we do, we need a change now!!!
Nintendo marketing dept: what if we change our logo back to red again??
Nintendo higher ups: brilliant!!!!

they've been doing better the last 1-2 years though? financially speaking. probably cause of all the freemium stuff.

 

[Foxi4]

they've been doing better the last 1-2 years though? financially speaking. probably cause of all the freemium stuff.

Amiibos gave them a substantial boost in profits, they make those things faster than I can buy them. I need to buy new furniture because I've ran out of shelf space - my fiancee loves them.

 

[Pluupy]

Their logo is just as stuck in the past as they are

Not sure if joking...there are tons of companies which use the same logo, and the same design scheme, for many years. It's about establishing a trustworthy identity with your customer base and retaining it.

 

[Margen67]

Not sure if joking...there are tons of companies which use the same logo, and the same design scheme, for many years. It's about establishing a trustworthy identity with your customer base and retaining it.

It's not their logo, it's just the company.
They still have region locking, etc.

 

[GuyInDogSuit]

Ummm... Nothing exciting here, I guess.

Or it means that they're jumping onto the retro bandwagon created by all those shitty pixelated indies and will now produce pseudo-8-bit garbage under the guise of nostalgia to bilk suckers out of money. What? That's what I would do. I mean, it's 2016 and Pokemon still have pseudo-8-bit cries - they can't even spring for a recording booth when the anime "voiced" Pokemon since episode 1.

Oh, gawd, I hope not! We don't need more shitty pixelated "retro" games.

 

[Celice]

From Nintendo's 2008 Corporate Identity & Graphics Standards Manual...

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In Japan, the logo also took on a blue text against white backdrop for some time, or sometimes a white text against a black backdrop.

 

[EarlAB]

Ahhh...the days when my mom's N64 (N69, @VinsCool? ) would show a red logo was much better. Nowadays you just see a gray and white logo when booting up the Wii U and it makes you want to cut yourself and cry in the emo corner because gray is a depressing color. THIS will make me update my system if they update the logo on Wii U.
And guess what? I haven't been this happy since I started taking my meds, which was about 5 years ago. THANK YOU NINTENDO!

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

Ahhh...the days when my mom's N64 (N69, @VinsCool? ) would show a red logo was much better. Nowadays you just see a gray and white logo when booting up the Wii U and it makes you want to cut yourself and cry in the emo corner because gray is a depressing color. THIS will make me update my system if they update the logo on Wii U.
And guess what? I haven't been this happy since I started taking my meds, which was about 5 years ago. THANK YOU NINTENDO!

That would be cool. How nice would it be to see the red Nintendo logo on Mario Kart 8 and other games? But meh, wouldn't really expect it to be implemented.

 

[GuyInDogSuit]

Ahhh...the days when my mom's N64 (N69, @VinsCool? ) would show a red logo was much better. Nowadays you just see a gray and white logo when booting up the Wii U and it makes you want to cut yourself and cry in the emo corner because gray is a depressing color. THIS will make me update my system if they update the logo on Wii U.
And guess what? I haven't been this happy since I started taking my meds, which was about 5 years ago. THANK YOU NINTENDO!

It's really not THAT bad....

 

[EarlAB]

Yes it is. I would tear up whenever I saw the gray logo. lol