Is there possibly a more perfect new logo than what was created for the Nintendo 64?
>simple, clean, cohesive
>rendered in 3d (a metaphor, to show that it's the arrival of the 3d era)
>all 4 SFC colors visible
>the logo actually has 64 faces
Whoever made this was a genius.
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incorrect red placement on the left = shit logo
snes was better
It's mean to represent the same shitty, pseudo 3D the gaymes on N64 often use. "Almost good, but not really".
>Is there possibly a more perfect new logo than what was created for the Nintendo 64?
Yes.
I don't get why they stopped using this after the PS2 ended. It was cool.
North America and Europe's were generic. Japan's was fine, but nothing groundbreaking.
They did? Because while the colors aren't there any longer they have used the shape ever since. If you wanted you can add the color back in some cases, I'm not sure why Sony hasn't capitalized on that.
They really need to bring back the color scheme and the logo.
The PS1 is still one of the greatest console designs of all time.
N64 and PS1 have the best console logos of all time. Nothing has even come close before or since.
Absolutely - in terms of an image that's instantly recognisable, has a simple but effective Red, Blue, Green colour scheme, and that perfectly sums up the concept of the console (both of them nodded to 3D as the main way games were going to be on their consoles) they're really the GOATs here.
Truth
>S tier
Gamecube logo
Playstation logo
>A tier
Xbox logo
PS2 logo
>B tier
Atari 2600 logo
N64 logo
Dreamcast logo
>C tier
Genesis Logo
SNES logo
Atari Jaguar
>D tier
NES logo
>F tier
Saturn Logo
Master System Logo
3DO logo
>Genesis Logo
What about the Mega Drive logo? (EU and JP are different btw)
>EU
C tier, just Genesis font spelling out "Megadrive"
>Jap
F tier, ugly as sin
gamecube and xbox over Dreamcast though?
Care to explain any of this? What makes Atari 2600 stand above NES, which stands above Master System?
>Thinking Times Roman Newman makes a good font
Georgia, but sure. I just don't see what makes it worse than this.
That font feels more eighties and thus more fun.
That's incredibly subjective so I'll offer my opinion in lieu of yours: The right-angled curves and square shape of each letter in the NES logo font do well to convey the higher resolution raster graphical capabilities of the system.
Very interesting takes. Any thoughts on
?
It's doing what the PlayStation did (console letters as an icon) albeit not as effectively, though you could argue it was spearheading the cleaner, rounded shapes and earth tones that were everywhere in the early-mid 00s, working off that 60s space age revival which never really went away. C tier
WHAT THE FRICK anon
How have I never noticed that the Saturn, Playstation, and Nintendo 64 logos all include a stylized 3D letter (or letters) before? That's fricking sick
The GameCube also has a G in the shape of a cube for a logo, it's a clever and effective design concept.
Judging it for it's time I'd give it a C as well (rating it today prolly C- or D). The main 3D element was decent looking enough when it came out and while I find the font choices ugly (that S in the top one is atrocious, the way it's rendered brings to mind the Kids Pix 3D spraypaint tool from the late 90's) I believe at the time they wouldn't have read as poorly.
I think my main criticism is that they both still feel amateurish or made by someone who wasn't really a designer. The shape language just feels super primitive. For example, the IDEA behind the S curving around the planet like Saturn for the logo is pretty good, but because it's so stretched it hardly reads as an S, and because they're rendering it as an extruded spheroid it doesn't read as Saturn rings. Without the word "Saturn" next to it, I'm not convinced people would assume it's depicting a planet, and we know for certain it doesn't read as an S around a sphere ( example
). The bottom one would actually be better if it were just the Text part of the logo imo, turning the Ring-S-thing black was a harmonizing attempt but man does dull blue, white, and black really kill the vibe. White black and that red-gradient S at least as a sleekness..
It's a better execution than the master system logo because the color placement has more harmony, but it's still running into the underlying problem of not not pulling its concepts together in a synergistic way where each one reinforces the core idea. The Gamecube logo is a G, but it's also a Cube, but it also has 3 'cube shells' (which is cubed), but it's also the same color of the actual console, and it actually features a primitive representation of the console in the middle... It's a good design with each design element reinforcing the others. It reads up close and far away, the color choice is strong, it's simple but interesting compositionally, AND they came up with a cute little animation to unravel it.
This is actually cool.
Sega's iconic Blue white font is really strong. That and their Dreamcast Spiral are easily their two best design successes imo.
The Nintendo logo feels more cohesive, the Sega one uses white blue and red which isn't bad in and of itself, but because the red isn't found at all in the Sega area of the logo, and the blue isn't found in the Master System part of the logo the entire thing feels disconnected. Like two ideas competing for my attention rather than one. They're trying to tie it together with the accented white, but there's so much more of it being used on the top compared to the bottom, and it's used in a completely different way (outline vs underline) so the attempt fails in execution.
The NES one looks alright, it's not winning any awards but it does it's job and doesn't call attention it's faults, the Sega one is pretty garish by comparison. IMO at least.
>Rolex
>Time
>Practically every newspaper logo
What do you have against serif fonts? Don't tell me you're still using Helvetica.
>F tier
>Saturn logo
>blue and grey
>blue and black
Talk about succeeding in failing.
You do know what Saturn is, right? It wasn't just the guy devouring his child.
I know it's supposed to look like the planet, genius. I'm talking about the uninteresting colors.
Saturn in space is black and grey and a little blue and red but we don't need to incorporate that for the point to stand, Sega's corporate logo color is blue. If you determine the quality of logos by colors, is your favourite logo Dickhouse?
>if you don't like something boring does that mean you like something obnoxious
No, moron.
>If you determine the quality of logos by colors, is your favourite logo Dickhouse
Responding with
>if you don't like something boring does that mean you like something obnoxious
Would indeed mean you judge logos solely on their color. Fruity.
>SNES C tier
the american one maybe but this is kino
It looks like a rejected Olympics logo
The N64 logo does not have 64 faces or vertices, stop repeating factoids without checking for validity yourself. Fricking tendies
Great logo to spend hours staring at when it's the system you're stuck with and there's nothing worth playing.
>it doesn't have mountains of shovelware, unplayable
Great console warring. 10% of non-shovelware games still means 410 games worth playing, which is still more than N64's entire catalogue of games. Get fricked.
You seem to know those numbers by heart. Absolutely pathetic.
You can tell how deluded someone is by whether they're a fan of the SNES, N64, or GameCube. I suspect you're a fan of all 3.
Only stable, non delusional people memorize percentages and console library numbers.
I can understand how facts get in the way of talking shit. They really ruin your shitposting party, right?
You entered this thread about console logos to seethe about the N64.
ah the whole "/vr/ is one person" defense
If this is you
then you have yet to contribute anything other than your opinion on game libraries (which isn't the thread topic by the way)
That's even worse, why are you even participating in a conversation that isn't your own? he wrote, entering into a conversation that wasn't his own
legendary masters at Nintendo knew what they where doing
See
>Doesn't list the OG of consoles having stylish logos
It's ok, you probably weren't alive. I barely was...
I forgot to even mention you can see both the ball and paddle in the logo as well
Not a console but shoot man I don't think theres a better logo than Sonic & Knuckles period.
im knuckles
unlike sonic i dont chuckle
>the logo actually has 64 faces
How many times did you count each face to get 64?
There may have been some obfuscation of facts.
i count 32
i guess if you count the internal faces as if it's hollow that would make 64, but that's a stretch.
Its supposed to represent 3d so you're supposed to count them
No you're not. No 3d software counts inside amd outside faces of polygons, not one.
It's 24, see
Didn't count on poor counting skills though. Ha.
if your logo doesn't have a dragon it's shit
Looks like someone impaled a snake with a hockey club
>hockey club
They're sticks not clubs what the frick.
Sorry I don't live in Finland
The arabic Master System 2 is the best logo there is I'm pretty sure
I like the Game Gear's logo.
It deserves a lot more love.