I've noticed that the 6th gen had a unique quirk where every hardware manufacturer used a single color motif for their hardware, including packaging, and to a lesser extent even marketing materials. White for Sega, Blue for Sony, Purple for Nintendo (including the GBA), and Green for Microsoft.
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Anyway, I just wanted to talk about trends in console hardware.
Every one of those had multiple special color editions, even Xbox.
Obviously those weren't the "regular" versions of the hardware.
Stupid pedantic moron comment
>unique quirk
Nintendo was grey
Sega was black until the Dreamflop
Nec was white
Absolutely not. 6th gen was the ONLY gen where EVERY hardware manufacturer used a consistent color motif through ALL materials related to their hardware for that gen, including packaging and marketing. This really wasn't done for any other generation for some reason.
Saturn also came in gray and white.
>Atari
ATA2600 : Black and wood
ATA5200 : Black and silver and rainbow colors
ATA7800 : Black, silver and rainbow colors
Jaguar : Black and red
>Nintendo
FC : White and Red because Japan
NES : 50 shades of greys
SNES : 50.05 shades of greys+4colors in EU and JP or Dark and light blue buttons for USA
N64 : Dark Grey mostly
Gamecube : Rainbow Madness Tantrum
Wii : Mostly white
>SEGA
SG1000 : White, Blue and a touch of red (Japanese 80's baby)
MS : Black and red
MD : Mostly black
Saturn : Black (White in JP)
Dreamcast : White
>NEC
PCengine : White and red
Core Grafx/Turbografx : Black
Supergrafx : Black and blue
PC-fx : White
>Sony
PSX : Grey mostly
PS2 : Black mostly
PS3 : Black mostly
PS4 : Black
PS5 : White and black
>Microsoft
XBOX : Black and green
X360 : Mostly white and green
XONE : Mostly black
SeriesX : Black and white
+Most consoles have a crystal/limited/silver/gold version and i didn't count the handhelds. Micro computers were crème or beige for some reasons or even coffee...Commodor style !
Conclusion : The colors makes no fricking sense since they only follow the current trends and most of the time, they understand what people wants a lot too late. Cheesus Christ even Xbox dropped the green colored branding that suited them so much since 2003.
>XBOX : Black and green
XBOX shell is dark green, have a look at one outside in the sun.
2nd gen publishers had a weird obsession with rainbow motifs.
There was of course Atari themselves.
But Coleco did the same thing with their logo for the Colecovision.
And then of course Activision used it for their box arts.
Imagic also did something similar with their logo and the packaging for their games.
Color tv itself was new you dumb ass
North American Dreamcast switched to black in 2000 to look cool against the impending PS2. In Japan the Dreamcast had a consistent orange motif and in Europe a blue one
I’ve noticed that the soda brands have a unique quirk, in that they all have brand colors. Wow incredible
nobody show this man state flags
Minnesota is changing its flag to a blue Pac-Person sucking a giant wiener
Are you literally illiterate? The answer is yes.
I think before 6th gen grey/beige was just the default color for serious electronics and they probably just wanted to play it safe and not scare away potential customers with something that looks like a kid's toy. Or something. 2000's kinda killed fun and colors in general and trends went towards the black&white hellscape that we've only recently started to recover from.