Heh.Nerevar said:yes, evil M$ stole the primary colors from Nintendo.
The originator, the Super Famicom logo and profile colors:
First one to be "inspired":
Second one to be "inspired":
And we've all seen the Xbox and Xbox360 controllers of course.
I always thought it was really strange that Nintendo changed the SNES console and pad design for the US, with the button colors and everything, since the graphical identity was so pronounced and saturated everything. Look at Super Mario World: The switch palaces, the different koopas, the Yoshi colours... then look at the four selectable ships in F-Zero... and so on and so forth.