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Wonder why the Xbox logo is green? Here's why

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Xbox Co-creator Seamus Blackley talked about this with IGN recently. When asked why the branding for the original Xbox was green, here’s exactly what he said.

 

A guy called Horace Luke, when we had to have a logo for a meeting or something, he had one of those awesome sets of markers with the paint tips, and so everybody immediately stole all of them. The only color he had left was like the green nobody wanted, and so we made all this artist stuff with green and now it’s like still green. And I find that bizarre. I mean, can you imagine? It’s like Horace and the green marker and now, you know, on buses in foreign countries. What? That’s crazy!

 

And here i thought companies did focus groups, and hired some clever people to decide these things. But apparently i was wrong :P

 

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lol

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I always thought it was because Nintendo is known to be red, Sony blue (at least since the PS2 years) so green would be a logical choice (together with yellow, which is a color not many people like in their electronics)

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WHAT....

 

I'm sure that most marketing teams work like this. Just put all of them in a box and see what  they draw.

"That'll be 2000 dollars for that new logo, sir"

 

But I must say, I like that shade of green

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I kinda thought it was because the DirectX logo was green, and as I recall, the "X" in Xbox was from DirectX. :/

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I always thought it was because Nintendo is known to be red, Sony blue (at least since the PS2 years) so green would be a logical choice (together with yellow, which is a color not many people like in their electronics)

Red

Green

Blue

RGB :D

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Red

Green

Blue

RGB :D

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Almost as if they named RGB after that :o

 

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Red

Green

Blue

RGB :D

 

RGB CONSOLES WHEN

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RGB CONSOLES WHEN

Wait up, XorsairStation U 720 RGB, coming soon :P

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Wait up, XorsairStation U 720 RGB, coming soon :P

 

At least it's from Xorsair and not corsair :P

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At least it's from Xorsair and not corsair :P

It features Corsair Xclusive Cherry MX RGB switches on the controller (hence the Xorsair) and the entire chassis of the unit lights up in RGB, with 300ppi screens instead of metal panels :P for all dat bling dawg

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It features Corsair Xclusive Cherry MX RGB switches on the controller (hence the Xorsair) and the entire chassis of the unit lights up in RGB, with 300ppi screens instead of metal panels [emoji14] for all dat bling dawg

And have software included, which require a 100 page pdf file [emoji14]

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