I was pretty much ready to leave this alone after its brief mention last week, but then the internet had to go and spark my curiosity. MTV Multiplayer's Stephen Totilo wrote last week that Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sales and marketing Cammie Dunaway told him that the Nintendo logo had been gray in America for "a couple of years."
Now, maybe it's just my past in high school model congress and an inherent desire to prove people wrong, but this inspired me to do some research. Thankfully, I didn't have to go much farther than my game shelf. The most recent games in my collection to feature the classic red Nintendo logo are August 2007's Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for Wii and and October 2007's Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for the DS, but a quick search on several popular online retailers' websites confirmed that the red logo was featured as late on North American packaging as November 11th, 2007's Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for Wii and November 19th, 2007's Mario Party DS.
That's not "a couple of years." That's one year, almost exactly, from when Ms. Dunaway's statement was made.
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