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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 6:35AM (Unverified) said

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Since when are nintendo fanboys writing articles for PS3fanboy?
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 8:41AM (Unverified) said

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So now anybody that recognizes a shit logo is a Nintendo fanboy?

You guys need some new material.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 6:39AM (Unverified) said

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That looks something taken directly from clipart.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 6:45AM (Unverified) said

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I like it. Looks like some badass grafiti.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 11:24AM Negativecool said

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It looks like a design straight out of the early 90's when people hadn't quite discovered what cool looked like yet...They figured if it words like "rad" in it or "tubular" or "bodacious" and looked graffiti-esque it was good marketing. (for references watch any TMNT movie/show)

Jesus they need to hire someone from Microsoft marketing...these shitheads don't know their assess from a hole in the ground.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 7:10AM (Unverified) said

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That is not a patent. It is a trademark.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:52AM (Unverified) said

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Yeah, apparently I don't know the difference between the two. Thanks for the tip; I made the changes above (even though it killed my awesome alliteration "paranoid patents")
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 10:54AM (Unverified) said

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Thanks... I was coming to post the same thing. It's my pet peeve.

The easy way to remember this:

* Copyright protects expression ( e.g., books, music )
* Patent protects invention ( e.g., products & processes )
* Trademark protects symbolic information ( e.g., brand names, logos, etc )

http://slashstar.com/blogs/tim/archive/2006/01/02/2286.aspx
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 7:12AM Sir SpankalotUK said

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Must be the same company that made the 2012 olympics logo for London. User created logo's FTW
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 7:16AM foxhound said

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The logo isn't that damned bad. :p Hell, if they were contemplating using it eventually for the PS4; they could easily "luminate" the bottom left of the logo(the part featuring the square and X button logos)to form a "4".
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:34AM (Unverified) said

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It must be nice to be blind. I'd say that logo looks like barf, but barf is more pleasing to the eye, as it contains several colors and textures.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 10:09AM foxhound said

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This is why the internet is both fun and ridiculous all at the same time; because comments like yours couldn't be read anywhere else but in a truck stop bathroom wall. However, thanks to the information super highway, your George Bush-inspired content can be read(and eventually forgotten)by all.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 10:47AM Cru said

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...This is kind of the bathroom wall of the internet. There's just really insightful people in the stall some days. Thoughtfully urinating on whatever Joystiq posts.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 1:37PM Korova Pamplona said

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trademark filings in general dont have color and are black and white. i dont know why, just because its government i guess.

anyway, it would most likely be used with all kinds of colors and lighting effects etc.

that's just my two drops :p
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 7:26AM (Unverified) said

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First the London Olympics logo now this! urgh.

Wait, first the 80's, then the Olympics logo then this!
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 7:30AM (Unverified) said

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wow.. I realy thought joystiq couldn't go any farther in their playstation hating but they just proved me wrong. great job guys ! :)
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 8:16AM rivaldi22 said

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Either you're joking, or you're mistaking playstation-hating with ugly-hating.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:02AM samfish said

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Nnnno...that's just a really, really awful logo design. Don't let your fanboyism blind you to fugliness.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 7:52AM (Unverified) said

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lol sony. you cant see me but i just had the sudden urge to do a hole digging motion in the air
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 7:54AM (Unverified) said

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I like it, it could just use some color.

It kinda looks like the logo of some evil cyberpunk corporation from bad fanfiction of something, though.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 8:39AM (Unverified) said

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And? sony *are* an evil cyberpunk coorporation:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/03/sony-calls-world-plus-dog

Systematically trying to remove the rights people have in using *their* media. Sony are fighting for DRM, regioning & against copying your own music to your own mp3 player whilst MS is about to flood the zune marketplace with a million DRM free, watermarked, tunes... and people wonder why Sony's image is eroding faster than the polar icecaps.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:01AM (Unverified) said

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Why should MS care? Its not like they have a music company that loses money from pirated music. For the same reason MS doesnt care about pirated movies either
Anyone can find 10 asshole things that MS has done for every negative that has come from Sony.

polar ice caps eroding? lol. Are they wearing away?
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 8:03AM (Unverified) said

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I too like it. Though could use some color or any type, but still I think it is a great logo.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 8:12AM (Unverified) said

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I like it... it's actually quite cool, it's more 'fun' than the serious 'I'm a computer not a games console' line that sony having been taking since ps3.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 8:13AM (Unverified) said

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In terms of design, it's not bad or ugly, ugly being a subjective matter anyway, but this looks more interesting than the current PS combination, in my opinion.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 8:30AM (Unverified) said

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Spoken like someone who isn't a designer, congrats.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:33AM (Unverified) said

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ok, smartypants, what specifically is so bad about it, design-speaking-wise? Use of negative space? What?

-p-
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 10:07PM (Unverified) said

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I am a designer, maybe not a professional one, but I know about the C.R.A.P. Way to assume, James. :) Be as pretentious as you like, by all means.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 8:14AM (Unverified) said

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What's wrong with it? I quite like it as n icon for a network feature of some sort.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 8:24AM (Unverified) said

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...yep, networking is pretty much what I think they've got in mind.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 8:19AM (Unverified) said

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its too young? in my opinion.
This new generation of gaming has more elegant and simple logos.
not logos from the 60's
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 8:54AM samfish said

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I LOVE the upside-down cross. Very Satanic. Almost guaranteed to piss off religious nutjobs.

Otherwise, in my (professional) opinion, that thing is really ugly. As was said earlier, mid-90's is rather apt. And it's not going to get any better when (if) they color the shapes the color of the PlayStation controller's buttons.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:26AM (Unverified) said

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Throwing my hat in the ring as one of those who kinda like it... or at least don't think it's Paris Hilton-ugly.

Not sure whether the colours would make it better or worse: http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd303/resident_nevil/logocoloured.jpg
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 1:12PM ThornedVenom said

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Saint Peter was a satanic nutjob?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_St._Peter
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Posted: Oct 5th 2007 12:32PM (Unverified) said

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I expected something not as bad as that. It's good to see I was wrong.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:07AM (Unverified) said

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If this isn't animated AND tiny, I suggest they set fire to whatever department inflicted this on the world right now.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:16AM The Last Metroid said

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I don't know why people are getting mad. That thing is ugly. Plain and simple.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:18AM (Unverified) said

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I almost care...
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:35AM zwarrior said

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...cared enough to make a comment about it right
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:56AM (Unverified) said

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I give them titties four thumbs down...
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 10:50AM Crono141 said

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Ooh, the milk's gone bad!
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 10:38AM Cru said

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The milk's gone bad!
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:35AM zwarrior said

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I like it actually
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:38AM LAZoftheTamarinds said

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That is UGLY. But if Sony is going to use it they might as well put some color on it.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:44AM (Unverified) said

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Oh. "PlayStation 360" logo. Makes perfect sense ... Pfft!
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:49AM (Unverified) said

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Thats an awesome logo....FOR ME TO POOP ON!
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 9:51AM prime8 said

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it seems like everyone on the internet is a design professional

just out of curiosity... which design firms do all you professionals work for
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 10:05AM (Unverified) said

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I've worked for various with my masters in product design, and bachelors in graphic design. FD in media design and BTEC (urgh, yea, I know) in multimedia design but now we've left university for college degrees which aren't as hot.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 10:39AM Cru said

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I'm sure there's a lot more of us skulking around than you might be aware. *crosses fingers* Design and video games are like this, son! :)
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 1:51PM (Unverified) said

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Don't work for a design firm, but I'm currently doing graphic design and marketing for a local company here.

I also Graduated in Toronto with an diploma in animation where I hope to start my new career.

So STFU.
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