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E309 Media | Nintendo To Release Black-Coloured Wii and Red DSi

04.06.2009

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At a recent Retailer Meeting in Japan, Nintendo have unveiled the Wii's First new SKU and an alternate Colour for the DSi.

Nintendo will be providing newly-coloured Wii Consoles, Black Wii Remotes, and Black Classic Controller Pros. The Black Wii has not been seen since the original unveiling of the then-codenamed Revolution.
Prices for the new coloured console and accessories are expected to be the same as regular White Wiis and Controllers, and all will be released on 1st of August in Japan.

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To Co-inside with the release of Dragon Quest 9 on July 11th, there will also be a Red DSi. It will be a standard colour and not a special edition DQ one.

Any Non-Wii owners here interested in the prospect of a Black Wii or Red DSi?

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meeto_0 04.06.2009#1

This is the perfect chance to bundle motionplus into the remote itself. Japanese buyers more then any other love to trade in.
They could increase the price but offer a reduce rate for those who trade their old console.

An even better option would be to hold off redesign to make it a little thinner and up the power to output 720p at least. Then devs could better port hi def games using unreal engine.

JoshSL 04.06.2009#2

The classic controller actually looks pretty cool in that bottom pic. I just really hope we get some different coloured Wiis in the west.

Price drop still seems impossible.

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Stulaw 04.06.2009#3

I wish they released the choice in the first place, the Wii was my first home console that wasn't black, and the Wii looks pretty nice in black.

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WP-Final 04.06.2009#4

It looks amazing. Is there any way to transfer Wii Shop Channel accounts to another Wii as I've got loads of VC/WiiWare games?

Phoenom 04.06.2009#5

wAyNe - sTaRT said:
It looks amazing. Is there any way to transfer Wii Shop Channel accounts to another Wii as I've got loads of VC/WiiWare games?

It might be possible if your games are tied to a Club Nintendo account, but you'd have to ask them. Smilie

jb 04.06.2009#6

Holy shizzle that classic controller looks gorgeous! Really liking this black model - nice on Nintendo! Smilie

Interesting point about transferring games and the like across, it maybe possible but imo it\'ll probably involving sending in the old and new Wii methinks.

( Edited 04.06.2009 15:23 by jb )

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RufDogRacing 04.06.2009#7

Highly sexy.

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Canyarion 04.06.2009#8

Gorgeous. I bet it will boost sales in Japan.

L 04.06.2009#9

That looks so much better that the white one.

I need one

( Edited 04.06.2009 16:09 by L )

EdEN 04.06.2009#10

While the new black color looks great, I'll stick with my launch White Wii.

I've never traded in a console so I could get a color change (Purple Gamecube and all) and I won't be starting now.

Still, this will definitely push Wii hardware sales upwards of 50,000 consoles a week for at least a month since Monster Hunter is such a huge franchise in Japan and many people are holding off on buying a Wii until this saw a release.

Can you imagine the sales when Dragon Quest X launches bundled with a Wii in Japan in "Slime Blue"?

Guest 04.06.2009#11

Thinking of getting a Wii in 2010, so I would definitely go for this version. Looks great. Smilie

Darkflame 04.06.2009#12

Bart.... said:
Thinking of getting a Wii in 2010, so I would definitely go for this version. Looks great.

Thats a long time to wait.

With Prime Trillogy, Galaxy, Twlight Princess theres probably 200hours of gameplay even if you are -very- fussy with what you buy.
Add another 60 onto that if you never played Okami.

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PMD 04.06.2009#13

I prefer the white Wii since it is more unique. However, if they released a red system, I'd be all over it.

Echoes221 04.06.2009#14

About time.

Guest 04.06.2009#15

Darkflame said:
Bart.... said:
Thinking of getting a Wii in 2010, so I would definitely go for this version. Looks great.
Thats a long time to wait.
With Prime Trillogy, Galaxy, Twlight Princess theres probably 200hours of gameplay even if you are -very- fussy with what you buy.
Add another 60 onto that if you never played Okami.

I've got my DS in the meantime. Three games out of the ones you mentioned I played on the cube, so that leaves Metroid Prime corruption and Mario Galaxy. I can wait, really.

Arctic Fire 04.06.2009#16

I wants a black Wii. I don't really like the red DS, but the black Wii is sexy. Smilie

trgdr777 04.06.2009#17

I'm so jealous right now lol. This might be the first console I've ever traded for a different color. (I jumped on the GameCube train late in the game, so I was able to skip the purple and buy it and black) Smilie