Nintendo shatters dreams, has "no plans" to ship black Wii console in USA
By Darren Murph 
posted July 16th 2009 2:19PM
posted July 16th 2009 2:19PM
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posted July 16th 2009 2:19PM
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Well.. I guess there's always Colorware.
... or a can of spray paint for those cheap bastards.
Or electrical tape! Makes the WiiMote buttons a little hard to press but other than that works decently well and a roll is under $3.
There's a couple of 3rd party casemods out there. I've had a Black Wii for about a year now. I don't have the neat black controller, but the thing goes in the big Wiimote condom anyway.
They're getting as arrogant as Sony was when they were leading, who got as arrogant as Nintendo was when they were leading the first time around.
ok, so email activation is severely delayed. oopsie.
I totally agree.... Look at how Sony handled the PSP, PS1/2/3 controllers.... They have just black for us and give all the cool colors to Japan.
I don't like this but I have my ways of getting the Japanese products anyway.
I have multi coloured PS controllers in Australia..
first..
looks like the big N in the U.S doesnt like black consoles
Yeah except for the black Gamecube and my black GBA. And the black DS. Oh wait, those are Onyx. Sorry.
WHAT???
Relax, once Wii sales start to level off here, they'll sell it bundled with some big-name title.
MEH! WHO CARES! The Wii is a peripheral not a platform. Been saying it since day 1! Sony and MS will be proving the point shortly with the release of their motion sensing PERIPHERALS!
PS Nintendo should stop dissing and spec bump the black rig and ship it worldwide (while keeping the same price). The fanboys would wet themselves...
If Nintendo does ship the Wii to North America, the terrorist win.
Don't listen to them, I'll bet my life they release it here eventually.
As soon as sales start to drop significantly, you can expect them to ship the colourful ones out pronto, I'm sure.
@Infinity
Totally agree with you. If sales are still super strong in the US and plants are operating at capacity, no point in rolling out a new color scheme yet.
I agree with both of you. I also wager that come the holidays, they will have bundles that leverage both colors. I can totally see bundling Force Unleashed into "light side" and "dark side" OR "Jedi" and "Sith" bundles. Given LucasArts recent surge into XBLA and Steam, it would be an excellent tie-in for releasing LA classics on WiiWare.
It's too bad Perrin Kaplan doesn't work for NOA anymore... if *she* was the rep in question, you could pretty much count on this to be utter B.S.
No, they won't. Few companies do this sort of thing. They make a handful of colors exclusive in one country or another.
I am with you; I don't see the Kuro Wii hitting our shores anytime soon (read before the holiday shopping season). If it is being released in Japan on August 1st then I can't fault Nintendo for watching to see what it does. If the public eats up the new color, release it internationally. And that will give enough time to ramp up production for the holidays. If they don't sell well, they don't release them here and nobody's the wiser. Then people will find them on eBay. The end.
I want it to be the Revolution again. Then they'd all look like that.
My dream is for them to release the inevitable Wii HD, branded as "Revolution" in black, to differentiate the images of the two systems....perhaps keep the Wii SD on as a "budget" solution (like the PSP/PSPgo DS/DSi iPhone 3G/iPhone 3GS realtionships)
They're waiting for sales to drop just the right amount before they release it here.
It'll come, be patient. Nintendo adds new colors to devices to boost sales when they start to lag. I guess they just aren't lagging yet in the US.
I give it 6 months till they're available in the US.
Yeah exactly
Don't you mean you're "wiiping" uncontrollably?
You're hired.
"You can have a Wii console in any color, as long as it's white"
Nintendo can suck it. The black one would just show all the dust that has built up on everyone's Wii systems.
My expresso maker uses the exact same button (as your avatar) to turn on and off. Amazing.
If you haven't bought one yet, it probably has nothing to do with the fact it's white. If it is, then you probably don't really care about owning a Wii, and aren't terribly upset that you can't have a black one. You can still get a black PS3.
Part of my reason for not buying one is that it's white. It would stick out like a sore white thumb at my place.
I would seriously consider it if it was black. Being white, it would stick out like a sore thumb next to all my glossy black items. It's black or nothing.
@mile
and that there's no good games for it?
I owned a wii for 2 years of which it was played maybe 2 months and that was mostly mario party, warioware, and rayman. Those games are fun while smashed and/or in large groups. Other than that the system is junk, the games are junk and not much fun.
yeah, big woop another color (or lack there of). why not make something more interesting like blue, or green. everyone can do black... you know ... imac style.
iMac style? Which ones.... Aluminum (current), white (G4, G5,early Intel), or 5 colors (G3)?
i like nintendo, but this is a stupid move. People are clearly starting to lose interest in the wii, at least this would make stand out in some way for a while.
Just play in a very dark room. Problem solved.
Put it in a cupboard under the TV and just pretend it's black = Result !
Nintendo (white) Power!
so this is what it feel like, when an angel... loses its wings
I guess Nintendo doesn't want extra profit. Their loss.
like they really care anymore about making profit Satoru Iwata has a pool filled with with money is his house and gold tile. e3 09'/ 08' really showed that they don't care anymore.
What do you mean they don't care. They made the Pulse Measurer for the second time just to make sure that when you are bored almost to death by their system they can at least have the Pulse-o-meter phone the cops for ya.
Nintendo has been dissapointment after dissapointment this generation.
What a tragedy! So many people are going to cry now since they will never get to own black Wii consoles.
This will go down in history books as Nintendo's biggest marketing blunder.
Fail. Simply.
Just paint it yourself or order one from japan.