Wii In Different Colours???

[MadDog]

Will the wii come out in differant colours??

[Cube]

Not for a while.

Retail lists have Blue, Silver and Pink Remotes and Nunchucks due at the end of June.

[DCK]

It hasn't been announced. Maybe the end of this year to increase sales even more.

And differant is spelled different.

[Tellyn]

MAAAAAAD DAAAAAAAAAAWG. The Wii console hasn't actually been confirmed to be released in a different colour... yet. We've had E3 prototypes of other colours of the console and remotes though, and like Cube said, we're getting different coloured Wiimotes and Nunchuks, so that could be preluding something big.

[Stefkov]

And differant is spelled different.
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I don't think it will come out in any different colours for a long while.

[Zechs Merquise]

I was surprised when Black didn't emerge.

[Smowza]

I think different colour Wiimotes will come fairly soon, black or green would be nice :)

[Ollie]

I want a black one to go with my black EVERYTHING ELSE! :nono:

[ReZourceman]

Racist.

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[Tyson]

Wii's don't have race, just different, meaning *gone*.

[Jamba]

I still want a red one but I have all my save data and VC stuff on my white one! Thats gonna suck.

[Emasher]

there was something mentioned at a press conference soon after launch about red and black ones coming out before holiday 2007 in japan

[Darkspine S]

Gold coloured Wii with next Zelda please.:awesome:

[Tellyn]

Gold coloured Wii with next Zelda please.:awesome:

Nonono! They did that with the GameCube and GBA SP after everyone had already bought the original, I don't want to have to buy another Wii!

[Hero-of-Time]

Big bumpage.

This is just in from GoNintendo.

Reader Andy sent in some interesting info. He works at a Target, and he’s been noticing something interesting with the Wii SKU. He explains the situation much better than I could have, so I’ve included a portion of his email below.

I work in the Electronics Department at a SuperTarget. Everything in Target has a DPCI number, which is kind of like a sku number. (For example, The number for the Wii is 207-25-0001) When an employee enters this number (either by hand or by scanning a barcode), it will give them the name of the item, price, location in the store, and a number of other details.

Here is what I find interesting: Before Christmas, when an employee would scan the Wii, “Wii Console” would come up as its “title”. However, I noticed that when scanning the Wii barcode, that, instead of “Wii Console”, “Wii White” would come up as the title instead. Attached is a picture of a location print-up which illustrates the “Wii White” title. I find this interesting because what made Target change the title from “Wii Console” to “Wii White”, unless there is another color coming soon. When a Playstation 3 is scanned, it doesn’t say “Playstation 3 40GB Black”, it just says “Playstation 3 40GB”. I’ve found Target to know about many things before they are released, such as having the iPods listed as “Discontinued” a week before the new ones were announced.


Its certainly a possability given Nintendos history with the N64/Cube and DS its just a matter of time really.

[Owen]

Black or Red i reckon....as much as i want one of them colours, i doubt i'll buy another wii or trade my white one in....

[Hero-of-Time]

Say you did want to buy another colour Wii how would you get your VC games onto your new console?

[Emasher]

I'm holding off buying a 4th remote until I can get a black one.

[Tellyn]

I don't think you could unless you hacked it/officially went through Nintendo. You could just put the hardware from your existing Wii into the new shell, but that would be pointless, you might aswell just paint your existing Wii rather than shell out £179 for the shell.

[Sparko]

I wish there had of been a colour choice at launch, instead of just white. Looks like I'm gonna be stuck with it anyway, no way I'd buy another Wii just for the colour.

[conzer16]

It's an inevitability that we'll have different colour Wii's. This is Nintendo after all.

[Pit-Jr]

Say you did want to buy another colour Wii how would you get your VC games onto your new console?

http://gonintendo.com/?p=13342

N-Sider: If someone acquires a different Wii console down the road—after their warranty expires, or perhaps just because they want a different color console, will they have any option for transferring their right to paid Wii Shop downloads or Wii Points to the new system?

Nintendo: The consumer can contact Consumer Service to determine the best options at that point.

What the hell kind of answer is that?? People dont want to haggle with Consumer Service over the phone just to get their games back. DO BETTER!

Since your Wii 'account' is your machine number, Nintendo is very capable of simply tieing your account to a 2nd Wii machine number. This would require you to download the games again (for free) from the Shop Channel, which is better than having to rebuy them

[phazonwarrior]

I don't think I'd be fussed about different colours - I think it's kinda iconic in white and helps it stand out against the competition - certainly not enough to be interested in buying another system but, as someone else said, its a good business strategy to boost sales. I've seen a lot of 'skins' for the Wii and remotes so I'd probably think of shelling out pennies for them before buying a whole new Wii. Colours? Blacks a must. Blue would be cool, green even better. Silver, maybe.

As for the whole VC issue i think thats a real shadow over Nintendo. Its unfair. You buy a new iPod and all your old iTunes purchases go on it!! It's a shame that a great company like Nintendo can be so stingy....

[Maiky-NiSuTe]

i really do not care any more. you can buy shells now so if i want it ti have an other color we easily can

[Emasher]

Perhaps nintendo will release a special USB device that copy's and reformats the system memory then when you plug it into the new Wii it copies the data over and then reformats the device. It will also write a file that will tell the Wii (both of them) to send a message to the internet the next time it connects to tell the Nintendo servers about the change.

[Shorty]

Seems quite unlikely that the first people to hear more about it are Target.

I imagine the data processing people behind the Target store are responsible for their own product nicknames, and that they aren't that clued up on them. They probably assumed there were multiple colours when doing an inventory or something and changed the name to "Wii White".

If Nintendo were keeping it so secretive that it's about to hit stores without our knowledge, would they really make this slip-up?

[the_mars_volta]

Anyone who buys another Wii just because it's a different colour either has more money than sense or is a complete and utter retard.
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[phazonwarrior]

Perhaps nintendo will release a special USB device that copy's and reformats the system memory then when you plug it into the new Wii it copies the data over and then reformats the device. It will also write a file that will tell the Wii (both of them) to send a message to the internet the next time it connects to tell the Nintendo servers about the change.


Sounds a bit complicated no?

Im sure it wouldn't hurt sales too much to just allow you to enter the previous wii number to your new wii to allow you to download your old VC titles.... even if they want to disassociate the old Wii with the VC titles you bought on it.

[Emasher]

The thing is it wouldn't be complicated. You would just plug it in, turn on the wii and say yes to the dialogue that comes up. Then plug it into the new Wii and press OK.

If you just let people type in their old Wii number people someone who just bought a wii could come onto a forum and find a person who has a lot of VC games type in their Wii number and then there set.

There are other problems too, it just wouldn't work well that way.

[Fierce_LiNk]

Hmm, do I want different coloured Wiimotes or do I get them all in the same colour?

I've got a thing about having matching colours, especially as the Wii is white and sexy. But, the black remotes are black and sexy. And the other ones, too. Bluddy hell.