Nintendoās announcement overnight of a black Wii and a red DSi being scheduled for the Japanese market, got us wondering about those new colors coming to America. Who better to answer this than the president of Nintendo of America?
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We asked about the inevitability of new colors of the Wii coming to America, especially given that Nintendo had shown the Wii in multiple colors as far back as E3 2005.
āThereās a difference between showing different colors and making the product announcement that new colors are coming,ā Fils-Aime said. āWe have shown a plethora of colors in the past for the Wii. We have shown a wide range of colors for the DS. From an Americas perspective, colors do drive the business. Weāve shown that, for example, with the lighter blue DSi that we thought was a nice complement to the black. So there will be more colors for various hardware.
āIn the end, for us, itās all about: how do we time it? How do we leverage it, ideally with software? In Japan, linking [the black Wii] with the launch of Monster Hunter Tri [from Capcom] is why that announcement was made and why thatās being positioned as it is.ā
While Fils-Aime said that Tri is coming to the U.S., he wasnāt ready to talk about black Wiis or Wiis of any other hue.
