Nintendo's Black Wii for $334

Looks good. Not really interested in the console though.

I've always wanted the Wii, but the white color throws off my black entertainment center set up. I might actually invest the extra dough to buy this sucker. Wii Sports is fun!

Not being available in the US may make the higher price understandable, but that doesn't necessarily make it "worth it".

So they change the injection mold formula to add black dye...
For some reason, I remain unenthusiastic.

$333.87 or a can of black spray paint and clear enamel costing less than $20. You could paint the Wii and all of its accessories.

It's called the "Apple tax"

Nintendo adopted the idea.

It's the Revoluti... oh they renamed it wii and made it white.,..

A cheaper solution would be to spray black color Duracoat on your white Wii. A better solution is to use Coyote brown as base color and digital camo pattern on top of it..

the "Black Edition" is a strong hit to the market.
Specially when the revenue started to go down compared to the past successful years for wii sales.

cheezy graphics... simple game play... no serious games...
am sorry but...
wii is a kids toy... you have to admit it...
i don't care if you thumbs-down me btw you are just proving ma point.

Nintendo did announced their sales with the WII is starting to wind down so they will start offering the black edition to the US Market just to generate more sales. I personally like black edition consoles as they look better in my entertainment cabinet.

So I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo would ship the black editions to the US near Christmas of this year just to create a new "demand" for these things. Sheesh.

Uh, $333 for different color?

I realize its unique, but seriously, you're not gonna take this outside of the house on a regular basis, unlike a cellphone or PMP. Plus if you buy this for little kids, I'm quite sure that color wouldn't make a tiny bit of difference for them.

I agree with you... and have always thought of it like that.

No FPS's or even good racing games gets a straight up "screw you Nintendo!" from me.

Although I will admit on occasion I'll have someone bring a Wii to one of my parties.

I'll get a can of chrome spray paint for less!
(Actual chroming is damned expensive, and even the supposed best place in my country did me some shoddy work.)

$335 for a PS2-like (graphics wise) console with motion sensing controllers? If only we could all be as smart as Nintendo. It's like selling dollar store bar soap for $4 after carving a smiley face on it and spraying it with perfume. Glorious!

You can just buy different case colors or even chrome if you realy wanted to, of course some people may be a bit uncomfortable opening up a Wii. (its really not that bad to tell the truth although soldering some of those tiny points is a pain....)

Personaly I could care less what the console looks like as long as its fun to play.

They aren't bringing new colors to the US so they can do THIS.
Overcharge you for an "import".
This is just Nintendo's feeble attempt to try and catch up with the big boys.
Natal is their doom.
And PS3 is only good when it's linked together with 20 other PS3's as a supercomputer.

It is not Nintendo whom charge you for the black wii. It is 3rd party vendor decide to earn extra moeny by imported them.

Those black wii wont have north America warranty like white wii.

You always pay extra for imported item becuase you are paying the service, otherwise you can always fly to Japan and buy it.

Everyone who is ragging on Nintendo for charging so much for this -

This is an import. $334 is not the MSRP. Reading Comprehension++

Nintendo is still charging launch prices for the standard console. TWO AND A HALF YEARS LATER. Yeah, I'll chalk up buyers of the Black Wii as the "more money than brains" crowd. I might get a Wii when Nintendo gives their collective head a shake and charges a more reasonable price, say $100 less than right now. In the meantime I'll stick with my Xbox 360.

Umm go drop $5 for a can of Krylon Fusion plastic spray paint... when your $334 black wii breaks good luck getting it fixed...

Say what you want about the PS3 but at least they did black at the beginning unlike the crapbox (red ring of death) 360 or Wii

Its the ultra urban black street wii All the crackhead techno geek brag-ass wannabes will love it!

Black plastic the most expensive plastic in the World!

Now if only Sony would make a white PS3 - I might buy one. It would cost less than $200 !!!

Nintendo Tax, lol. Serious gamer stick with PC Xbox 360 and PS3

I like when people argue that the Wii is a "kids toy." Yeah! Everyone knows that Adults play COD4, NOT Tennis with a remote. I mean, ultra violence with more realistic shading is far more mature than more cartoonish graphics with games designed to just be fun. *sings* I got my violence in High Def ultra-realism!

I won't be buying a black Wii... just pointing out hypocrisy as I pass through as normal. You know, never-ending war on the Stupid. We're losing, unfortunately.

what can ya say , dumb people out number us 5 to 1 , how else you think nintendo could get away with selling the same system twice with just minor tweeks to it (ie the wii uses bassically smae hard ware as the game cube they jsut added more ram, clocked the cpu and gpu up hihger and shrunk the die. ) now don'tget me wrong i'm no blasting nintendo , hell when it does come down in price i'll likely get one ther are a couple shooters on it despite what folks think , as well as some other more adult oriented games , and i don';t relaly care if teh graphics are behind a bit , main concern fo me is the price , hell took me 5 eyars to finally be able to get a 360 that was 50 bucks less. but yeah i totally get your point keep up the good fight , but some words of advice ..

"dont argue with stupid poeple , They will just bring you down to thier level and then beat you with exprience "

forget the spraypaint, you could always buy a custom shell for dealextreme and build your own black wii. why pay $334 for something that's been out for several months

Any ideas on a UK release date ?

Carl - www.wirelessnunchucks.co.uk

LOL wii a kids toy ya right. the only way to play tiger woods golf these days is on the wii cause once you played it with the wii mote you will not go back to a controller and MS Natal will be more limited than the wii mote since there is no actual object you use, sony's version of motion controls have a better chance of being used for games more than Natal. try playing a FPS with nothing LOL

i love people who bash natal without thinking. For one, the xbox already has a controller. For 2, who's to say one couldn't just grab their real golf club and use that in the game. Sure you don't need a controller but that doesn't mean you can't bring in props.