Looks like Nintendo fans in Japan are about to have a lot to crow about. While we'll have to see if any of these goodies make it outside that country in bundle form, apparently new Wii colors will be released as bundles with Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The colors include Diamond Black, Red, Mint Blue, Snow Pink, and Famicom colors, and the bundles will include two Wii remotes and two nunchuks so you can get your brawl on in style. The packs will retail for ¥35,000, which is a little more than $313 U.S.. Not a bad deal at all.It's not all about Brawl, however. Word is that Mario Kart is coming in February and is confirmed as having eight player multiplayer (the number just keeps dropping), and on top of the bikes we'd already heard about, there will be animals as well. Maybe they should change the name to Mario Things-You-Can-Drive-Or-Otherwise-Navigate?
None of this has been confirmed yet, but if it is ... we could use some of those new colors! Oh, wait. Y'know, we could just use a few more Wiis, in any shade.
[Update: Alas, this news report was not the Famitsu you're looking for. Or, as commentor MidnightScott said more succinctly, this was confirmed as a fake translation.]
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12-11-2007 @ 6:40PM
mr nimblewick (SegaDF - Jogurt Ring) said...
I wouldn't mind have 4 wiimotes each of a different color, much like my gamecube controllers (purple, purple and transparent, black, wavebird).
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12-11-2007 @ 6:47PM
Joshua said...
New colors are exciting, but I won't be buying another Wii, so yeah...Good for other people, though.
Hey, but maybe we'll get the colored controllers released separately?
And Mario Kart...Please don't ruin it...
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12-11-2007 @ 7:05PM
james said...
ahh, but how to transfer your VC games?
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12-11-2007 @ 7:22PM
Nushio (NDF - Blue) said...
You cant. Though I guess that you could sell your Wii right now, which is fetching 300-400 bucks on eBay, then repurchase the titles ;)
12-12-2007 @ 4:42PM
Morris Levy said...
James,
All you have to do is re-download them via the Wii Shop Channel (for free, no joke!). Just format your data first before hawking that Wii.
Peace.
12-11-2007 @ 7:13PM
alex said...
i want get a wii but i want a colored one like the wi controllers when are they coming out
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12-11-2007 @ 7:20PM
A. says "raw" said...
i'd love to hav a non white controller, except for the fact that i already have two wiimote + two nunchuks and i am usually the only one who plays it (sometimes my friends and i party with it). so, yeah, those collored controllers are a waste of money for me... unless nintendo lets us swap our whites for the reds, blues, blacks, greens, etc. which would be AWESOME not to mention NOT GONNA HAPPEN
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12-11-2007 @ 8:57PM
vidGuy said...
Remembering that the Japanese Wii does not include Wii Sports and retails for 25k Yen, or about $215, that pack in would save you about USD$10. Nice, but not something uber amazing.
Colors are nice and all, but out of all of those I'd stick with White.
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12-11-2007 @ 9:00PM
RDX said...
Oh god...animals? I'm not a huge fan of the motorcycles even. Didn't Mario Kart DS prove that going back to just karts was the way to go?
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12-11-2007 @ 9:45PM
Shadow31 said...
And, um... how did it prove that?
Mario Kart DS had the most variety of any Mario Kart game. You could drive karts, tanks, robotic legs... pretty much anything that doesn't even make sense. So tell me again how Mario Kart DS WENT BACK to karts?
12-11-2007 @ 9:48PM
RDX said...
I knew someone was going to say that. I should have said traditional one person kart style. Sure, there were tanks and other stuff but they still played like karts. That's what I meant. I'm guessing the animals and motorcycles play differently.
12-11-2007 @ 9:14PM
MidnightScott said...
Confirmed Fake on NeoGAF =P
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12-11-2007 @ 9:47PM
Shadow31 said...
On the Mario Kart... yes, that sounds sorta cool I guess, hard for me to imagine, but I already thought it was a shame Donkey Kong Racing never came to GameCube, if somehow Rambi is in this (though it sounds like random animals), I'd be ecstatic.
As for the colored Wiis... I'm not getting a second Wii and I already have 4 Wiimotes and 2 nunchuks, along with 2 classic controllers. No point for more Wiimotes, but I'll think about a colored nunchuk or two... classic controllers sound nicer...
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12-11-2007 @ 9:53PM
Sora267 said...
SNOW PINK!? Snow isn't pink unless you're bleeding on it...
Wait a minute.. Blood on the WII?! Manhunt 3 CONFIRMED!
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12-11-2007 @ 11:10PM
tiamat1990 said...
I instantly call bullshit. Let's read this again:
"The colors include Diamond Black, Red, Mint Blue, Snow Pink, and Famicom colors, and the bundles will include two Wii remotes..."
How are they going to manage making all those colours along with the plain white ones? They can barely make them! And two Wiimotes? Why would they jeopardize the success of Wii Play??
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12-12-2007 @ 1:12AM
Tristan said...
oh wow is that the same midnightscott that iused to know on a few forums?
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12-12-2007 @ 2:27AM
Jean B said...
Seriously guys, I love reading your website, but don't hate on Mario Kart. Every Mario Kart post I read here keeps staying annoyed at how "Kart" isnt "just kart" anymore. You don't complain at all the changes "Brawl" is making. If "Kart" had stayed the same there wouldn't be anything to make us anticipate it.
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