Nintendo Okie

This week’s poll was pretty simple. A new, black Wii was released in the first part of August over in Japan. There has been a new color for the Wii Remote, Nunchuk and Motion Plus here in America. We at Nintendo Okie wanted to know if you would buy a new Wii just to get a new color. The results are in and here they are.

20% of you (1 vote) said you would buy a new Wii to get a new color.

80% of you (4 votes) said you would not buy a new Wii if it came in another color.

I think the thing about consoles is that in this generation they are so much more expensive than they were in the past and there is so much information tied to that system that it’s not really easy to just pick up a new system and get the information over to it. Handhelds have the luxury, at this point, of being very easy to deal with. You don’t have a lot of information that needs to be transferred and their price points are still low enough that it’s possible to go out and pick up a new one to get the color that you want.

If console manufacturers had the luxury of not having to deal with piracy issues or the price points were about $100 less than they are now then people would be more inclined to go out and pick up a new console to have that color. Also, so many electronic devices are black and people really like to have a unified look to their entertainment centers. Black consoles all mix really well with the black or silver DVD player, the black of silver cable box and a blue or a pink Wii would stick out and look out of place.

There you have it. My thoughts on this week’s poll. Leave us a comment down below and let us know what you think.