The points offer is good from the date of release until March 2010. There was also an announcement of a new game due out the same day - Nintendo Presents: Style Boutique. In it, players act as a store consultant picking out stock to build a successful store. Exquisite!

New European DSi Colours Dated [Eurogamer]

"We don't have anything to announce for the U.S. on either of those products," Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told Kotaku this morning. "We know that it will be reacted to quite positively in Japan.. but no news for the Americas markets for those two products."

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.

"There's a difference between showing different colors and making the product announcement that new colors are coming," Fils-Aime said. "We 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. We've 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.

"In the end, for us, it's 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 that's being positioned as it is."

While Fils-Aime said that Tri is coming to the U.S., he wasn't ready to talk about black Wiis or Wiis of any other hue.

"Nowadays, all screenshots basically look like they are from the same post-apocalyptic World War III nuclear fallout nightmare," smakus writes. He finds games to be stress-causing and not stress-relieving because of the dreary, gritty environments we're subjected to, compared to grim titles like Doom and Duke Nukem that dealt death largely in primary colors.

Next-gen "realistic" games (i.e. non-cartoon protagonists or action) with lively, bright colors? I can think of Bully, although the winter months stretch of that game started getting me in a funk. TF2 has cartoons in a real environment. And there's Guitar Hero and Rock Band, but that's probably outside the scope of the writer's argument. I'm sure all of you can think of more.

Like I said, I am color-blind as a bat, and so asking my opinion of a color is almost beyond useless. But it is a good question regarding design: What is ultimately the reason people will buy a game — realism or fun? — and how should that govern the rest of the game's look, feel, sound, story, etc?

I Miss Color [TrustyGamer]

ToyTech has released AC adapters that match the pink, light/crystal blue, white, black, and navy blue versions of the DS Lite (yet, notice how there no metallic colors). Each one costs about 2,079 yen ($17), which isn't too bad of a price to have an extra (and matching) adapter laying around the house. And since Japan uses the same electrical plug as the US, blowing up a DS into pieces of barbecue confetti isn't even an issue. Anyone want to loan me $20? Kim Phu

Color Coordinate Your DS Lite and its AC Adapter [Silconera]

Following Nintendo Through the Ages and Colors [ColourLovers]

Sony Computer Entertainment today announced that they would be bringing three new colors to Japan's PSPs. Pink, blue and silver will join the white and black PSPs already being sold there. Prices will remain unchanged. The pink hits on Nov. 22, silver on Dec. 14 and blue on Dec. 22. Now to see if anyone has the berries to export them. Brian Crecente

A last year's E3, Sony rolled out the PLAYSTATION 3 in three colors: Black, white and silver. Two of those console colors have since vanished, and we've been flowed with pics of the black PS3. But, what about the others? I want silver!

Tough tits, Ashcraft. Sony Europe has apparently announced that only the black PLAYSTATION 3 will launch in Europe. Moreover, Sony's North American PlayStation site only lists a black PS3. It would've been way cooler if Sony first showed us the black machine and then a while down the road, unveiled these "new" colors. Then we'd have something to get excited, and not annoyed, about. Brian Ashcraft

More Here [I4U]

I still have no interest. But at least now I can say I looked at it before forming a final opinion.