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As of right now, we have received no announcement for a black Wii in North America. In fact, it looks like we might miss our chances. According to MCV (UK), senior Nintendo product manager, Rob Lowe says the black Wii is a “limited edition” 2009 item, at least in the UK.

“Of course it would be wrong to attribute all of this to Black Wii as we’re all starting to see a natural peak season uplift on all hardware. “But we have been really pleased with Wii’s performance over the last couple of weeks and the new Black Wii has certainly contributed to that. In fact Black hardware sales have doubled week-on-week. We’re bringing in a decent supply of stock and hopefully retail will find it in plentiful supply this Christmas – although consumer reaction to the new colour might suddenly change that position. It is a limited edition version of the console so currently we only have plans for it to be available in 2009.”

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