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Only newcomers will buy a Black Wii


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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
PostPosted: May 16 2010 01:27 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I just realized that while there are even trade-in offers (the old model with a wiimote and nunchuk for the new one) for the black Wii, anyone who invested in the virtual console. WiiWare, or even select games with non-transferrable save files (lookin at your Brawl and Darkside Chronicles) will have to repurchase/repeat progress again to get that same stuff on the new console.

Given that observation, how well do you think this thing will sell?


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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
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PostPosted: May 16 2010 01:32 pm Reply with quote Back to top

This was supposed to be a launch color!
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
PostPosted: May 16 2010 01:35 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The Wii is not hardcore enough to be black. Baiting



 
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
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PostPosted: May 16 2010 01:37 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Blackout wrote:
The Wii is not hardcore enough to be black. Baiting

"But it's like...how black can this be? And the answer is none. None more black."


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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
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PostPosted: May 16 2010 01:38 pm Reply with quote Back to top

lordsathien wrote:
Blackout wrote:
The Wii is not hardcore enough to be black. Baiting

"But it's like...how black can this be? And the answer is none. None more black."

Exactlys, it's not like yous can turns a Wiis ups to eleventys! Rolling Eyes



 
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PhreQuencYViii
Title: olololol
Joined: Jul 25 2006
Location: VA
PostPosted: May 16 2010 01:42 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I don't like it because it's glossy. It'll just look like crap after awhile like my black Wiimote.


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V.B.D.
Joined: Dec 20 2009
Location: CA
PostPosted: May 16 2010 02:13 pm Reply with quote Back to top

If I really wanted the black Wii (which I don't), I'd just spend $20 on a replacement shell on ebay. Trading in your wii + 2 wiimotes/nunchucks + money just for the same thing in a different color is retarded.
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PhreQuencYViii
Title: olololol
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PostPosted: May 16 2010 02:17 pm Reply with quote Back to top

..............I might have done that with my 360 when the Elite came out...........maybe........but I did want HDMI..............


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sidewaydriver
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PostPosted: May 16 2010 04:26 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I want an Orange Spice Wii goddamit, just like I wanted my Orange Spice Gamecube that never came here.


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MetroidMark
Joined: Jul 13 2009
PostPosted: May 16 2010 07:00 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I just spray painted mine. Used some Krylon Camouflage black paint and gave it like 2-3 light coats. Covered everything that needed to be with painter's tape and used Vaseline to protect the "Power", "Reset" etc. Worked like a charm. No need to wait for Nintendo to come out with a black Wii, or any other color for that matter.

DIY ftw.


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PhreQuencYViii
Title: olololol
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PostPosted: May 16 2010 07:19 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Krylon ROCKS. My Genesis is blue.


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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
PostPosted: May 17 2010 08:08 am Reply with quote Back to top

lordsathien wrote:
I just realized that while there are even trade-in offers (the old model with a wiimote and nunchuk for the new one) for the black Wii, anyone who invested in the virtual console. WiiWare, or even select games with non-transferrable save files (lookin at your Brawl and Darkside Chronicles) will have to repurchase/repeat progress again to get that same stuff on the new console.

Given that observation, how well do you think this thing will sell?

I agree. It would be less costly and time consuming to learn how to properly repaint a white one than it would be to redo save files on black unit.



 
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