While Japan are being treated to a lovely looking new shiny black Wii console and Monster Hunter 3 bundle, U.S. gamers (and more likely – all western gamers) are going to have to wait as a Nintendo rep from NOA has said there are “no plans to have other colors of Wii in the U.S.“

Of course this is baloney. It is inevitable that there will be other colours released elsewhere at some point, we’d stake our houses on it. The rep more than likely just forgot to add “in the distant future” to the end of his sentence.

With the company reluctant to drop the price of the Wii, new colours and game bundles are likely to be its strategy to boost sales in North America and Europe where the console is starting to slow at retail. Exactly like it is doing now in Japan where sales dropped have off much earlier.

If you factor this in with the fact that Nintendo sometimes likes to deny the obvious (remember denying a new DS model, two times days before they were announced?) then chances are high we won’t have to wait too long for new colour Wiis.