DS Lite in Black

SPOnG has just been pointed to a scan from the latest issue of Japanese gaming bible, Famitsu, which seems to indicate that Nintendo are planning to introduce a new colour for the DS Lite - that colour being black.

SPOnG thinks that it is all well and good for Nintendo to announce to the über-priviliged Japanese gaming community that they can have yet another colour of DS Lite, but what we really want to know is; when can we get our mitts on the iPod-a-like white DS Lite in Europe? Come on now Nintendo, get us told! With these black DS Lites in Japan, you are merely teasing us now.

Now that our girlfriends have also noticed the widespread TV advertising for Animal Crossing Wild World, and have started to express more than a passing interest in running away with our current DS's, we really do need to get hold of a shiny white DS Lite.

Plus, this way it's a clear win-win situation for both SPOnG and for our better halves, as we get the shiny new gizmo to show off to peers on those rare occasions we venture away from our screens, and the ladies get the premier designed-for-children DS wonder toy on which they can live out their fantasies of domestic bliss, wilfully ignoring the fact that they have unfortunately chosen to shack up with game and gadget-obsessed human males.

In further news from our Japanese cousins, SPOnG also noticed that Nintendo cleaned up in the recently announced 2005 Famitsu awards, with Animal Crossing DS, Nintendogs and Brain Training all picking up awards, which (if you can read Japanese) you can see on Famitsu's website.

Or, if like us you haven’t got past your Berlitz Japanese in ten easy lessons CD yet, you can see the results right here (with all relevant Japanese sales figure per title):