The black Wii U may be available at launch.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/31281
Nintendo will share details about Wii U color variations when they finally announce the launch date for the console.
Rich George of IGN tweeted a response given by Nintendo when asked about the availability of a black Wii U at launch. The company commented: "When we announce the launch date, price and specific components to be included in the package, we will also discuss the color variations."
Nintendo has featured the black Wii U console and GamePad alongside the more traditional white in its E3 and Nintendo Direct presentations and the black color variant has also shown up in some early marketing materials for the console. Both would seem to suggest the intention to release the console in both flavors. However, when announcing the Wii (then known as "Revolution") at E3 2005, the console was shown in black before being released exclusively in white in 2006.
Given that NeoGAF has pictures of marketing displays featuring both white and black Wii U systems, I think it's pretty safe to assume that both colors will be available at launch.
Given the confusion about what the Wii U is and how many people think it's some add-on to the Wii, I think they'd be best off not offering in white. People associate white with the Wii, so switching to a new default color scheme would be good to help differentiate it at launch.
Maybe... light blue like the boxart?!?I'm picking up the Black one but a Blue one would be pretty awesome!
(I hope not!)
"price and specific components to be included in the package" a bit vague but I assume they are indeed adding software to the standard console set otherwise they wouldn't have mentioned anything at all :0.
