This isn't quite E3 news, but it's big enough that it's worth bringing up in a week that's otherwise all about the news and the hype. A press release went up on Nintendo's Japanese Web site that announced a new red DSi and a black Wii for release in Japan later this year. The red DSi hits on July 11, while the black Wii and a suite of similarly colored controllers-- Wii Remote, Nunchuk, and Classic Controller PRO-- become available August 1.
Typically Japanese Nintendo hardware gets released in a broad range of vanity colors that never make it overseas to the US or Europe. Even if they do eventually come to the US, it can often be many months or even years after their initial Japanese availability. In the case of the black Wii, it's the first vanity color edition ever for that system and that's sure to drive up demand. While both systems look pretty slick, I wouldn't recommend importing just to have them... unless you want to be locked into the Japanese versions of DSiWare or WiiWare/Virtual Console, anyway.
