September 2 - 11:45pm EDT   Nintendo on Tuesday announced it would continue its trend of offering multiple color renditions of its console systems by introducing a Metallic Silver Nintendo DS. Details on the new unit are sparse, but the overall design and functionality is expected to remain unchanged, as with most other product color revisions seen from Nintendo. The Metallic Silver Nintendo DS is due to see store shelves September 7th. [full story]

April 18 - 4:10pm EDT   Nintendo's Wii console continues to be the strongest-selling of all systems a year and a half after its launch, according to March statistics from The NPD Group. The organization says that about 720,000 examples of the motion-driven Wii were sold last month, helped in part by both its lower $250 price and the launch of the first Super Smash Brothers game for the platform. The result is nearly three times the 262,000 Xbox 360s sold and a slightly larger increase again over the PlayStation 3, which was near-equal at 257,000 systems sold. [full story]