Are you a Nintendo Ambassador? Did you wait several hours in the blistering cold for your shiny Aqua Blue 3DS over a year ago? If you did, you better give it a tight hug tonight as it looks like Japan is ending production of that color sometime soon as indicated on its Japanese product website.

No reason was indicated as to why Nintendo is ending production of that specific color or whether this will also impact US sales, but with six other colors to choose including the new Midnight Purple 3DS, players still have a wide selection to choose from. Like I said, if you own an Aqua Blue 3DS, hold it tight. It may soon be extinct.

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With graduations and a few parental holidays quickly approaching, Nintendo wants you to share your favorite handheld with your family. But if you don’t want to let them borrow it for one minute, (they might not give it back after all,) you can now purchase one for them at a lower price without having to rummage through dusty stacks of used hardware at GameStop.

Starting May 20, prices for both the DSi and DSi XL systems will be dropped to $99.99 and $129.99 respectively. This new price will also separate them even more from the $169.99 price tag of the 3DS, so if gamers don’t mind foregoing newer titles and 3D graphics, these two “classic” handhelds will do them just fine.

With a library of over 2,000 games, both packaged and downloadable titles, there’s no reason why you wouldn’t want to gift them to your loved ones. That is, make sure they like to game, of course.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the robot apocalypse.

A new report by Eurogamer claims that the hardware that will eventually replace the current Kinect peripheral (presumably on the next Xbox console) will be so powerful that it can read lips and determine emotions by monitoring facial expressions. Citing unnamed sources, Eurogamer’s Wesley Yin-Poole says that the new hardware will feature higher resolution capture and a beefier chipset.

“It can be cabled straight through on any number of technologies that just take phenomenally high res data straight to the main processor and straight to the main RAM and ask, what do you want to do with it?” our source said.

I for one would like to welcome our new robot masters.

When Nintendo releases its next console it’ll almost assuredly have motion-control support.

Speaking with Popular Mechanics, Shigeru Miyamoto, the creative force behind many Nintendo games, said motion control will likely return in the Wii 2, and teased a lower price-point and physical size of the controllers.

“With both the Wii remote itself and Wii Motion Plus, what we’ve been able to do is introduce an interface that is both I think appealing and at the right price for a broad audience,” said Miyamoto. “And while we don’t have any concrete plans for what we’ll be doing with hardware in the future, what I can say is that, my guess is that because we found this interface to be so interesting, I think it would be likely that we would try to make that same functionality perhaps more compact and perhaps even more cost-efficient.”

Miyamoto also spoke about the lack of HD graphics on the current Wii system and if the next console would feature greater graphical fidelity.

“What I don’t think is particularly true is that the graphics make the game,” he said. “We’re still going to focus on the gameplay. We’ll take advantage of the technology as it comes out, but right now, this is what we offer.”

Nintendo started the motion-control gaming revolution with the Wii, so it would make sense that they’d continue that effort in the next version, but, and it’s a huge but, this is Nintendo we’re talking about, so your guess, or the guess of my ten-year-old sister, is just as valid.

What do you want in a “Wii 2″?

Source: IGN