GC: Nintendo reveals Pink DS Lite, new Wii titles

Nintendo has opened the massive Games Convention event in Leipzig, Germany, with an elaborate press conference which was light on new announcements, but which reaffirmed the company's market stance on extending the gaming demographic to new audiences with both the DS and the Wii.

The firm did not present any new information about the launch date or price point of the Wii, but did reveal two new software titles for the console - Battalion Wars 2, abbreviated as BWii, and Mario Striker Charge, a football title which was endorsed in a video message from German footballer Philip Lahn.

Both new titles are set to be playable at the Games Convention, which kicked off today and runs until Sunday, with over 150,000 consumers from around Europe expected to visit the show during that time.

Nintendo also took the opportunity to reveal that the DS Lite, which launched across Europe at the beginning of the summer, will be available in a new Pink colour from October 27th - a move which follows on from the massive success of the original DS console in pink.

The firm updated the audience on the success to date of the DS platform in this region, revealing that over a million units of the console have been sold in Germany alone, with 600,000 copies of Nintendogs (an incredible 60 per cent attach rate) and 150,000 copies of Animal Crossing. Brain Training, another of the firm's Touch Generations games, is repeating its long-term success in Japan with steady sales of 60,000 units per week in Europe.

Nintendo's conference will be followed at midday today by a conference hosted by Microsoft, where further details of the firm's plans in the run up to Christmas are expected to be announced. For a full blow-by-blow account of the Nintendo conference, you can read the archive of the live text coverage on our sister site, Eurogamer.net - and watch out for similar live text coverage of the Microsoft conference at midday.