Reading the Tea Leaves at Nintendo

When Nintendo’s top brass gathered in Tokyo to speak to analysts Friday, they admitted they had been caught off-guard by the slowdown in Wii demand. To the dismay of analysts and fans, they did not announce a new Wii console, as some had hoped, or a revolutionary new game.

Weekend Update 8.08.09–The Lolcats Edition

It’s been a long time between weekend updates, and a long week without Peter Kafka, All Things D’s intrepid MediaMemo reporter. He returns Monday, and just in time, too, since John Paczkowski and Digital Daily will be out all next week. Must be August–do Europeans still take the whole month off? Or is that an urban legend? No matter; it definitely has not been sleepy around here.
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