A - No
B - Demand in general, dude. As in the whole stockmarket, the whole economy is dragging estimations of purchasing power down for the US. You live there right? Well how many people have lost their jobs.
C - Sony is listed right along side it, you edit that out or its irrelevent. The article is about japanese companies relying on US economic factors to maintain confidence in their stock. Theres no confidence anywhere in what the USA economy is doing and hence has nothing to do with DS or Wii specifically at all.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
