you might be right. I think it was both a distraction and promotion for the 2nd half support for this current gen.
Distracting "casuals" prob. won't work at all. Promoting their brand and business viability in this Wii affected motion market, well it might have elicited slightly more investor confidence but its only been two days.
“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.
