I draw the line when I spend more than half of my post clarifying semantics. If you can't even figure out how "whim" relates to an unpredictable ('capricious', for the record) market then you're just not worth my time.

It's not unpredicatable. People have often payed attention to markets, see where they wer going, and their businesses adapted well. Unpredictability in the market is just another myth used to excuse businesses either refusing to change when they should, or changing when they shouldn't.

So whether or not you used "whim" correctly is irrelevant. You still applied it falsely.

It depends. Some people (a lot actually) rant about how Activision should stop milking the damn CoD franchise and pursue originality. My take is Nintendo, for some reason, is given more leeway in this regard.

Milking is the other extreme, which is making more than the market can sustain, eventually leading to a substandard product everyone is sick of.

The thing about leaks with hardware is that there are a whole range of people who get their hands on it - managers, hardware developers and software developers. The number of people who could accurately leak that Iwata is near firing are much much smaller and as such the leak should be given much less credence.

Don't respond to just the headline. The rumor is people on the board are considering having him removed from his position, not that he's actually near firing.

Same thing still. Far fewer people would know if the board was considering removing him from his position than if there were hardware problems.

You still are only partially reading, if you think that is the only reason this could be happening.

I think we may be miscommunicating. What I'm saying is that there is a rumour that there is a hardware problem with the Wii U. There would be a multitude of people who know about this hardware problem so a leak is more likely. There is also the rumour about Iwata being removed from his position, as fewer people could possibly know about this it is less likely to be leaked.

Again, it's not him actually about to be removed. It's rumblings that perhaps he shouldn't be in that position anymore. At least discussion about that (even if it didn't go anywhere) would be a credible thing if the stockholders were upset about what's been happening.