Exchange rate loss of 133.9 billion Yen = $1.352 billion USD / €1.009 billion Euros / £898 million Pounds.

Any company that can take a $1.352 billion dollar exchange loss and still post $5.5 billion in operating profit and $2.8 billion in net income should not be given such a negative overview. Period.

Actually wii sales have fallen in the US and EU the past several weeks as well. It's market share is also falling due to a mix of lower sales of the wii and higher sales of the hd twins.

MS is making money at the moment. The divison was in the red, because of slow Zune-sales, R&D for Zune HD, Windows Mobile Update and most of all slow sales of Mac Office.

But the article doesn't talk about that, and I don't think bloomberg has ever referred to VGChartz data.

So I think they're referring to Japan, without mentioning it, which is misleading. Analysts and Nintendo are forecasting higher sales this year according to the article itself.

2008 up to May 3:
6,255,300

2009 up to May 2:
6,258,034

Why expect it to be lower?

So, if Nintendo isn't optimistic about overseas sales, should Sony and MS resort to cutting themselves in depression? ;)

In interesting correlation, the same people also posted this today -

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aW3oK_AQU2M0&refer=japan

Nintendo Projects Higher Profit, Helped by Weaker Yen (Update1)

I guess in the fall and with some solid games this will change.

Looking at a few weeks of sales data is always questionable. In the next few months it could easily be up due to a different software release schedule than last year.

Yes but this is out of context.  If you are talking YOY then you are comparing this year with no major releases to last year where there were several huge releases in the second quarter for the Wii.  If you are talking compared to earlier in the year what does that actually mean?  The Wii sold more than a million fewer systems in the 3rd quarter last year than they did in the 2nd quarter.  That represents a far more significant downward trend than we have seen so far this year, yet they went on to have the biggest holiday season for a home console ever.  The software will come and sales will pick up again.  Last year the Wii had an unusually big second quarter, this year, it wil be the third quarter instead, mark my words.