It sounds like a pretty weak start. It will be important to watch how sales are in the last week before Christmas.

I think it will sell well. The current DS has sold well for such a clunky portable device, so users are going to like the smaller version even better.

Nintendo is probably going to wait to revise its forecasts until early April after it knows for sure what the effect of foreign exchange rates will be on recurring and net profit in the fourth quarter.

Some integration of businesses and coverage areas should help raise efficiency and profitability.

It looks pretty clear that sales volume will decline from record level but will still be high while prices will continue to go up.

Last week, chain-store sales came in pretty strong. But if you stripped out gasoline sales from Wal-Mart and Costco it really showed us that consumer spending had started to weaken on a fundamental level.