By "improve" you mean weaken. The Yen is strengthening too fast against their two largest export markets. They need the dollar/euro to gain strength or the Yen to weaken in order to solve this portion of the problem, which doesn't look very promising (at least from the US side). With the weak dollar, the US consumers hold their wallets a little tighter and that needs to change if they expect an improvement. And, like Todd said below missing the Holiday season isn't putting them in any better of a situation. I have no fear Nintendo will come out of these troubled times just fine.

Blame Obama. The administration deliberately devalued the dollar so they could export the impact of the recession to other countries it trades with like Japan (charming). But then China does it back to the US by deliberately pegging the Yuan to the dollar when in fact it should by rights appreciate. Hence all the sabre rattling at the moment. If the US release another chunk of quantative easing the dollar will get walloped again and Japan will see the Yen go even higher.

Either way Japan is still screwed, zero growth for the last decade, an aging population and persistent deflation. Pity since I'd like to buy a Wii but I don't want to pay £150 for it.

Its good for Japan that the Yen is doing well..but overseas its terrible...like the US where the shrinking dollar isn't helping anyone.

Here in Brazil the dollar is plummeting too, the government here went batshit insane and buying dollars like there was no tomorrow, and still cannot prevent the price here from plummeting.

I actually like it, from the point that make the internal economy stronger, we /need/ lots of imported stuff, thus it makes everything cheaper internally, but the "elite" of the country here rely solely on exports, so they are not happy, and are doing their best to make the dollar rise again.


BRL was designed to be valued 1 USD. Currently one USD is 1.6 BRL, but in the past it reached 4 BRL... From the perspective of consumers, it not being 1 USD is bad, because lots of stuff is imported, and are thus valued 1.6 times than they should, but the people that export stuff, sold stuff for some years with values above 2.5 USD.

What happened there... did the whole QA team of Fallout Vegas get fired? Very strange that Bethesda let this game come out the way it did.

Agree. LOL Fallout NV--I've been playing the PS3 version--game froze on two separate sessions--hopefully patch will help a bit.

@Dan.

It is not strange at all, Bethesda do that in ALL their games...

Actually, the game engine is infamous for having some bugs that exist since Morrowind (seriously O.o), just take a look in the forums, sometimes you will see thread spamming of people complaining "Hey, X is bugged since Morrowind, when you will fix it?" or "Vats is bugged!" or "The game is crashy!" or every DLC launch: "Hey, I lost my save" or "Download is failing" or "I cannot connect to GFWL anymore!"

Yeah but usually not 200+ bugs, it's just allot buggier than usual... do they have a QA team? Me wonders...

I do give them props for creating such large worlds and games..that are extremely in depth.---I'm sure a lot of this won't show up the first time around. And they were most likely on a tight schedule and so they had to put some things off---priorities priorities---seems to be happening more often now with games---how many games come through that don't require a patch---even metroid-other m required a patch--nintendo never does that..but I really haven't run into too much---just some stutters and frozen screens--which is frustrating..but nothin I can't look past.

I bet that if someone put a thousand Navi (from Zelda, not from Avatar) as QA team, Bethesda games would not have a single bug. :D