Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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TROUBLES IN TOYLAND Wal-Mart launches a holiday price war, and other toy merchants fire back...
...everyone. The plot is full of holes, and its language is worse than it has to be. But it has some swell supporting performances and a lot of vulgar inventiveness, and best of all, it plugs into--and electrifies--the mostly unacknowledged grimness that lies just beneath our holiday cheer. Go ahead! Have yourself a wary little Christmas. --By Richard Schickel
...Predicted increase in holiday sales this year over last...
Christmas is supposed to be a happy?and wildly profitable?time, at least if you're Satoru Iwata, CEO of Nintendo, one of the world's leading makers of video games. And during the '80s and '90s, it was a joyous holiday. For most of that time, the Kyoto-based game company could count on at least one of every two game consoles gift-wrapped under Christmas trees to have been manufactured by the firm. And each of those game boxes would generate revenue streams that trickled well into the new year, as customers became addicted to Nintendo-owned franchises...
...company's latest console, the GameCube, has proved to be an unmitigated disaster, giving this holiday season the potential to become the Winter of Iwata's Discontent. Nintendo has suffered such a string of bad news over the past few months and posted such disappointing financial results over the past few quarters that many investors, analysts and industry watchers are wondering whether the onetime industry giant can hit restart?or at least pause?in an increasingly competitive video-game industry. Not only is Nintendo struggling to keep pace with its larger, better-funded rivals?Sony and Microsoft?in the console...