Wiimbledon!

Joseph Laszlo | June 19, 2007, 02:46 PM

Far be it from this blog to provide weekend activity suggestions, but if you're in Brooklyn this Saturday, maybe you want to check out Wiimbledon.

Two reasons for mentioning it here: one is that it's an amazingly clever coinage; I know one of the organizers, this is one good demonstration of why he's a brilliant PR guy and I'm not. Related: remember when everyone was hating on Nintendo for choosing the name "wii"? Between this and Nintendo's own smart "wii would like to play" tagline, I've come to really like it.

Second it's just another good example of Wii as cultural phenomenon; Jupiter's in the midst of revising our console games forecast for the year; I don't think it's giving anything away to say that last year, based on the best available data and expectations, we undershot on Wii sales; look for an upcoming report in our games service to fix that.