Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter has said on record that Nintendo is too late with their newest console Wii U. Concidering Pachter is mostly wrong all the time, and usually the opposite will happen. This must be great news for Nintendo.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20070803-17/analyst-wii-u-is-two-years-too-late/

Actually, he said they're too late to catch the HD wave, but that the Wii U will also be very successful anyway. So they're not too late, but they'll still fail just the same.

I think he might be right.

The Wii U will do well until the Xbox 720 and PS4. Then it will die like the Dreamcast.

Yup... it's frankly too early... for both a reveal and a release.

well, this means this system is going to sell out in its first week and be a resounding success

As much as I like to say "eat the crap you just spat out, Patch", he could be right about this one.., if Nintendo went out with just a rehash of an HD Wii, wich they're doing more than that.

I shall hold out on my response until I see the WiiU's result and that we'll have to wait 'till next year...
And if Patcher actually be right on this, I'll piss on my words and eat it.

To me, what he is saying is: "ok, there already exist two HD machines on the market who had all the impact to themselves. Now, with Wii U, Nintendo will fail to impress gamers in general because HD has already been done."
This is true. But now, it`s only one side of things, because PS4 and Xbox 720 will still be in HD with better graphics. So, in a sense, if HD won`t work for Wii U, it won´t work for Sony and Microsoft`s new consoles as it did with Xbox 360 and PS3.

Will they be that much powerful to still impress? No one knows. Personally i think they won`t. I see it, as many have pointed out, as PS2>GC>Xbox.

About Nintendo Wii U`s power, i read in an article where some devs think that it will have 50% more processing power than PS3 and Xbox 360 - http://www.industrygamers.com/news/wii-u-is-actually-50-more-powerful-than-ps3---report/

Pachter`s mistake continues to be that "power" sells consoles. PS2 and Wii weren`t the best and just look at their sales.

"Pachter says he believes Microsoft and Sony will continue to reduce the price of their consoles going forward, and if the Wii U is too expensive compared with those alternatives, it could be in for trouble."
That didn`t stop both PS2 and PS1 to be generation leaders despite having cheaper consoles on the market when they arrived.

he is dumb

yes he is correct if the Wii U was ONLY an HD wii

but its not just an hd wii, it has that new controller.


if ps4 and 720 just release with more powerful machines then same should be said about them. as pointed out by many, the graphics are really good right now. you aren't going to get 100's of millions of poeple wanting to upgrade to a ps4 on just slightly better visuals. its needs something fresh and new.

nintendo is betting thier controller is going to be that fresh and new thing.  Now what will microsoft and sony do for their FRESH and NEW thing?

That's one scenario.

Another is that the Xbox 1080 and PS4 mostly receive ports of Wii U games because Nintendo already has a dominant position on the market like the PS2...

Chances are you won't see a Dreamcast or a PS2 performance, but one where Nintendo does remarkably well and introduces a new way of playing via their new controller.

the thing is people think the Wii U is here to compete with PS360, they think it is a current gen console and not a next gen one :P

why do some people still say next gen to current gen? i read one site that said next, mext gen console even though he was talking about this gen and Nintendo's upcoming next gen console