Most of the stories and quotes that come up is because Pachter is one of two primary analysts that look at the game industry.  As such, the gaming journalist are always asking for his opinion on what he thinks of something.  Now, Pachter is not a gamer, he is an analyst, so a lot of what he says is pretty condesending which seems to upset a lot of gamers.  

He says stuff like Call of Duty's story sucks, and Nintendo is failing.  However, people don't seem to understand that isn't saying Nintendo isn't delivering a great gaming experience, he is talking about Nintendo's ability to provide profits.  Sony and Microsoft are large companies that have a lot of things going for them besides games.  Nintendo is just games, as such the emergence of smartphones and mobile gaming will have a much bigger impact on their profit performance than the other two companies.  

These statements then get taken and put in articles, often out of context, and it pisses off gamers.  My point is that Pachter isn't talking to gamers, his work involves previewing stock performance of game companies.  He isn't right all the time, he is often wrong, but that doesn't mean we need to ban his comments.  How many people on this site make bad predictions all the time?  Should we ban people that make bad preditions now?  His comments create discussion, that is the point of these forums, to discuss. 

Also, Pachter does admit all the time when he is wrong, and definitely admits errors, those apoligies aren't gaming news though...

Personally, I like Jesse Divinich better, but I'll still look at what Pachter says. 

If you guys want to understand Pachter a little better, here is a link to an interview he did way back when.  It probably won't make you like him any better, as he is pretty condescending towards games, but you will better understand that he is mostly just focused on how the companies and products perform, rather than how they play.  

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/being-michael-pachter-interview

That's not true, really.  He craps on more than just them.  However, I think the idea that he talks crap about certain companies just for attention may be correct based  on this part of the interview

Eurogamer: Do you ever get it completely wrong?

Michael Pachter: All the time. All the time. But who cares? I'm glad you asked that question. It's not my job to induce investors to do something, to compel them to action. That's not my job. My job is to make them better informed so they can make better-informed decisions. It would be naive of me and extremely arrogant of me to believe that I'm the only person that they would ever speak to and I'm the only source of data they would ever have.

Perhaps. The people who seem to hate him the most on this site seem to me to be nintendo guys.

I dont really seem what you mean that he just wants attention - what he is saying is what I have heard about his job and of course the investors will have more than 1 source of information. 

The thing is that he says things such as that Nintendo fans would buy a box with the word "Nintendo" on it and not even care.  He was bashing the Nintendo fanbase as being those who would buy anything Nintendo releases, even if it's complete garbage.  I haven't really known about him until I started reading up about the 3DS, where he made lots of unnecessarily harsh remarks that ended up being not true at all.  He knows he's wrong all the time, so I think he takes advantage of this fact to make outlandish statements about something smaller he believes.  This way more people talk about it.  

In that interview, he said he pissed off Sony for implying that they are ripping off their consumers.  He said he did apologize, but it still doesn't ammend the fact that he is doing this on a regular basis.

Meh. Dont really know if he is an attention-seeker or not. Personally I am never bothered by what he is saying about sony but then they arent in his headlights as much as nintendo.