So it comes out today that Pachter thinks that the Wii U only sold 150k in the US in November.  According to VG Charts that number is off by atleast a 100k, and most likely a few thousand more.   On top of that the Mario Wii U bundle is at Gamestops #2 best seller slot, All Wii U bundles (even skylanders) are sold out at Target.com,  Amazon has 3rd party bundles but for $40 over retail, and the Zelda WW bundles are now non-existent.   I am a business major at USF, and all business students are told that these so called "experts" are ussually just people who could'nt make real money doing anything else, but I am just wondering what he is going to say once the offical Wii U numbers come out for November, and expecially by the end of December.   I thought Reggie was crazy at 1st but the Wii U is going to outsell the PS4 and Xbone in December. Yes its partially due to a supply shortage, but regardless, between 3DS's massive sales and the Wii U picking up a ton of steam with only one new game out, anyone who really thinks that Nintendo is dead this generation is just kidding themselves.  People are knocking Nintendo on here for prioritizing Donkey Kong over Zelda and Metroid, but they already tried that with the Gamcube and it blew up in their face.  The bottom line is Pachter severly underestimated the brand power of Mario, expecially during Christmas time.

Patcher makes crazy predictions so it gets clicks.

do we have to have this thread every fucking time pachter says something negative about nintendo? really? just dig up any one of the billion other fucking threads that say the same thing. and OMG the guy is asked to make predictions and when he does we call him a fucking troll. geez.... if you dont agree with his prediction ignore it and make your own.

Well, you never know he might end up being right.

pachter who?

I actually like Pachter. Not because of his attitude or predictions but because he openly admits that he is not always right and that he doesn't have to be right in his job. Also his core job is not making predictions but giving "context" to topics. That's why he earns more in a month than you in a year.

He might be wrong on this one one but do you really think that his sources and experience are worse than what you researched in a few minutes on the internet?

I only made a new one because he actually put out real numbers for one.  Ussually the guy just speculates so later on he does'nt look like a bonehead.  It just really blew my mind that he said this in the last 2 days after pretty accuarate sites like VG Chartz already have data saying that he is way off.

He just throws shit against the wall to see what sticks.

i meant to say do we, not do you at the start of my sentence. i edited it. 

and VGC has been nowhere near accurate lately without the help of official data. 

I actually think that most people on here give better predictions then he does.   I am a business major at USF, and have looked at alot of Video Game Sales data and I have little doubt that this guy is a joke.   He may admit he is wrong, but video game trends and analysis are some of the easiest to look it in the entire economy.   His prediction that the 3DS would  fail because of smartphones was extremly off, but whats worse is that as a so called expert, he did'nt learn from his mistakes.  Now he is on the PS4 bandwagon, with little to back it up other than launch sale data.