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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - M. Pachter: 'Nintendo's new console needs GTA, Call of Duty and FIFA to avoid Wii U disaster'

Nintendo needs to minimize game droughts and delayed releases for their next console. Third-party support from COD, GTA, and FIFA won't be a selling point for a Nintendo console, but they will help reduce waiting time between Nintendo developed/published titles.



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AbbathTheGrim said:

- Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said some things

Why should we care what he has to say?

 

Incidentally, Wii U had both Call of Duty and Fifa at launch. It's not GTA, CoD, or Fifa that it'll need, it's quality titles from third parties. In other words, third parties need to actually put the effort in, rather than just dialling it in, and then expecting mega-sales or stop supporting the system. If they release a title on the next platform that is, in terms of features and functionality, inferior to the other versions, then they're not serious about the system, and don't deserve sales.



I agree on FiFA (well, basically the whole EA Sports titles, really), but not so much on CoD and really not on GTA. Sports titles sell on every console, but the audience of CoD and GTA really isn't on Nintendo consoles. Especially not in GTA's case, whose only Nintendo port is also their only flop.

But all this talk is pretty moot until we see what NX really is



Nintendo needs final fantasy and kingdom hearts



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atomicblue said:

Oh god, not this hack again.

Also, GameCube got all of those games except for FIFA and still sold worse than everything else that gen. Wii missed a ton of those things and outsold PS3 and 360. The answer is nowhere near as simple as he likes to try and make things.

It sold better than the Wii U tho.


That's a bit of a short-sighted rebuttal. There were a lot of other things that were different back in the early 2000s and the market as a whole was bigger.

In terms of market share, the GameCube is still Nintendo's least successful console, accounting for not much more than 10% of home console sales. Wii U may eventually replace it, but at the moment its market share is still somewhere close to double that.



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atomicblue said:

Perhaps if the things Pachter said weren't so routinely ridiculous, the discussion would be of a higher caliber. That sort of animosity doesn't normally come up around soundbytes from other people in the industry, which suggests the problem is mostly Pachter, not people on forums.


They aren't though. They are just unpopular. Looking at some of the predictions the people who criticize him are making, they'd fare far worse than he does.



The things I've heard from Pachter over the last couple of months or so have been generally right, this included. That's of course not because he's provided any divine insight, but rather because he's decided to start stating the obvious.



They need fifa to succeed in Europe and CoD for WW, but GTA is a big series but Nintendo doesn't need it.



Nintendo hasn't needed FIFA and GTA on Wii and never needed them on handhelds, and beacuse at time they didn't compete directly with MS and Sony with those consoles. I think it's more correct to say they need GTA and FIFA if they want to compete directly with MS and Sony.



Captain Obvious: The more games the better, anything else would make it a weakness.