It could be. But there's an even more likely explanation: he's Teh Almighty Analyst God, blessed be His Holy Name, he can be Teh King o' Trolls too in his spare time.     

I thought that too, but SSB and Pokemon + the Holidays (which always boosts Nintendo insanely), I'm not sure anymore. I'll be happy if they have 15 million, but if they have 20 or 25 that would be amazing.

Yep, which would make his "miss the 20M by a mile" not match this 8M in USA. But thanks for the breakdown. Wouldn't say the break is similar to PS4, but it's clear that it have reached a good distribution in all major market, and perhaps after price going down RotW will increase participation.

This is one thing that is very strange to me, if Nintendo was expecting most of the sales of Labo on holidays why release so much earlier and even using a lot of shelf space for it?

DO they think the time in display will do more marketing and drive sales on Xmas than being a new release?

I know he is fluent in BS, but do you think his english is this bad? =p

He can hate pokemon and this one could even be the very worst game ever. But considering the average release of Pokemon and how much the intended costumers of it like the game, there is 0 reason to expect the game to do bad.

Yeah, exactly. Pokemon does sell, only because it is Pokemon. That's a rule, and it's the same for FIFA and COD. Maybe Gamefreak can ruin the franchise, but as big as the fanbase is currently, they'll need years to destroy the IP. So however bad this game turns out to be, it will sell and it will move Switches.

Errrm.... how is this guy still relevant?

Because we know that when he says one thing, the exact opposite will happen. Pachter is like a compass that shows you where the south pole is instead of north pole

It's just me or the Mods are on fire???

And even their console outputs on Pokemon were at least decent and sold well like Snap or Stadium. And I know I have friends that didn't buy any Nintendo portable even loving Pokemon (because they only thought of pokemon being worth) that are considering buying or have bought Switch just because there were a chance of Pokemon classic style coming to it. So when it really happens I can see massive sales of Switch on Pokemon release (even if not a proper next gen pokemon).

Sure we can't be sure 20M will be achieved (I think 17-18M is more conservative prediction), but Pokemon will do great and I think it will probably be very good (and if it isn't I trust they will take lessons learned to either patch since in Switch that is a reality or make the next one better).

They are doing their good work as usual. Some threads attract more attention and have more things breaking rules than others.

Hes "decent" when it comes to stock around software, mostly american game companies, from what I gather.
Everything else.... meh.

Hes good at getting attention from his sometimes outlandish claims (its like he trolls for attention).
Though this means, hes gotten a rep where its like "The oppersite will be true" (of whatever he said).

Nah, it's just you. Our posts were totally ban-worthy.