Pachter had three choices:
1) Say MS won. There would be disagreement and talk, but nothing that would get him any special attention. MS is kind of like Switzerland: who cares.
2) Say Sony won. This would have caused a lot of buzz and gotten him a lot of attention, but he would have hordes of Nintendo fans on him along with MS fans with only a little support from Sony fans.
3) Say Nintendo won. He would have the nearly 10 million Nintendo fans on his side, the MS fans probably wouldn't care a lot because the Wii is another category, and there wouldn't be much from Sony fans because there aren't a lot of them (sorry, but true).
He clearly chose Nintendo since that would be the best for him, it doesn't really matter who did better when all three were so close. Pachter is a hack and you just really shouldn't listen to anything he says.
