"Market analysts had little hard data at the beginning of the generation, now that there is much more information out there, they have the advantage"
I was preparing a much more longer post but this sentence really put me out !
We are talking business here, please...
What is the purpose of market analysts ? It is to predict future. What are their real clients expecting from them ? They PAY them to give them an insight on the directions the industry will go to put money in it. Present is of no interest to them.
May i also say that explaining present is not difficult ?
On Topic : Nintendo will generate (probably) tens of billions $ of profit during DS / Wii era. In the meantime, Sony and Microsoft will have major difficulties just to balance ! I agree with Mal' on the fact that from a business standpoint there is something worthy to analyse, something that goes a little further that the current "non-view" of so-called analyst. I find really amusing the comparisons between "industry insiders" (Patcher first) and Malstrom ... Some of them try to correlate value to appeal, others deal with currency fluctuation and new SKUs ...
