Michael Pachter Responds! Thoughts on the Wii Vitality Sensor

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gum said:

woopah said:

gum said:

woopah said:

Thats exactly the misconception i'm trying to get rid of. Pachter is a STOCK analyst. he is paid to predict and advise investment comapnies into what video game company stocks to invest in. He is not paid to send emails to internet blogs and im pretty sure he isn't paid to appear on game trailers either. As you said, you are a guy with an opinion, so is Pachter and so am I. he doesnt have any more knowledge about the VS than we do so we can take his prediction for what it is, the thoughts of a guy who knows a lot about the industry. but then so do a lot of forum goers.  We need to get rid of the whole 'why are people paying him to say stuff that I already know' because they arn't and 'pachter is a HD fanboy/wii troll' because he isn't

Well if he is always wrong about what games or systems are going to succeed or not how in hell could he "advised investment companies into what video game company stocks to invest in"?

 

Is he always wrong? he was pretty negative down about nintendo's performance last year so he probably didn't advise companies to invest in it. And that has turned out to be great advice since Nintendo's stock didn't do too well. he also correctly predicted the wii price cut. 

Like it has already been said, except obvious statements yes he is almost always wrong. How can a guy that didn't see the huge success of the wii coming could give any advice about this market. Perhaps I'm wrong but it seems obvious for me that to give good advices about where you should invest your money on, you have to make good predictions, to understand what will happen even if that's not a given because otherwise who needs any advice at all? If a guy like this is not able to predict better than anybody else what will happen I don't understand why anybody should think that he's more able than anybody else to give better advices for stock investments.

 

 

because they are vastly different things. Predicting if a wii HD should come out is not the same as predicting at what level Nintendo's stock will be at in 2 years. taking this VS debate for example, would you be that confident in VS that you would invest millions of dollars into nintendo stock? VS is an unknown, with what we've been shown we cant say that the VS will help or hinder nintendo's earnings. whereas Pachter clearly feels that Natal will be successful enough to improve microsoft's financial position. Unless you can get a list of Pachter's stock preidctions and produce some analysis on how close he was we have absoloutely no idea how good of an analyst Pachter is