Pachter doesn't know priorities!

[Squilliam]

mike_intellivision said:

Squilliam said:

He didn't say it'd fail, he said it'd fail to sell more than the Wii. In respect to both the Wii and DS and their 3DS and Wii 2 counter-parts it isn't too unsafe to say that they may sell less than their previous incarnations. The Wii is selling more than 100M consoles LTD, and the DS will sell well over 160M.

Since we know that the 3DS is essentially a DS2 plus 3D and is coming into more handheld competition than the DS ever faced from the likes of Apple and it doesn't seem to hold any revolutionary new values to the same extent the DS had over the GBA and whilst the Wii 2 is still unknown at this point the majority of what made Wii new and innovative has now been incorporated into competing consoles.

Direct quote from the article from Pachter: "So without third-party support, I think the Wii 2, if it's truly a revolutionary device, will fail."

I think he is saying that the Wii2 will fail, under the conditions that he puts forth (and that he sees as likely).

Of course, to Pachter, the future is as clear as mud.

 

Mike from Morgantown

However all Nintendo would truthfully have to do is bite the bullet and slap around a half billion to a billion dollars of development incentives down on the table and say 'go hard' to places like EA in exchange for exclusive content. It worked for Microsoft in the start of the generation and even if EA is still reeling from all their losses it is sort of a Godfather type deal that they could hardly say no to.

One thing I wonder about is if Nintendo is indeed releasing a new control scheme which is radically different then developers would have to have seen it by now in order to create innovative games. I don't see any real rumours coming out so thats a black mark against anything radically different on that front, Pachter was talking also in that context that the revolution would be again in the controls.