Pachter is just covering his butt because his credibility when it comes to Nintendo is shot. Some people have suggested he purposely says this crap to throw people off while the people paying him for analysis get the real info. I don't buy that, I think he genuinely is out of touch with Nintendo, he's stuck in the old graphic's race and is thinking the old way.
WiiU is no more WiiHD then Wii was GCN/withWiimote, backwards computability does not mean the system is the same. The controller itself shows that this is a unique new platform. Also the fact that games will still use the Wiimote, oh wow then it must be WiiHD wait a second PS2 could use PSOne controllers and PS3 controller look identical to PS2 controllers. The 360 controller is a smaller cordless version of the X-Box controller.
So Mr.Pachter WiiU is as much a new console as PS2 was or PS3 was or SNES was. There is no denying that it is new hardware and that HD is included but not the defining feature. In fact we still don't know how close the WiiU will be powered to the competitors consoles. In fact it could have more under the hood then we think and be a true competitor next gen.
Face it Pachter you are three years late and totally wrong. You predicted a WiiHD three years ago, a new console comes out now and you call it WiiHD which is wrong!
Seriously Mr.Pachter is a smart analyst and he understands Microsoft and Sony a lot. However he is not smart when it comes to Nintendo, he doesn't understand the company. In fact Pachter himself said many times he does not understand Nintendo. So if you don't understand Nintendo stop giving analysis about it, because your always wrong!
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
