Pachter: "Nintendo must stop living in the past"

[theRepublic]

theRepublic said:

Kynes said:
This guy must be a shill for some third party developers. All he wants is normalization, that all the consoles are the same, so third parties can easily port from one console to the others.

Yes, he is a shill for third parties.  He basically admitted to it with something he said a year or two ago.  There was a thread about it on this website that I know I posted in.  I might search for it later.

As for the discussion on the Wii U controller, it will be easy for third parties to use.  It is just a standard controller with a touch screen in the middle.  Third parties have no excuse.

I could not find the exact post I was looking for, since it happened back in early 2010.

The basics are:

• Pachter continously calls for price cuts to hardware so that more software can be sold.
• He said that publishers should be selling their games for more than $60 because they are worth more than that.
• He said that third parties should start charging mothly fees for online play.
• When EA started to charge buyers of used games to unlock content, he said that they should have made it more.

All that and more add up to the fact that everything Pachter says "should" happen to make the industry better in his eyes are all great things for third party publishers.