Pachter: Nintendo made Wii U Pro Controller to secure Call Of Duty

[sethnintendo]

Viper1 said:

sperrico87 said:
Pachter's not giving us any information we don't already have. Nintendo was pretty plainly spoken at E3 about how the Pro controller is for more traditional third party games like shooters. I don't understand what the point is to all this discussion?

The problem is his assumption on why it was developed.  Certainly Nintendo developed the Pro Controller (as well as the Wii's Classic Controller Pro) with the intention of offering 3rd parties and consumers a more tradiaional game controller.  The problem is Pachter is speculating that Activision directly told Nintendo to develop a Pro styled controller or they would withhold CoD from release on Wii U.

He was just trying out his newly founded telepathic powers. 

"Activision never said anything to me, but I know that [for] big games like Call Of Duty they said, 'No, we're not putting it on there if you don't give us a conventional controller'. So they gave in."