Michael Pachter slams Wii U sales forecast

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Slimebeast said:

Vinniegambini said:

(http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/10/nintendo-financial-results/)

Michael Pachter, up until recently believed that the Nintendo launch was looking quite well. That all changed today as Pachter claims that both the sales of the hardware and software Wii U of 5.5 million and 24 million (4 games per console sold - incl. bundle), is unrealistically high. Furthermore, he believes that the current path of the Wii U is dissapointing.

What do you guys think? Is he right or is he trolling again?

 

That sentence is not correct. Actually Pachter was disappointed that Nintendo's forecast on HW was so low at 5.5 million Wii U's. Pachter had expected 6-7 million.

Exactly what I was thinking.  I even reread that part twice because I thought I'd misunderstood.  His criticism is that Nintendo is setting the bar too low on hardware and too high on software.

I don't know about the hardware, but that attachment rate does seem high.  Four games per person on a new console would be a lot of money.