One last time before The Wii U launch! Pachter: Wii U A New Console Using Last-Gen Technology

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fedfed said:
Serious question... did he get anything right? If yes what?

who is he working for?

If I remember right, he was pretty close on predicting the sales of Modern Warfare 2.  A lot of people thought he was too high, but that game exploded.  I think that is about it though.

He works for Wedbush Morgan, a financial services and investment firm.  I can also pretty much guarantee that he is providing some type of services to at least one of the major third party developers.  He shills for them all the time.  As evidence, way back in 2008 (when the Wii was still flying off shelves) he said that Nintendo would launch a WiiHD in 2009.  He had no good reason for it, but it would have certainly been great from a third party perspective.  It would mean easy ports, and they could use that prediction as an excuse to hold off on making games for the Wii.  He also said that Sony should drop the price of the PS3 back when they were still taking a huge loss on each unit.  Who does that benefit?  Third parties.

And here we go again:

"To remedy Nintendo’s “predicament,” Pachter suggested that Nintendo should license its IPs to mobile game developers and put GameBoy and GameBoy Advance games on cell phones where it would reach hundreds of millions of people and possibly create a new target group to sell Nintendo hardware to. However, Pachter said that he thinks Nintendo is angry at the mobile market for what it is doing to their systems and too stubborn to go this route."

This is just a disguised version of the old, "Nintendo should go third party" arguement.  Third parties would love to have less consoles to support.  It would be much easier for them to make games if the amount of different hardware contracted.  Their audience would be less spread out.