| gergroy said: He's a real analyst that works for a pretty prestigious firm. There isn't any reason to ban his quotes. He isn't right all the time, but any time you are trying to predict the future you are bound to be wrong some of the time. |
The thing is, he's wrong far more often than he's right, and never admits to errors.
Tell me - does a world-class chef offer their best food for free as a regular event? Does a musician wanting to sell CDs give their CDs away for free to 99% of the public? Does an ad-supported commercial TV channel provide easy access to an ad-free free-to-air stream of their content?
Pachter may be a skilled analyst. It's entirely possible. But the fact that he's releasing these claims publicly for free when his job is to provide analyses to businesses tells me that what he's saying publicly has no real value. If we assume that his public statements aren't actually PR (the alternative is that he's being paid by a company in the gaming industry to say these things), then his only reason for saying what he says publicly is attention - the more attention the claims get, the more money he gets from advertising, etc.
Think of Pachter's public comments as moonlighting - he makes more money from comments that would be worthless in his normal job. So there's two options: either he's providing FUD for the purpose of PR for a company (likely Activision or EA, if it's anyone), or he's providing grandiose claims in order to gain publicity. Either way, his statements aren't worth anything.
