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Fireforgey on 14 January 2013
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
phenom08 said:
Lol the big guns haven't even been played yet. Wii U Sports, Mario Kart U, and Super Smash Bros. will send the WiiU well past 50 million lol.


We'll see. I think the casual swell is falling down and the gamers who truly care will buy the product. Pachter assessed the numbers and stated that the majority of Wii U owners currently are hardcore Nintendo fans. Is that far fetched? I think not. He says some offish things sometimes but I think hes spot on right now. He should just stick to what hes good at which is predictions based on analyzing the market. 


You seem to be forgetting something very important.  He once said (I forget which episode) that he has never understood Nintendo. 

I used to watch him regularly a while back when few people were talking about the Wii and the Wii U was mere rumor.  For that time I found very intelligent statements, well rounded answers and added to my knowledge of the industry.

Then......He started talking about Nintendo and the Wii U.  The man can't understand Nintendo for the life of him and has ALWAYS been wrong about that company.  He can't predict what they will do, he can't predict its effects, he can't predict the company's sales.

Nintendo does things in a very wierd way that no other company has been able to follow.  With the Gamecube the sold less than the Xbox and yet made a profit while the Xbox lost billions.  They went in a very wierd direction with the Wii when everyone else was in a technology arms race.  They had an incredibly successful system (the GBA) and yet they killed it early in favor of a dual screen handheld.

Despite defying all expectations and doing everything "wrong" they succeed.  They don't always come out on top, but they always succeed.  Wasn't the 3DS going to be killed by both Iphones AND the PSV?  What happened there?  Its the same thing over again, whenever a company does something peopel don't understand, they predict its demise.  Nintendo has never been understood, and so it has always been doomed.

There is one law in the vide game industry, never underestimate Nintendo.