Pachter: "Nintendo Is A Bad Company With A Poor CEO"

[Mazty]

I agree that Ninty are a bad company with a poor CEO because of their lack of foresight.

Let's look at the wii. That shows foresight right? Yes, but what happened was that core gamers left Nintendo and have moved to either Sony or MS. Now in the past this wasn't an issue but nowadays with so much online play, just like WoW, people don't want to leave something they've invested time in - I'm talking about friends lists and trophies, as well as franchises.

Now Nintendo should have seen this coming and released an absolute power house (like the PS4) back in October instead of the Wii U, while subsidising it more than they currently are. This way it would have lured core gamers back to the Nintendo badge. Expecting casual gamers to come back to the Nintendo badge was a complete failure to understand the market. Those gamers flitter from one gadget to the next - unless you're the "cool" item, they will ignore you - Zynga are a victim of this as well.

Therefore releasing the Wii U, so far, shows to have been a complete misunderstanding of the market and may cost Ninty dearly.