Pachter On Next-Gen. NeXbox and Sony will be a success, WiiU crappy product

[DanneSandin]

RolStoppable said:

DanneSandin said:
I don't understand all the hate he's getting from Nintendo fans... It's time to wake up and smell the disaster that is the Wii U, and I'm a Nintendo fan myself, mind you. It's not going too well, and this is what Pachter sees and this is what he's basing his arguments on. I do believe it'll start to sell well as soon as they release some solid 1st party games (as evident by the bump the Wii U sales got by Lego City and MH3U), but that hasn't happened yet. And to think that Mario Kart or 3D Mario or Zelda is gonna sell 50m is just stupid. That's not gonna happen. This is a new GC or N64, and as a gamer, that's not bad at all! GC and N64 gave us some fantastic games! BUT as a company, that's not what Nintendo wants or needs, and that's not what will get investors to invest. So stop the needless hate and try to see the big picture for once. I'm tired of all the bashing Pachter gets around here. Sometimes he's way out of line, saying stupid ass shit things, but the last two threads I've seen about him he's been very reasonable, and the Nintendo fans being Unreasonable!!

Pachter said that the Wii U is two years too late. This implies that the Wii U could have succeeded, if only the timing was right. The only reason why Pachter says this is because he views Wii U as the Wii HD he always suggested. Basically, if Nintendo had listened to Pachter and released the Wii HD in 2009 or 2010, then the company would be in great shape.

It's clear that Nintendo isn't doing well, but had they listened to Pachter, they would be off even worse today.

That doesn't change the fact that what Pachter is observing now with Nintendo is any less right. His observations are right regarding Nintendo at their current state. He says 3DS will probably continue to sell around 15m a year, which seems reasonable enough, and that Wii U isn't doing to well, which it isn't.

And I can understand why Pachter thinks the Wii U is 2 years too late; had it come out in 2010 the whole tablet controller would still be new, and Nintendo would have caught up with MSony with regards to online services, and it would have been graphically on par with the PS360. Now, it's too little too late. I'm not saying that Pachter is right in thinking this, but I can see why he is thinking like that.

From a business point of view Wii U will not do as well as Wii, and will probably struggle to keep up with PS720 - and therefore it will be a bad investment to invest in, and it's this that Pachter is talking about. Is he wrong? Tell me truthfully, without side tracking about Pachter's thought on Wii HD and such; is Nintendo a good investment right now, and do you see it changing withing the short term? And this will probably be the biggest year for the 3DS with Pokémon and AC:NL releasing in the west, but after this year it'll probably decline in sales - perhaps not by much, but this year (or the next one) will be the high point of the 3DS, and the Western market haven't even caught on yet. Do you see Nintendo's fortune's improving here on?