| Mystro-Sama said: Whats this guy's qualifications anyways? lol |
From what I've briefly seen, Pachter's comments regarding Nintendo are almost always negative, going way back to the Wii. Honestly if the NX was $199 he'd say it's too cheap and sends the perception of being a toy/kiddie console. If the NX was $299 and had $600 worth of hardware he'd say it has no 3rd party support and that Nintendo is stupid for losing billions on hardware. If the NX is $349-399 and has hit it out of the park in all areas, he'd say it's too expensive. If the NX meets all key criteria, he'll say something stupid like Nintendo caught a fluke with casuals again. I am basically convinced Pachter doesn't like Nintendo's consoles and never really did. I mean the Wii U's 3rd party support is abysmal, its hardware is abysmal but the console is stacked with a lot of solid 1st party games - a HECK of a lot better than PS4's line-up of exclusives. I don't even own the Wii U but Pachter just goes where the ad-revenue and research reports / investors are. Right now MS/Sony are popular and it makes sense he hypes up successful products since he is in the business to sell. That's what an equity research firm does -- sells research reports to investors for $$$. Therefore, Pachter himself doesn't need to love videogames at all -- he just needs to know all the current trends and make predictions that make $ for his corporate investors. Since he hasn't seen anything on the NX, it makes sense that he remains conservative instead of hyping the console since he doesn't want to sell wrong advice for investment purposes.
Here though, we are consumers/gamers, most of us are not investors. Therefore, his crazy theories about how the NX should cost $299 or else it's a fail are far removed from what gamers want. PS4 didn't have any issues moving consoles at $399 and if you are a PC gamer like me, the PS4 to this date has almost nothing worth playing, and yet sold almost 30M copies. What matters is not the price but the value or at least the perception of value you deliver. It's the same reason iPhone sells for $650 but has only $210-260 worth of components in it. You can have a 2016 NX console flying off the shelves if it cost $349-399 and at the same time you can have a console that costs $199-299 fail miserably. Pachter doesn't get this point because he isn't a true gamer at heart -- he just looks at price without taking into account value or the perception of value.
