| CaptainExplosion said: Isn't it obvious? He never says anything nice about Nintendo, acts like he wants them to fail, tries to pressure them into business decisions that might actually hurt them, and yet we don't hear about him hating on either Xbox or PlayStation. Michael Pachter just hates Nintendo, plain and simple. |
The sky is blue.
Sorry, I thought this was a "state the obvious" thread.
Actually, that's not fair. It's not strictly that he hates Nintendo. He probably has no personal feelings at all regarding Nintendo. But whoever pays him for his PR services view Nintendo as a threat. Remember, while he may be employed as an analyst at Wedbush, anything he says publicly should be taken as PR and not analysis, because any analysis that is of value would be given to those who pay him and the company, not released publicly for free. So if he makes any sort of "analysis" public, it's not real analysis, it's something he's being paid to say.
This is why, at various times, he's also massively criticised both Microsoft and Sony, but only when their positions on something are against the third parties. It's always about how, if they want to do better, they need to lower the price of the hardware, even if that lowering would result in lower net profit for the company.
I'm not sure which company (or possibly companies) are paying for his PR services, but I'm confident it's a third party publisher.
