Play Magazine: Nintendo has officially gone off the reservation

[konnichiwa]

RolStoppable said:

Legend11 said:

Maybe I'm wrong but the link you posted was for analysts and not for videogame magazine Editor In Chiefs. Also many of those analysts are likely not into videogames at all and have never attended any company's Gamer's Day or know many people behind the scenes when it comes to videogames. Also to simply jump from one group of people and infer that it applies to another is a weak argument at best.

The link was for analysts indeed.

I guess you know Pachter, he is probably the most popular analyst for the videogame business and he is often quite far off with his predictions (also about the outcome of this generation) even though he follows this industry since years.

The point of my argument was that people who are paid to pay attention to the market and its trends (be it analysts or journalists) can be off with their assumptions. Just because it is their job to write about the videogame market doesn't neccessarly mean that they are right. Journalists often tend to repeat what analysts have preached, so it's not that the case that there is no relation between those two groups.

Just out of interest: Why do you criticize my argument as being weak, but totally ignore konnichiwa's argument in the same quote which is without a doubt far weaker than mine?

 Maybe he understand mine who knows. Journalist almost never repeat the words of analysts.
I can remember when everybody said (anaylysts) PS2 is to expensive, not many games it will not sell 40 million, look now!  Many editors of viedeo gaming magazines were against those analysts and they were right about it; And to answer your question about will PS3 sell 110 million,  Why not?

The market of people who play games grows and more people can afford consoles.

Even this can be possible:   Wii 180 million, PS3 and X360 more than 110 million.