| danielrdp said: OK. I know I should just ignore him, but I can't. How come he gets paid to make comments like this. |
Because the job was open and nobody took it. It is true he is much wrong but that is not rare on the internet you can find some old crazy predictions thread. The thing is if someone predict something and end up right the thread will mostly get necrobumped and if Pachter was you will not see a thread getting bumped up. When Ms announced they will sell retail games digitally he said it is not going to be a massive succes and the attach rate barely will be 20% in ten years.
In retrospect it is nice to watch old silly predictions like the Wii well barely sell 10 million (mind you most gamers on forums expected that it will have a hard time beating the game cube LTD sales). On Vghcartz we had a guy with a Panda avatar who expected that Kinect would sell more than 20 million...he was basically the only one who expected it and I think he was called the pachter of Vgchartz because he is going to be so wrong....
A good question is why we don't have more people getting paid for predictions? Maybe because it is a hard job with people who would laugh with old predictions?
honestly I don't know what to predict about Pokemon Go..I can see it being still crazy popular in a year but at the same time I would also not be surprised that in 3 months the number of players is 10% of what it is today...
