Master analyst, Michael Pachter, predicts that Switch will not sell near Wii.

[Alby_da_Wolf]

RolStoppable said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

As he hasn't been fired yet, it's very likely that he gives the right professional advices to investors that pay his company fees for his services.
Updating his predictions is part of his job, anyway.
Maybe, besides giving paying investors the right advices, he deliberately adorns them with outlandish analyses, so that not paying public can't use them and his clients themselves neither, if they stop paying him to have the conclusions.

Maybe. It's certainly possible that his paid analyses are reasonable while in public he acts like a clown.

But I prefer the theory that he keeps his job because numerous big third party publishers pay him to write Nintendo off and then they show these "professional" analyses to their own investors in order to justify not developing any games for Nintendo. It's quite common that the advice Pachter proposes to console manufacturers mirrors what third parties want.

LOL, this is twisted, and I wouldn't ascribe such mind-set to most third parties. To EA yes, their management is a bunch of weirdos, and without all those overmilked sports licenses they'd have long sunk.