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Pachter doesn't know priorities!

Heresy! Pachter is God! 11 12.64%
 
Even a god may be wrong sometimes... 5 5.75%
 
Pachter is a demigod 3 3.45%
 
Pachter has priorities mo... 12 13.79%
 
Pachter is my dad 4 4.60%
 
Pachter is my cat 52 59.77%
 
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Khuutra on 31 January 2011
Darth Tigris said:
Khuutra said:

Hm

No, not at all, particularly not for the systems with Nintendo games.

Nintendo games aren't the reason why the Wii is as popular as it is.  The N64 and GC were home to a better library of Nintendo games than the Wii but didn't sell near as well.

That's just not true. Wii Sports carried this system for about 30 million units by itself.

And frankly, the Wii's library is both better and better-selling than its predecessors when it comes to Nintendo games.

Nintendo games were what drove the Wii and the DS. You can't blame it on anything but the games - certainly not the operating system and related services.



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silicon on 31 January 2011

Whose priorities?


*sigh hypocrisy...



Slimebeast on 31 January 2011

Now I hope Wii 2 fails just for the lulz.



axt113 on 31 January 2011

He's just Butthurt about the lack of WiiHD



Rumors indicate that it is planning on following the first approach, sticking a new, motion-sensitive controller onto an existing console. Our perspective is that this is the worst of the three options.

-Clayton Christensen back in 2007 already knew Move would be a bad idea

axt113 on 31 January 2011
Slimebeast said:

Now I hope Wii 2 fails just for the lulz.


More lulz if it succeeeds and we get to see all the haters heads explode for another gen



Rumors indicate that it is planning on following the first approach, sticking a new, motion-sensitive controller onto an existing console. Our perspective is that this is the worst of the three options.

-Clayton Christensen back in 2007 already knew Move would be a bad idea

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axt113 on 31 January 2011
Darth Tigris said:
Khuutra said:
Squilliam said:
Khuutra said:

I think the majority of disagreement with Mr. Pachter will come as a result of the idea that it's not hardware features the make a platform unique or successful, it's games.

Games yes but since a lot of software is multiplatform truthfully the most unique thing about each platform is actually the operating system and the associated services.

Hm

No, not at all, particularly not for the systems with Nintendo games.


Nintendo games aren't the reason why the Wii is as popular as it is.  The N64 and GC were home to a better library of Nintendo games than the Wii but didn't sell near as well.


Wii sports/Wii fit



Rumors indicate that it is planning on following the first approach, sticking a new, motion-sensitive controller onto an existing console. Our perspective is that this is the worst of the three options.

-Clayton Christensen back in 2007 already knew Move would be a bad idea

Slimebeast on 31 January 2011
axt113 said:
Slimebeast said:

Now I hope Wii 2 fails just for the lulz.


More lulz if it succeeeds and we get to see all the haters heads explode for another gen

I guess...



Slimebeast on 31 January 2011
RolStoppable said:
Slimebeast said:

Now I hope Wii 2 fails just for the lulz.

And I hope that Skyrim will be released as a buggy mess.

...

Oh wait, it's a Bethesda game. No reason to hope for something, if it is a given.

Yeah yeah, but no matter how many bugs it's the favorite for GOTY.  I think you're aware of that.

Only on HD.



gum on 31 January 2011

Move was Wii HD and we have all seen how well it helps the PS3 to sell this holiday with some atrocious numbers especially in the US. That is the definitive proof that the Wii HD was a terrible idea to begin with, that Nintendo has been right all this time and that Pachter is just an incompetent clown without any understanding of this market, period. Sadly there is nothing more to say, the guy can't learn from the past and just doesn't understand the casual market at all, quite pathetic really...



Tecmo on 31 January 2011
Squilliam said:

He didn't say it'd fail, he said it'd fail to sell more than the Wii. In respect to both the Wii and DS and their 3DS and Wii 2 counter-parts it isn't too unsafe to say that they may sell less than their previous incarnations. The Wii is selling more than 100M consoles LTD, and the DS will sell well over 160M.

Since we know that the 3DS is essentially a DS2 plus 3D and is coming into more handheld competition than the DS ever faced from the likes of Apple and it doesn't seem to hold any revolutionary new values to the same extent the DS had over the GBA and whilst the Wii 2 is still unknown at this point the majority of what made Wii new and innovative has now been incorporated into competing consoles.


Agreed...it's not a huge stretch to just say that they will not outsell their predecessors. That would be a difficult task for any console or handheld.



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