That's about as profound and groundbreaking as saying, "The Xbox 360 is not a new console, it's Xbox HD." Or, "The PS3 is not a new console, it's PS2 HD." No shit sherlock.

Side note: And his tie ain't shit.

Well if you come on the showfloor and show the world that it can play the same games like on X360/PS3 then no wonder people believe it is Wii HD...

And Machina wondered why Nintendo fans are so quick to automatically impugn Pachter's character (a shot i recall from one of the Industry Icon threads)

This is why, this whole line of crap

Yea its Wii HD, but so were the other 2 of the previous gen consoles.

I think what he is trying to say though is that Wii U will have current gen HD graphics, not next gen HD+ graphics/functionality. Its not true next gen, its more of an enhanced current gen with the tablet controller. Atleast until specs of the other 2 upcoming consoles can be compared.

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Nope.  By your logic, then the PS3 is a PS2 with nothing more than HD and memory upgrades, oh and the piece of crap Sony calls Blu Ray.  Absolutely nothing different about it.

Wii U has tons of things different with it.  You're acting like backwards-compatibility is a bad thing, even when the console has something totally new.  Besides the entire company of Sony is made up of idiots.  That's why they lost over 2 billion over the PSN network hacking incident.

Oh, and Sony didn't make Blu Ray.  In fact it wasn't even made by an individual company. http://www.ehow.com/facts_5184273_created-blu_ray_.html

As usual Pachter's right. He always is, just ask him.

Lol I seriously hope I never meet this guy and have a discussion about games and consoles >_

Seriously, I'm beginning to think he says things like this just to get attention...

When this guy will learn the what defines a console is its software and not its hardware?

And by the way the market share "lost" has nothing to do with Kinect or Move. Wii doesn't sell like two years ago just because of the lack of first party games for it.