shame for him!!!!

Yeah, it might not be a next generation console but it has to be the best console of this generation, doesn't it? Huh, Pachter?

That's a dutch word for "home"! Wait, am I reading this right... :S

Now that's confusing, if that was his aim, he might nailed it! :D

Generations are dicated by the company launching the product not some washed up analyst who everyone ridicules.

Nex-Box and PS4 will both be more powerful then PS3/360 and I would consider it significantly more powerful. I mean everything we know indicates the WiiU will be around 5x the power of PS3. Microsoft and Sony will both go for affordable hardware this time round because they want to actually profit. A new Kinect device is likely going to come bundled with the Nex-Box so don't expect Microsoft to really give us a power house this upcoming gen. Microsoft has seen where Nintendo has set the bar and they will ensure their hardware is competitively priced and powered. Sony might again have the most powerful system because they don't have to worry about an expensive control device like a camera or touch pad, unless they unveil a new control device. This means Sony can launch a competitive device with more power at the same cost as Microsoft and Nintendo's offerings. I'd expect Nintendo's console to price at 300-350$ and Nex-Box/PS4 at about 400$.

The point in launching next generation hardware without the huge leap we saw between PS2/PS3 is that the new hardware will offer new experiences and will be more powerful then the last generation. The new hardware will run games in 1080p a major selling feature for everyone with 1080p tv's. The controls will all be improved or revolutionized giving us new game experiences.

This will truly be a new generation even if all the consoles are on par with WiiU.

Well this depends. If Nintendo launches WiiU then five years later launches its next system alongside Nex-Box , PS4 then yah they missed the generation. I mean would you consider all four consoles the same generation even though two are from the same company launched 5 years apart and are completely different systems?

The way I understand console generations is the cycle of say around 5 years in which the major companies launch their hardware all hardware launched during that time is one generation. But if a company launches a new console it is a new generation and if the other companies never released hardware during the last generation then effectively they missed it.

With the rumored Wii U specs, it's much more powerful than that. It's actually closer to probably 200-400% more powerful.

Ram - 512mb (360); 2-4GB (Wii U)
GPU - shared w ram (360); 1-2GB (Wii U)
CPU - 3 core PPC (360); 4-8 core POWER7 (Wii U - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER7)
Optical Media - 7GB DVD-9 (360); 25GB disc (Wii U)

They will be signifigantly more powerful than their predecessors, but not the Wii U.

The point is, when a console is released after this generation it's next-gen until it comes out, then becomes new-gen.

Patcher, i guess, means only in terms of hardware, but it's like forgotting that Nintendo is known form making gameplay revolutions.

So fail for him on full line.

haha, at least he is really good at what he does... Been wrong...

I think this says it. Pachter says a lot of things that turn out to be wrong.  He is less accurate than a local TV weather forecaster.

Mike from Morgantown

(Analysis have shown that Pacther is right about half the time)