My point was that Pachter's opinion was not universally shared.  This was a quick, sample of places with free ratings freely available.  You get what you pay for .... which is the same with all the free comments that Pachter has been giving out.

Mike from Morgantown

I would be carefull with AC numbers because I have noticed every year that it is one of the most heavilly discounted title every January.

Ubisoft moves a lot of units, but the question is at what price .

One month after the release some retailers had sales  offering the game at 50% of the release price. And I noticed the same thing last year with Brotherhood..

By comparisons, games like Skyrim or Batman Arkham City, were not discounted as much ( CoD MW3 wasn't either but that is expected, there is so much demand the title sells close to full price for a very long time)

Its hard to repeat the rabid success of the Wii. Doubtful it will happen again. Remember, Wii was IMPOSSIBLE to get for the first 18 months of its life, they were NOWHERE to be found in the US. I was actually able to turn a nice profit on several that I lucked into getting.

Will Wii U become the MUST HAVE gadget this holiday season? Hard to tell, Wii didnt really take off until very close to launch when it became apparent that it and PS3 would be impossible to find after launch day until after Christmas. Still, Nintendo is far from dead, or even in serious trouble. 3DS is selling well, and the expenditures that go into launching a console are once off, after launch they should start recooping costs fairly quickly. Give the Wii U a year and a Mario game and it will sell great.

They weren't impossible to find, just incredibly difficult.  I was lucky enough to get mine on launch day but my friends weren't so lucky.  Stores would receive very small shipments of units trickling in here and there, and people would be lined up outside before the store was even open that day.  One friend actually got his the week before Christmas of '06 by waiting outside of Best Buy the night before they opened the next day.  Unless you just happened to show up right when a shipment arrived, this was par for the course for that 18 months.

With the Playstation 2 here in the US, however, it was literally impossible to get one for months, as Sony unloaded their entire stock in the first 24 hours, with no more units available at all to ship/sell until they made more.

With WiiU, Nintendo may not have that absurd 18 months that the Wii enjoyed, but we will undoubtedly see a similar situation this holiday.  The insane demand is certainly possible throughout next year, but is dependent on two main things:  The right price ($299-$349 would do it), and, most importantly, Nintendo having the right games to make the craze happen.

Well the AC 1 numbers are right there, the game sold that much prior to the HD boom, it was a new IP and it wasnt even that GOOD and it still did gangbusters.  YOu think that an AC game for WIi could reach 4-5 mil?? No, hell no. COD is a MUCH more popular franchise. and the COD games cant even crack the 2 million mark on WIi despite the bigger install base.  Keep in mind that the COD games on WIi are 90 percent identical to the HD version. An AC game wouldnt be so lucky since those are much more demanding on the PS360 hardware than any of the COD games.  Best case scenerio you'll get a AC Bloodlines scenario. A simple ok game that could push about 1.5 mil lifetime maybe and hell IMHO I dont even think it would do that much.  Hell MOH Heroes 2 sold better on PSP than on WIi by alot, a freaking portable FPS sold better than its CONSOLE version, by a lot. DOnt know how that happened

Well I actually checked the numbers, and AC (1) sold roughly 75+% of its total sales within 60 weeks, so prior to HD boom. That's roughly 7.3+M total, in line with Just Dance Wii, and clearly above potential AC Wii sales.

As for AC not selling 5M on Wii and comparing it to a port of an HD game, now you're completely disregarding what we had talked about earlier, a game with SD visuals that compensates for graphical disparity with other more important features like story and art direction (so long as graphics aren't broken). With that in mind, I don't see why a top-tier exclusive couldn't reach 5M, and even grow towards 8M as consumers realize the Wii is the goto platform for all your gaming needs, at a highly reduced development cost.

As for Medal of Honor, I have no idea how to explain that one. 

To be fair AC1 sold that much because it was something new, the graphics were kick ass at the time and the marketing campaign was great.
But the game was kind of repetitive and there wasn't that much to do in the game...
So maybe what you are arguing would have worked for another game but in my view AC1 is a really bad example.

The game sold on graphics and a marketing campaign based on in game footage. And these are the two points that would have been severely different on the Wii..

You infidel!!!   

To be honest, it's hard to find a PS360 game made by a company which sold as much of a casual game on the Wii, even less while being a game that wasn't sold primarily on graphics. Would that disparity strengthen my point?

@Alby. You are too kind

Well, look at the results of this study. Using NFL '07 as a metric, this data shows that the Wii actually failed at maintaining interest of the hobbysists: