This is great news. Now the Wii U will meet those targets. Pachter is always wrong.

When's this old timer going to grow out of fanboyism

I love how the title of the article is "Top Analyst", haha.

It will be interesting to see tough how much software will be shipped by march 31st.

4 games per console is a lot. I don't know if it's a lot for a holiday launch, but it's a lot for any other time. We'll see.

i was thinking the targets were high until rol reminded me these are shipment figures. they are fine, perhaps even low.

Hardware? Possible. This thing is going to be a beast in Japan, and recently I've become a bit less worried about Europe. Software? I doubt it.

so are we back to Nintendo is doomed?

When have we ever moved away from "Nintendo is doomed"?

Yes, I most certainly didn't get that memo.

*checks inbox*

Yeah, definitely didn't get that memo--doomed it (still) is.

If Nintendo can ship 3.5 million systems before the end of 2012, I think they can easily make the 5.5 million target ...

The software totals will be more challenging, but if they're including bundled software as well as downloaded software it should be pretty easy