Just go 3rd party Nintendo, I promise I'd buy all your products if you did!!

Considerering Nintendo makes about 12% off of each game sold, Nintendo makes about $4.80 off every game sold.  

So with Pokemon Black/White  Nintendo roughly made this abount $72,000,000.  It is an estimate but their you go.  Just do a little math and you will get your answer.  Now I'd appreciate it if you stopped argueing in here when you aren't really bringing up anything in the first place.

70/30 is perfect for me.

Arguing? Who is arguing? I just asked for specifics.......Now that I have it, if we consider B&W to be a ball park figure of the next one, then they are still going to be falling short of that $1.1 billion unless they can get more consoles, portable and static, out of the door with a high game adoption rate. 

What I'm bringing up is that saying Nintendo won't reach $1.1 billion is quite reasonable when you look at the figures. Why do you have an issue with that??

I do agree that his statement that Nintendo should have sold the 3DS for $299 was really, really stupid - but that doesn't make all of his statements stupid.

You're basically saying that the tablet controller was a bad idea, right? "A tablet controller wouldn't have caught on regardless of the timing." In that sense you and Pachter actually shares the same opinion. He also thinks it's a bad idea. And when he's talking about catching up to MS and Sony it's clearly in regards of online services, which the Wii was severely lacking. And they might have caught up now, but when PS720 is released they might be left in the dust again, and people therefore wouldn't buy Wii U since the online (might) be much better on PS720. I think Pachter does have a point here; had Wii had a better online function they would have been in a better spot now.

So, basically, Nintendo could be a good investment in the short term? Before the 8th gen truly gets rolling?

do people still take michael patcher seriously?

"Both Xbox and Sony will be successful with a split market." ..

This is the best prediction!!!!!!!!!..........

... only cause his more wrong most of the time LOL

I see 2 flaws with your first paragraph:

1) Some games actually needs a good online infrastructure to sell, like CoD and other popular multiplayer games, so by not having a good online capability Wii lost out on quite a few games and wasn't capable of building an online-following of sorts (like PS360 managed to do). Therefore; better online support=more games. Now, this probably wouldn't have made a whole lot of difference since Wii was so severely handicapped by its specs this might not have mattered too much... But still, it's a valid argument.

2) Nintendo tends to make the same kind of games, they tend to target the same kind of people. I like Nintendo's games, mind you, so it's not criticism as such. BUT, expanding and making more games doesn't necessarily equal more consoles sold since the games might cater to the same core audience. Why do you think PS360 ( and even more so PS1 and PS2) were so successful? They catered to a wide range of gamers, and that is something Nintendo's 1st party probably won't be able to replicate on a larger scale.

By and large, I agree with your second paragraph, and would like to add that Pachter is unnecessary anti-Nintendo many times, but he's not always wrong about their business practices.

1) I believe that if all consoles (Nintendo, Sony, MS) would start from scratch with the same specs and online features and they all got the same 3rd party support I believe Nintendo would sell the most because they have the best 1st party games, but 3rd party games would be a great complement and would help push Nintendo's console above and beyond that of Sony and MS. So 3rd party games is nothing sneeze at. It's quintessential. Wii is THE only console to ever win a generation without the best 3rd party line up, and that's a fact (excluding 1st and 2nd gen). I don't think a Nintendo only console would do too well if it didn't have something new like Wii had; without 3rd party support Nintendo is doomed to repeat N64 and GC.

2) More Nintendo games would indeed lead to more HW sales, I'm not arguing that. The question is, HOW much more would more N-games be able to push? Nintendo struck gold with Wii, and it's all thanks due to the Wiimote. It's not thanks to Mario, Zelda, Metroid or Pikmin. Wii's success is spelled motion control, so unless Nintendo can keep innovating the very way we play games and manage to "lure in" none-gamers they'll need 3rd party games. People who like CoD, Halo, God of War, Uncharted, Gran Turismo and other franchises would never considering buying a Nintendo exclusive console because they wouldn't have any games to play.

He obviously hasn't played a Wii U, it's a great product. A screen on a controller is strange but Nintendo have put the buttons in the right places so that it's comfortable to use. There's just more games needed (it has some decent ones anyway) and it's all set.

And why must Sony focus on services that are available everywhere anyway, games are what will sell it. He's an idiot if he think skype or netflix will sell Xbox's or Playstations!