Of course it's true, but not based on your random comment about your school. Looking at the sales numbers and comparing it to the population of the world, it's easy to see that the vast majority of people don't play video games at all, regardless of platform or location, yes, even regardless of their age.

You think pachters sources are any less viable than vgchartz?  I'd say he probably has far more reliable sources than VGChartz does.  He gets paid thousands of dollars from real businesses for his opinion, show me what VGChartz gets for its? 

People don't like him because he states his opinions from a business perspective, not the consumers perspective.  His opinions are very accurate, people just don't like them because they're what EA and Activision follow.  

You think pachters sources are any less viable than vgchartz?  I'd say he probably has far more reliable sources than VGChartz does.  He gets paid thousands of dollars from real businesses for his opinion, show me what VGChartz gets for its? 

People don't like him because he states his opinions from a business perspective, not the consumers perspective.  His opinions are very accurate, people just don't like them because they're what EA and Activision follow.  

The sources of his opinions are...himself. I'm not sure you're understanding here. Predictions and opinions are not the same thing. What VGChartz does is predictions. What Pachter is doing, in this case anyhow, is give his opinion. People who don't agree with his opinion on this matter are not hypocrites for accepting VGChartz's predictions as being reasonably accurate. The two have nothing to do with eachother.

You honestly think he gets paid thousands of dollars to tell people his opinion without any knowledge backing it up....?  He's the kind of guy who is best buds with the CEO of EA games and Microsoft and so forth.  He references meeting various business people from those companies all the time.  He doesn't speak out of his ass.  You wanna look at VGChartz data and tell me its anymore accurate?  What was it again, VGChartz numbers can be as much as 30% off? and that's in either direction.  

At worst he gets asked questions which he's not an expert in.  You will see on those lists of things that he gets wrong, the things he usually gets wrong are things he said that have nothing to do with a companies business decisions.  He once said this was the last generation of consoles.  Clearly he shouldn't have been answering a question like that.  

The things he gets right are things like what will be bundled together, whether something is gonna start costing more or less money.  Those decisions he gets pretty damn accurate on.