Consoles without HDDs are last gen! You know you can't have maximum satisfaction if you can't fill up an HDD with trailers from an online store!

And think where 360 owners would be if they couldn't access Facebook, or PS3 owners if they couldn't buy overpriced Blu-Ray movies! The unhappiness...

You NEED a HD console to fully enjoy life. Buy now while they last!

There, does that sum it up?

I actually don't find Pachter's prediction to be too outrageous most of the time, especially compared to a lot of other analysts. Having said that, in this case I really don't think the people who want to buy a Wii are going to care about a HDD.

Has he grasped why the Wii is popular? Its not because of the traditional console buyers that care about the features, its due to the new markets Nintendo has tapped into that couldn't care less about the features of the HD twins.

I agree Wii is due for a price cut, but most of the junk he said is well....junk.

Smells to me like another anal "Wii is doomed" prediction. They're all jumping on now because they don't see how the Wii can be successful any more. Funny thing is, these are the same people who didn't see the Wii's success coming and have been predicting an end to it since midway through 2007. They fail to see why the Wii has succeeded so far.

When are they going to put their hands up and admit they got it wrong?

Nintendo don't need a price cut yet. They need to regain the momentum they've lost this year, and that's going to come with the evergreen titles that have sold so many Wii and DS units over the last few years. If NSMB Wii, Sports Resort and Wii Fit Plus don't boost Wii sales during and after Q4, only then Nintendo will need a price cut.

This is really all just a moot point you know, according to Pachters timeline nintendo should be thowing in the towel here in the next couple months and makeing PS3 games ;)

I really think Pacther just says shit like this to keep his " internet celeberty" factor high, becuase if the shit he puts on his bosses/ customors desk is really this stupid, at this point in the game, he won't be working much longer. It's not really that hard to figure out that nintendo is pulling from a compleatly different potental aduince pool and very little that the hd tiwns can do will dierctly inflect pain on the wii IMO.

Hey, someone else noticed that.

His predictions here could come true, just not in any very significant way.

I agree in some ways it's a moot point now, if you're referring to Pachters' past predictions, but it does give you a good idea of his record and whether or not he's worth listening too now. That's if anyone needs any help in making that decision

funny how he compares each console like they were different versions of the same platform.

I can't tell you how much that just made me laugh

For the record this conversation was actually a lot more interesting.