Wii 2 Delay Is Hurting Nintendo

BanjoTed writes "Michael Pachter's ongoing spat with Nintendo regarding the Wii 2 is well documented. Pachter is sure it's coming, Nintendo says it's not. Now the analyst has gone one further by claiming that the declining sales of the Wii documented in the platform holder's recent financial statements will only get worse unless it speeds up attempts to get its successor to market. He said, 'The reason for this is clear: the software being created is just not interesting enough or compelling enough to drive Wii owners to buy more than two [games] per year, and most of those purchases are first party software. We can blame the third party publishers for making shovelware, or for misjudging the Wii market, but the simple fact is that the publishers have to develop completely separate games for the Wii because its CPU is not powerful.'"

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Gee, didn't someone get lynched for saying that?

[Anonymous Coward]

We can blame the third party publishers for making shovelware, or for misjudging the Wii market, but the simple fact is that the publishers have to develop completely separate games for the Wii because its CPU is not powerful.'

... is just a more polite way of saying:

"The way you manufacture a Wii is you take two GameCubes and duct tape." As if that wasn't already enough to break a fanboy's heart, (Spore developer Chris Hecker) called on Nintendo to "make a console that doesn't suck ass."

The Wii hardware sucked in 2007, and surprise surprise, it still sucks in 2010.

Re:Who is Michael Pachter?

[Anonymous Coward]

[[citation needed]]

Re:Who is Michael Pachter?

[GrumblyStuff]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pachter

Re:please don't call this guy an analyst

[Hurricane78]

Calling Michael Pachter an analyst is akin to calling your local butcher a surgeon. This so called analyst has a long history of ridiculous claims.

Huh? There are analysts that are not butchers? That’s news to me...
What the hell is an “analyst” anyway, other than someone who is so sure of himself that he pulls others into believing him? (Completely unrelated to the question of he actually knows anything. ^^)