Wii U 'isn't going to work' says Pachter

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Again, with the smear campaign. When was the last time they had an article saying "Wii U looks awesome" or "Wii U going to be a hardcore system?" Seriously. This guy doesn't even give a solid argument, he's just babbling opinionated nonsense. "Activision didn't say anything, but they totally made Nintendo make a Pro controller." "It won't work. The controller is stupid, and it won't work. I don't like it."

I'm also a bit skeptical of Nintendo's chances on this, but this Pachter guy thinks WiiU is going to sell to hardcore gamers as a primary audience? ... I understand that definitions of terms like "hardcore gamer" can get a bit fuzzy... but ... no.

Pachter should be forced to provide a disclaimer with every official comment he makes.

(What Ever I Say Will Undoubtedly Turn Out T Be The Exact Opposite).

Could get tricky with stock options, but should be pretty easy to work out for gaming...

Bring on the Wii, U & everyone else - YAHTZE!

This article means that the Wii U will work incredibly well.

I wish that Michael Pachter didn't work. That's if the pathetic part he has to play in society can actually be considered 'work'.

I'd like to meet him face to face so I can tell him what a huge D bag he is. How does this guy even have a job?

Well I personally think that it will sell quite well but many will regret getting it. I personally wont get it. Back when I was at college by roomie had a WII. It was fun for around 5-6 hours. Next month he sold it because it was just a big dust collector after that. Good for children I suppose, to be interactive (clumsily) with games and all that, but for me its just..not good. I really prefer having just a normal controller or keyboard+mouse. Its how I like to play my games.

Y'know, I'm usually the one defending Michael Pachter, but that's just drivel. I had major reservations about slapping a touchscreen on a handheld. It turned out to be the biggest thing since sliced bread. Frankly, I think they did the console a disservice associating it with the Wii rather than calling it something like DS Home(or something catchier, but still branded DS). Because that's what it is. And just like the original DS, it'll take some time for developers to figure out how to use it, and other devs more time to figure our how to NOT use it, but when it gets over the inevitable Year One Blues stage, it will bring the respect back for Big N in the console space.

I will probably get one...and a PS3 if the PS4 isn't backwards compatible

I'm surprised that anyone can actually agree with this guy. Even if you think the Wii will fail, I find it hard to agree with him, personally. His reasoning were quite dumb, and, for your own sake, you shouldn't agree with one who says that the success of a console (thereby proving him wrong) was a "fluke". That reeks of opinion not based on any sort of fact, and as an analyst, that should be an immediate red flag to us.

I probably won't buy the WiiU but I'm not ready to call it dead on arrival. Let it play and see how it does. What the hell good does it do to call it a failure before you even get your hands on it?

this guy sounds like a weatherman, hes gunna get paid even tho he has no clue what hes talking about.

@danusty @raahsnavj either that or he may mean something along the lines of, pachter saying it wont work, means that it will work.

I say, everyone who reads this buy a Wii U within the first month of release, and hopefully put Pachter out of a job!

Ironically, I think the Wii U's biggest flaw is not that it's gimmicky or that the newness won't sell units like it did with the Wii. Instead, the fundamental problem is that Nintendo has done such a poor job of differentiating it from the original Wii. The vast majority of laymen think the Wii U is simply a controller add-on for the Wii, and the fact that the system itself looks almost identical and uses Wii Remotes doesn't help.

When you've got a system with the same name that also looks the same as the previous model, you have a problem. It doesn't help that the Wii U will, at best, have price parity with the PS3 and 360 (but will likely be more expensive), yet have much less value-added features - BLU-RAY playback, etc.

When I look at the Wii U, I see a system that barely competes with the PS3 and 360 in terms of game support, online functionality, and multimedia support. A controller with a screen isn't exactly a huge selling point to me, especially since I already have an iPad and I generally am averse to gaming on anything that resembles a tablet.

I feel like the Wii U is jumping on a perceived bandwagon in the same way the Vita did - it's trying to merge the tablet/smartphone market with gaming. That's not exactly going well for the Vita right now.

Gods damn this man, I really don't get this why bash a console because its a game-play console instead of shiny pictures, like reading the Iliad and saying it sucked, just because there were no coloured pictures in it.

Some people like a game for pure game-play (me included) and don't care for the sceit that big producers pump out each year...

So keep at it Nintendo and all you Indie game-makers.

You've got my support.

"[The Wii] worked, they got lucky" That's hilarious, he thinks the success of a console was completely a fluke. The fact that this guy gets paid to pull this crap out from under him blows my mind.

Is Wii U supposed to be a next gen console or a new handheld? If its a next gen console, I laugh as it is no competition for CURRENT gen consoles, let alone next gen. If its a handheld, there's no reason for the 3ds and no reason for the Wii U because the PS Vita has pretty much all that the Wii U apparently has to offer, except for the flagship Nintendo games. But then again, Mario versus Nathan Drake? Not to mention that even the PS Vita will have more of the mainstream gaming market, as its confirmed that Call of Duty, Bioshock, and Street Fighter x Tekken will have their own Vita counter-part. I agree with him, the Wii U will sell because of its fanboys. Otherwise, its just a last gen tablet with Mario. And now comes the hate...

Well normally I buy Nintendo consoles for games like Mario, the Legend of Zelda, and Metroid, but I daresay that if Nintendo does NOT create a console capable of bringing me EVERY watered down, mediocre COD sequel on the market so's some microcephalic 12 year old special ed child drop out can spit racial slurs at me while playing multipla...ahhh hahahaha I can't even go on. Bringing up COD to prove your point against Nintendo's future success? If this pseudo intellectual chimp were to be paid for his inane gibberings in used napkins what spilled from an Arby's dumpster, he'd STILL be getting paid too much.

Seriously though...COD in a Nintendo discussion. What a fing champ. *wipes a tear from the corner of his eye*

First off, I don't know why the mention of the name Michael Pachter causes so many of you gamers to go into fits. Is it because you disagree with his "analyses" or because he actually gets paid to do it? I'm always interested to hear the opinions of insiders...it doesn't hurt my feelings or invalidate me as a pesron just because his ideas conflict with my own.

As far as Nintendo's "luck" goes, I think it could go either way. The Nintendo DS was novel, but the transition to the 3DS hasn't been as smooth. Sadly, some of the same problems that kept devs off the DS are keeping them away from the 3DS...adding a 3D element didn't do much to make things better, so the games have been slow to trickle out.

Lots of people had fun with their Wiis, but for many folks that time has passed. Nintendo might still be able to capture some loyalists if the price is low enough...getting a new console while still being able to play older games does have value, regardless of what Sony and Microsoft now say about it. But Pachter is right about this much--the XBOX 360 + PlayStation 3 + PC trifecta works so well because devs can assume a certain baseline of processing power and physical controls. Anything too far outside that norm means more time (and money) writing code, which eats into profits. For many games on the Wii, that effort was not deemed worthwhile...why would anybody assume the Wii U will be different?

Making the tablet controller an option is a good idea, but many devs will say stick with the standard 14-button / two-stick controller we all use and make it easier for us to port our games.

Probably should be shares In Nintendo then.

The only games I am interested in playing on the U that might possibly come out are first party titles that I can't get on another system. All of which would play better with a traditional contoller and since they are Nintendo titles, the chances of them having traditional support are approx less than a snowballs chance in hell.

Not even remotely interested.

Well, as long as the Wii U sells better than GC, Nintendo should be fine. Because if they can get a killer app with tablet functionality on it, like "Pokemon Online" we'll see it sell like hotcakes.

I agree with him. Nintendo has yet to give any reason as to why the WiiU's controller is like that, and will probably be a pain to programme games to. I honestly think it will bomb. Nintendo is also to being the best in promoting the system pre-launch, like not giving price or release date at this point.

I love how much stock Gamespot puts in this patcher guy who is an obvious troll it really says a lot about their own credibility overall. Why is his opinion any more important than any other troll he doesnt even have any information noone else has its just his opinion....and this deserves its own column why?????

"Hardcore gamers will buy them; hardcore Nintendo fanboys will buy it. They could put out a piece of cardboard and say that it'll play Mario and they'll buy it" Speculate all you want Pachter (I'm still in disbelief in why it's even a job), but refrain from comments like this. It's far from professional, it's insulting.