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In the most recent episode of Pach-Attack on GameTrailers, everybody’s favourite game analyst, Michael Pachter, answered some viewer questions related to Nintendo. The answers to these questions may shock you, as Pachter didn’t exactly say anything against Nintendo.
At any rate, you can find the questions as well as answers after the break:
PDantas: “Mr.Pachter, do you think Nintendo is expanding their eShop services for countries outside the US anytime soon? I’m in Brazil and I fear I won’t be able to download the new Wind Waker HD when it comes out.”
Michael Pachter : “Yeah I think so, I think Nintendo is very late to the party with the eShop. But so far what I’ve seen it actually works quite well, you know, I think in typical Nintendo fashion they did it right, they just did it late. So I think it’s their intention that any place you can download their games, they’re happy to sell them to you.”
Mr. Pachter feels that, although Nintendo is late with the eShop, they are doing it right as well as, well, well! He even went as far to say as, “..in typical Nintendo fashion they did it right…”
Marc42: “What do you think of Nintendo re-releasing Wind Waker? No mention of Mario, Metroid etc. Creative troubles?”
Michael Pachter: “Urm, I think Nintendo is an enigma wrapped up in a question mark. I have no idea what motivates Nintendo to release the games they release. I think you can safely assume that if Nintendo thinks they can make money re-releasing a game, they’re going to re-release the game. I certainly wouldn’t diss them at all for bringing back Wind Waker, and I would not rule out that because today there is no mention of any other game they’re not going to do that.
I think that pretty much anything that is Mario or Zelda is under Miyamoto’s control and I think that Miyamoto is given complete freedom to pick and choose what he wants to work on, what he wants his studios to work on. I think that he decided that Wind Waker would just look great in HD. The demos we saw it looks pretty great in HD. It’s a big big franchise and I think they will sell a lot of units. The only constraint to selling units of Wind Waker is the amount of Wii Us out there. So far not very many, but in time there is going to be 10, 15, 25 million and I when there are they are going to get a very high attach rate.
That audience is super loyal to the Zelda franchise, of course they’re also loyal to Mario but you’re going to get a new Mario title, probably more of these retro titles later on in the Wii U’s life cycle, but again I’m at a complete loss to explain what motivates Nintendo to do anything, they have their own method, it has worked for them for a long time. I would never ever question their software strategy, I think they do a great job on software, I consistently question their hardware strategy but not software, I think they know what they’re doing.”
With these kind of answers, I believe that our good friend Mr. Pachter is less anti-Nintendo and more pro-powerful technology. Most of his gloom-and-doom predictions for the Wii U tie in to his belief that the system hardware is less powerful than the other next generation consoles will be. However, it appears that he does, in fact, see the Wii U being successful in whatever way it can be. Maybe Pachter is pro-gaming moreso than pro-Nintendo, which can always be a good thing.
What do you think of Mr. Pachters answers?
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