Michael Pachter's Most Inaccurate Predictions

mistermostyn | August 27, 2007 | News | PC Playstation 2

You gotta love videogame analyst predictions! So often a source of unbridled fun and mirth as fully grown and well educated adults attempt to forecast the outcome of an industry that is surely beyond the realms of prediction.

Meet Michael Pachter, analyst for Wedbush Morgan and perhaps the one true travelling gypsy of videogame predictions. Enjoy. Bring salt.

He’s surely the gaming industry’s most well-known crystal ball-gazer, the man whose views US blog Kotaku once reported on almost 20 times in two months, and, like most analysts, he gets his fair share of stick on gaming forums. His name (drumroll, maestro) is Michael Pachter, and - despite what snotty message board detractors might say - the majority of this Wedbush Morgan employee’s predictions regarding the games industry actually turn out to be right on the button.

Naturally however, there’s an element of risk involved in Pachter’s line of work, a chance that some predictions will go slightly askew, or even prove quite spectacularly wrong. Many of his more wayward prophecies have been swept surreptitiously beneath the carpet of recent history, so GamerSquad decided to go quote-hunting in a bid to find some of the Pachterisms that not only missed the goal, but flew clean out of the stadium for good measure.

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tallteen86 | August 27, 2007

Dunno this guy, and I don't really care much about analysts...

Even the best guesstimators have to be wrong sometimes, sometimes dead wrong...

Without a time machine, it really is hard to account for all variables...especially when you don't have THAT much information...
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  Final Blade | August 27, 2007
  
  I gotta agree with you, not one is perfect and can predict the future, 360 pulled out some good sales at the end of july.
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TurMoiL911 | August 27, 2007

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WoW won't wow gamers

It's so far off the mark, it's laughable.
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black doom | August 27, 2007

Failed predictions, well with infinite possibilities and finite knowledge, those are bound to come in large numbers.
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huntyr | August 27, 2007

I predict that no one is right 100% of the time when making predictions
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Final Blade | August 28, 2007

Who thumbs me down i was complimenting the 360.
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  TurMoiL911 | August 28, 2007
  
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  i was complimenting the 360.
  ... No, seriously.
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    Final Blade | August 28, 2007
    
    i hope you was being sarcastic.