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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