Pacther: What the Pro Controller and CoD was an "educated deduction"

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Technology - Video Games
Thursday, 19 July 2012 04:00

A couple of days analyst Michael Pachter released some comments regarding the existence of the Wii Controlle r U Pro alleged that Nintendo received threats as conditions to enable them to publish Call of Duty .

While he recognized that no one said anything directly, also said:

I know for big games like CoD "no, we will not post it on the Wii if U do not give us a conventional control" and that Nintendo relented.

This generated considerable controversy and secure more than one eyebrow raised, and perhaps that is why Pachter decided (or had to) clarify his remarks :

I'm jumping to conclusions by assuming that the pressure Activision. I do not know that or the first or second hand, no one told me. I'm just deduction from what we know, and is an educated deduction.

If the Pro Controller is multi-platform game, that means it's for games from other companies. Nintendo has never done anything so altruistic by other companies so I concluded that the Pro Controller added pressure on these companies. The pressure could have come from anywhere - EA sports games, Ubisoft with Assassin's Creed or Take Two GTA - but it seems that the "premium" that would make the Wii U console legitimate as an option to play multi-platform is Call of Duty.

Well, looks like Pachter can not clarify their statements without adding more speculation of his own and to be a video game analyst, as it is not given much of the analysis accurate or truthful.

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