{"id":11006,"date":"2018-01-22T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/random_turns_out_everyones_favourite_video_game_analyst_was_right_nintendo_fans_will_buy_cardboard"},"modified":"2018-01-22T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:30:00","slug":"random-turns-out-everyones-favourite-video-game-analyst-was-right-nintendo-fans-will-buy-cardboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/22\/random-turns-out-everyones-favourite-video-game-analyst-was-right-nintendo-fans-will-buy-cardboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Turns Out Everyone&#8217;s Favourite Video Game Analyst Was Right, Nintendo Fans Will Buy Cardboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Love him, or hate him,\u00a0Wedbush Securities research analyst Michael Pachter sometimes makes some quite interesting predictions when it comes to Nintendo, and this blast from the past really makes us chuckle.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2012 on a episode of Bonus Round, everyone&#8217;s favourite\u00a0analyst\u00a0inadvertently predicted that Nintendo fans would go crazy for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/hands_on_the_future_of_gaming_is_cardboard_thanks_to_nintendo_labo\">Nintendo Labo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First he said Nintendo fans weren&#8217;t that stupid:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t think Nintendo fans are so stupid they would buy a piece of cardboard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But then, when explaining his position, he went on to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A box on the other hand, that says Nintendo on it, they probably would. Remember when you were a kid and you get gifts, and when you\u2019re really little you like the box better than the gift? That\u2019s how I think of Nintendo fanboys.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Quite a damning view of &#8220;Nintendo fanboys&#8221; from our old chum\u00a0Pachter there, but it is amusing that he even <em>thought<\/em> of the idea of Nintendo selling cardboard in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Labo is <em>so<\/em> much more than just cardboard; it&#8217;s got the engineering precision of an IKEA chest of drawers &#8211; and lest we forget both sets come with innovative games to play, too.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know what you think about\u00a0Pachter&#8217;s prediction with a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Love him, or hate him,\u00a0Wedbush Securities research analyst Michael Pachter sometimes makes some quite interesting predictions when it comes to Nintendo, and this blast from the past really makes us chuckle. Back in 2012 on a episode of Bonus Round, everyone&#8217;s favourite\u00a0analyst\u00a0inadvertently predicted that Nintendo fans would go crazy for Nintendo Labo. First [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}