Pachter: Wii Is The McDonalds Of Consoles

Pachter: Wii Is The McDonalds Of Consoles

Famous Wedbush Morgan analyst, Michael Pachter, likened Wii's success factors to McDonalds'.

"The Wii audience isn't sophisticated enough to know whether the game they're buying compares favorably to, say, Gears of War or LittleBigPlanet, because they probably don't own an Xbox 360 or a PS3," he said."They buy the Wii games that they buy for the same reason that people go to McDonald's."

"McDonald's doesn't win a lot of restaurant critic awards but they are approachable, they're consistent, and you know what they're going to serve you."

"I mean, who sells more food -- McDonald's or Ruth's Chris Steak House, which certainly serves better meat? Nintendo has become the fast food machine. Sony is very much the high-end restaurant. And Microsoft is somewhere in between," Pachter concluded.