I always knew that Timmy is smarter than Pachter^^

Another point, it's possible that before Sony/MS release their new consoles, Nintendo will have already built up a decent user base & online community, released their AAA 1st party games, and 3rd parties may start releasing more games on the system by then since the user base is higher. This could put the new consoles at a similar disadvantage to what is described in the OP at their launch. Those predictions act as if the PS4/Nextbox are coming out next week!

I wonder what console gamers are going to choose to play the next call of duty online: the multi million Wii U or the newcomers PS4 and Xbox720? Will it still be an easy choice?

i never understood why gaming press makes articles about weeks old quotes..

“Call Of Duty is amazing on the Wii U this year. The problem with playing Call Of Duty online is it’s a community and if there’s only four people playing it on the Wii U it’s no fun.”

Like X720 and PS4 will sell 70M on launch and CoD 14M on each on eachplatform.

I guess Call of Duty will have to be made for the PS3 and the 360 and be ported to the newer consoles this november, since they can't expect such big sales and that makes the investment of 200+ million dollars not worth it. This will probably mean that we'll have to wait till november 2014 for a true 'next generation' Call of Duty. Same goes for Assasins Creed and other annual big budget games!

Then nobody in their right mind would buy a PS4 or a X720 and say 'I'm going to play Call Of Duty' in 2013 at least.

So next gen CoD matters the most in being the best according to Pachter.  Sometimes I wouldn't mind seeing the video game industry crash again.  Hopefully the crash will be severe enough to end EA and Activision.

Sony is in bad financial shape and can not afford to take large losses, and Microsoft is no longer able to sell large losses in the videogame business to investors, so consumers are going to face a price that better matches the true cost to manufacture these systems. To put this in perspective, a repeat of the "XBox 360 strategy" would (likely) result in a system that was close to $600; and a repeat of the "PS3 strategy" would (likely) result in a system that is close to $900.


Now, if Sony and Microsoft target the broder market expect them to want to bundle an expensive new controller and sell the system for under $400; which means that Microsoft would (probably) have to cut the manufacturing cost in half compared to the XBox 360 at launch, and Sony would have to cut the manufacturing cost by 2/3 compared to the PS3 at launch.

With that said, there is room to improve their consoles but Sony and Microsoft will either produce a more modest improvement or a more expensive console than people are expecting.

Even a broken clock...