Michael Pachter just made a fallacy of analogy. The relationship between a gaming system, its software, and the retailer that sells them is nowhere near the same relationship of a refrigerator, food, and it's retailers or a MP3 player, music, and their retailers. It's a fallacy because he forgot to mention food needs special sections to be sold in the same area as a refrigerator which only superstores do. Even more so the same people that make them don't make the food. Same thing for iPods. Different companies that make the electronics that do the music and different necessities and needs when it comes to the music. But with gaming the same people in some cases make the hardware and software, ALWAYS sold in the same store and area, and of course have likeness between the two products where they can be put in the same store. Good job Pachter you just made a logically-impaired argument... which isn't surprising.
But I must say... I can't blame them. The retailers make more off software than they do hardware. Retailers make close to nothing off hardware really. Don't make too much off software either but a lot more than they ever could off of software. Can't say I blame their decision. I don't think it'll get them too far but I can understand their reasoning.
