So...I Challenged Michael Pachter in an Email and it seems he responded

[Demotruk]

jammy2211 said:

Demotruk said:
Pachter doesn't have costs though. He has sales figures, not development costs. In order to show economies of scale making up for higher development costs you'd have to actually show the costs, and then in comparison to the revenue would you have profit.

Why would he not have access to costs? lol.

 He's paid by these companies to do an analsysis of their costs to potential pay-off type ratio thing....

Isn't he paid by a brokerage firm to analyze the companies? He analyzes the market using data from companies like NPD, I'd be surprised if third parties gave him access to their internal figures, as what he does is not supposed to be for their benefit.