| fedfed said: Serious question... did he get anything right? If yes what? who is he working for? |
Did he get anything right? Nothing about the future as the first analyst to state it has ever been true when coming from Michael Pachter
He thought Zynga would dominate all and the facebook/social games bubble burst pretty damn fast like I was expecting it would. He hyped up and got lot of execs shifting models to Free-To-Play and I am sure that bubble will burst badly as well because free only works in a blue market. Not after competition comes in also offering free... then you quickly realize oh shit we are all spending but not making any bank except the few that get successful. Free-To-Play should also just be called Freemium or Socialized-Gaming where industry labelled Whale gamers that buy all the useless DLC crap fund the game for everybody else.
He said Wii would be toast against PS3 and X360 and was wrong. He said 3DS is dead, but now accounts for 70% of marketshare in Japan and historically Japan statistics tend to mirror into rest of markets with some lag. He said the Vita would smash the 3DS and the Vita is just happy to be selling better than the PSP.
It's best not to listen to the fool except for what not to expect.
He works for Web Bush... and advises foolish investors in the games industry which end up funding lot of Mobile and Social and Free to Play. Generally bubbles that will eventually burst if not bursting already.
I think the only major console game publisher that listens to Michael Pachter is Electronic Arts
- Advertising in games as evidence in all their sports titles and NFS and even their shooters with product placement and bill boards
- Michael Moore now publicly states he wants to make all EA games Free-To-Play (will be worst mistake they ever made)
- Sequels are more worth investing in than original IPs... hence all the money that goes into Medal of Honor pointlessly
- Investing in generic Gaming Tech like Frostbite 2 which isn't leveraged to external developers and forced to run Shooters (Battlefield), Racing (NFS - The Run), and RTS (C&C upcoming). I personally not impressed with Frostbite 2 at all in any of those genre. Frostbite was excellent for Bad Company, Criterion and Shift developers had great engines for their racing games. C&C never needed some generic engine before. They simply don't have the pedigree of Unreal or Source or Havoc to be making "game technology" they can forcefully leverage to make all their games cheaper... they just making all their games weaker.
