Pachter On Next-Gen. NeXbox and Sony will be a success, WiiU crappy product

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JazzB1987 said:

Seriously every person that thinks:

"All my friends have XBOX LIVE GOLD on 360 is guaranteed to buy a next box and also have XBLG there."  Are really unsmart..... Same for PSN users.

So Pachters "online-service-install-base comment" doesn't make much sense.

PS4 cant play PS3 games nextbox might not play 360 games.

So the only difference is creating an account thats it.

When you think about it there is already a few hundred thousand Nintendo Network players that play games like COD etc. compared to not a single PS4 nextbox owner that plays online games right now. So according to Pachter's logic Nintendo Network IS the way to go.

I think it'll have some effect for those that really care about trophies/achievements but other than that I agree there's little to no reason for people being unwilling to change online services.  This especially holds true if pricing stays the same as I don't see as many people putting up with paid subsciption to play online when the competitor will be timely and more reasonably priced this time.  Some people just like to stick with what they go though, or they just like playing Halo with their friends and don't want to change.  I don't know it's a very hard number to nail down as far as how many people would factor this in.