by William D'Angelo, posted 3 minutes ago / 49 Views
Microsoft is doing anything it can to be in first place and outsell the PlayStation 4. This is according to Michael Pachter who spoke with GameInformer. Microsoft's main gain is to be first, while Sony is happy being second as long as they sell well and are profitable.
"People weren't buying the Xbox One and clearly a bunch of people migrated to PS4 from Xbox 360 because they didn't want Kinect," said Pachter. "So I think unbundling Kinect was the right idea. I'm not sure why Xbox didn't start outselling PlayStation right after they removed Kinect, because they didn't until they cut the price to $349 and started giving away free games."
"But it now shows you how serious Microsoft is about winning," Pachter added. "I'm curious to see if Sony is as serious about winning because when you speak to the Microsoft guys and you say, 'Do you really care if Sony sells more consoles than you, but you sell 150 million consoles of Xbox? Microsoft would – and I'm paraphrasing – say, "F***in' A yes I care. If you say the same thing to Sony, they would say, 'If we sell 150 million consoles who cares what Microsoft does?"
"So I think the attitude at Sony is to perform well and make a lot of money, and I think the attitude at Microsoft is to win. People have different opinions about what's the better way to be. I think investors would rather see Microsoft make money, but maybe there is some long-term strategic benefit from being first place. I don't know."
Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter has stated that Nintendo is in denial about the failure of the Wii U. He has stated that Nintendo is too focused on selling the Wii U at a profit that it is hurting the sales of the console. The Xbox One sells for $349, which is just $50 more than the Wii U.
"I think that they are still in denial about the Wii U failure," said Pachter in an interview with GameInformer. "You keep seeing this stat so we're up 82 percent – yeah, 40,000 units went to 70,000 units. Who cares? You're still trailing the other guys by a mile."
"They need a new console that's competitive with Xbox One and PlayStation 4. If Xbox can sell at $349 Nintendo could make it and sell for $249. They won't because they still live in that old console world where they think they need to make a profit on the hardware. That means if they make a competitive console it would be more expensive."
He added that Nintendo has done a bad job in gaining third party support. They did a bad job with the Wii, which was a successful console selling 100 million units. Pachter stated that Nintendo has done an even worse job with the Wii U.
"The problem is I think they did a bad job with third parties with the Wii and they've done an abysmal job with third parties with the Wii U, so I don't think third parties would come back for a new console," said Pachter. "If they come out with a new console and it is essentially identical programming language with the Xbox so the cost to port a game is zero, I'm still skeptical that third parties would support it."
"They possibly would, but only if the cost was so low," Pachter continued. "And that's the problem. Ubisoft got really burned on the Wii U making dedicated titles like ZombiU. Activision stopped making Call of Duty for the Wii U, and EA hasn't ever made a game for the Wii U. I don't think they come back."
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