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Forums - Sales Discussion - Pachter: Slow game sales suggest “something is terribly wrong”

Mr. sickVisionz on 19 May 2010
noname2200 said:
Your thesis assumes that people who just lost their jobs and knew the job market was going to suck for a long time would nonetheless increase their entertainment budget for over half a year. I reject that idea.

Nothing I've said suggests or assumes something as ridiculous as that.



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noname2200 on 19 May 2010
Mr. sickVisionz said:
noname2200 said:
Your thesis assumes that people who just lost their jobs and knew the job market was going to suck for a long time would nonetheless increase their entertainment budget for over half a year. I reject that idea.

Nothing I've said suggests or assumes something as ridiculous as that.

"Gaming was receiving record income levels for several months (after the recession began)."

"And then (the recession) caught up."

 

What else could you be suggesting then?



StiC on 19 May 2010

Maybe everyone blew all of their spare cash on the all the quality games released in February and March.



averyblund on 20 May 2010

It's mostly the release list. Splinter Cell was fun, but it wasn't really an epic month.

But I do think that like it or not we have entered the backend of this gen. The wow-factor is gone, and the systems are fairly well optimized for. The only chance that this gen may have more than a few more years is if Natal and Move take off in a BIG way. Anything less and I expect to see a new Xbox in fall 2012.



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