I'm not a big fan of his new "show" but seems like he has an idea about FPS and why they're so popular.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-127-pach-attack/702526

Also he claims that console sales have peak, so maybe that's why software sales have been slow.

Anybody know how much this dood gets paid?

seriously? his right about 50% of the time

even a broken clock is right twice a day

He's not paid for his public comments. At least, nothing compared to his private analyst role at his institution. If he got the latter as wrong as the former, he'd lose his job.

I actually think (like Malstrom) his comments are to influence the news cycle more than be accurate.

Spot on

anyone care to summarize for those who don't want to watch it?

Pachter, as a (former?) tax lawyer, doesn't think there will be VG taxes.  As an analyst, he doesn't think the decline of FPSs (they're declining?) is because the genre is getting stale but because console sales are waning.  He expects FPS to be the lead genre going forward.