I seriously feel that meme of whatever the oppersite of patcher says, will come to pass instead thing.....

How many times can he get away with being so completely wrong about everything?
Like legit, hes wrong more often than not.
How is he a analyst people pay for his views?

~34m or ~100m.... almost the same thing right? :p

He was only off by like 66 million users.

Microsoft did point out PC Game Pass subs were up 30% during the holiday quarter. Though, we don't know how many there were beforehand. For example, 3M PC Game Pass subs would mean just 1M new subs. If Game Pass topped 40M I feel like Microsoft would have said something. 

Kiss of death.

RIP Gamepass.

So this is were we're headed as an industry? Arguing/debating subscriptions? Think I'm gonna go play my SNES now.

Bro predicted in Feb 2024 that:

1. PS5 Digital gets a pricedrop to $299 in 2024.

2. GamePass subs go up by 50% to 45 million subs by 2024's end.

Bro's prediction for this year:

1. PS5 drops to $399 and PS5 Pro to $499 (omegalul)

2. Microsoft will figure out ways to really expand the penetration of GamePass (via deals with Chromecast, Fire TV, Roku, etc).

Bro is fun.

Yep. Debating subscriptions and "concurrent player counts" instead of actual sales figures for consoles/games. It's a classic example of moving the goalposts. The console wars are over but some people haven't gotten the message. In particular, those that depend on youtube views for their livelyhood will always push console wars nonsense until the day they die, because it gets them views.

We went from "WAIT FOR E3!" to "Wait for activision games to drop on gamepass"

Well games sell ~80% less on xbox, because of gamepass (dev's have said).... and with less and less console hardware sold ontop...
Xbox doesn't give any actual sales numbers on games anymore.

This is a video game forum, afterall.... why wouldn't we talk about subscriptions (and stuff like player engagement numbers)?


Also, this thread is about how crazily wrong Pachter seemingly was (which he quite often is), yet is still able to live off of giving advice.

Yeah, I know. But subscriptions? It's just sad, imo.

And yeah, Patcher is really something. Any one of us could provide, at the very minimum, the exact same service, if not far superior. And yet here we all are, doing it for free.