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December 9th, 2009 at 11:30am
Under Xbox 360
In one day, the NPD Group will release its game sales report for the month of November, which should reveal the (near) exact number of units Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has sold in the US thus far. In the meantime, Gamespot reported on two analysts who have predicted the portion of November software sales that were made up of Warfare purchases. Industry analyst superstar Michael Pachter says the game accounts for 23 percent of total game sales. However, Pacific Crest analyst Evan Wilson has it pegged at 25 percent of total November sales.
Wilson added that this feat is made especially impressive due to his firm’s prediction that “this November’s sales will match the month’s highest historical total on record.” In related news, news stories dealing with Modern Warfare 2 composed 67.2 percent of all news stories over the past month. Oh, wait — now it’s 67.5 percent!
Analysts: Modern Warfare 2 composed over 22 percent of November game sales originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 7th, 2009 at 04:00pm
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If you read the first installment in the latest installment of “Pachter Predixx,” you already know that the analyst’s new report praises the PS3 for its resilience during these troubled times. According to the report, the PS3 saw an 85-percent year-over-year sales increase in November, while the Wii and Xbox 360 suffered sales declines. This reversal in fortune leads Pachter and his Wedbush associates to a surprising conclusion: “We think that the PS3 will again outsell the Xbox 360 in November and December, prompting a price cut some time early next year.”
Pachter adds that while Microsoft “has the ability to lower price yet again,” it probably won’t do so until “it begins to lose significant market share to Sony.” As with all conjecture — even when delivered by professional conjecture conjurers — we suggest considering Pachter’s educated guess as just that: a guess.
Pachter predicts another Xbox 360 price cut in 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 7th, 2009 at 02:40pm
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Though the November NPD sales report won’t be released until later this week, gaming industry analyst (and possible soothsayer) Michael Pachter has predicted November’s biggest players in the gaming hardware and software markets. Unsurprisingly, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the highlighted title in his report — not only does the report claim the game sold around 6 million units last month in the U.S. (for about $350 million), it credits the game with pulling the industry out of a downward spiral that it’s followed for seven of the past eight months.
The report also awards a large gold-star sticker to the PlayStation 3, which is predicted to have sold 700,000 units in November, an 85-percent year-over-year sales increase. Despite the two upswings, Pachter’s report ends on a decidedly dour note, stating, “as 2009 draws to an end, it is clear that it will end as a horrible year for video game publishers.” Pachter suggests that sales will drop off once more in December. Happy holidays, gaming industry professionals!
Pachter: Modern Warfare 2 sold 6m units in Nov.; PS3 hardware sales skyrocketed originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 6th, 2009 at 11:02am
Under Wii / Nintendo
Though plenty of people — analyst Michael Pachter chief among them — are pretty certain that an HD version of the Wii is in the pipeline, you’re not going to catch Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Amie copping to it. Speaking with Geoff Keighley on Gametrailers TV, the Regginator said, “Michael continues to be the only one who believes that this is gonna happen. I don’t know how forcefully we can say there is no Wii HD.”
It certainly sounds like a firm refusal, but let’s all try to remember that the shelf life of a Nintendo denial is exactly 10 days.
Reggie denies the existence of Wii HD originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 16th, 2009 at 12:00am
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Over at IndustryGamers, everyone’s favorite video game predicterer (we’re still working on that one) Michael Pachter has taken the reigns of the site and offers his own extensive diatribe on the future of Sony and Microsoft’s upcoming new tech: Project Natal and the PlayStation Motion Controller (rumored to be called Sphere). Pachter’s assertion is that price will be Natal’s biggest selling point and Microsoft will try to expand upon its market of established Xbox 360 owners by offering the device for $50. For Sony’s doodad, Pachter says the company is “trying to create an answer to the success of the Wii.”
Pachter even likens the future state of a Natal-enabled Xbox 360 to the current state of the iPhone — with features like Twitter, Netflix, Last.fm and Facebook inside Microsoft’s box and its intuitive interface, he says casual or non-playing members of Xbox 360 households will become interested. And then when it’s bundled with all new Xbox 360s, he says that’ll expand Microsoft’s reach even more.
For the motion-controlled competition, Pachter says he’d be surprised if Sony’s asking price was over $100, and stresses that both Microsoft and Sony need to keep “the consumer’s cost relatively low in order to achieve broad penetration.”
[Update: Corrected Pachter's belief that the motion controller would be no more than $100. We sincerely apologize for the misinterpretation and the consequent misinformation.]
Pachter: Project Natal will cost $50, ‘Sphere’ no more than $100 [update] originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 18th, 2009 at 09:00pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
What you see above is the third circular image we’ve spotted in just five days advertising a Nintendo Wii price cut to $199.99. At this point, though the image that a Kotaku tipster sent in could very well be made of fancy pixel work by someone with too few extracurriculars on their schedule, we’re fairly confident in a forthcoming price cut reveal.
Considering the impending holiday season and those other consoles getting recent price drops, it seems likely something will occur with the big N in the upcoming months. If Miss Cleo’s Michael Pachter’s predictions based on slowing sales are any indication though, we’ll know soon enough.
Rumor: Best Buy ad fuels the $50 Wii price drop fire originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 11th, 2009 at 10:00pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
NPD figures show that, compared to the same five-month period last year, sales of the Wii in the US are down a full 50% — prompting
Michael Pachter, games industry analyst at Wedbush Morgan, to look away from his
crystal ball long enough to …
analyze the situation. In a note reprinted by
IndustryGamers, Pacht-Man — having finally gotten the PS3 price cut he’d
always wanted — called on Nintendo to drop the cost of Wii, lest its sales slide further.
“With the core PS3 and Xbox 360 models priced only $50 higher than the Wii, we expect year-over-year sales of Wii hardware to continue their annual declines until the company either changes its bundle or lowers price,” Pachter pronounced before concluding, “Wii unit sales are 50% below last year’s level over the last five months, and we think that September sales will repeat the pattern.”
So, Joystiq Biomass, let’s say Nintendo doesn’t cut the price of the Wii before the holidays. What games and/or hardware would you bundle the system with in order to boost sales — and help save Ivan?
Wii sales have dwiindled by 50% in the past five months originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 23rd, 2009 at 12:00am
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How much are you willing to pay for Infinity Ward’s latest tunnel-of-fun shooter? Is it £54.99 (close to $90)? If so, you’ve passed what Michael Pachter calls “a one-time test for Activision.” Or maybe Activision is passing the test. The point is … nobody likes taking tests! No, that’s not it.
The Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst has told Eurogamer that Modern Warfare 2’s higher retail price — allegedly spurred on by the Euro’s strength against the British Pound — stems from a calculated business decision. “Activision knows it has a ‘hot’ game, knows that the market will pay an additional 10 per cent, and has decided to increase price accordingly,” Pachter said, adding that the Pound was worth less last year when Call of Duty: World at War launched. Pachter speculates that should the gamble pay off, consumers can expect other games to similarly prod established price boundaries.
But you guys aren’t going to let that happen! And you’re certainly not going to spend a fortune on some goggles and a useless plastic head, right?
Hello? Anyone?
Pachter deems UK’s Modern Warfare 2 price hike a ‘test’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 1st, 2009 at 05:00am
Under Wii / Nintendo
Normally when Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter whips out his crystal ball and starts getting the vapors, he doesn’t have time to turn on his minirecorder and take down the futurespeak channeled through his body. Luckily for us (and you!), he not only recorded it this time, but also wrote it down in the form of the 2009 Interactive Industry Report! We delved through the beast of a document this afternoon and found an interesting segment regarding the Nintendo Wii relying on “slower adoption rates of current generation technology” (read as: high-def displays) to help boost sales.
Pachter writes on page nine of the report, “The global recession served to benefit Nintendo at its competitors’ expense,” referencing Microsoft and Sony as having slower console sales this generation due to HDTV functionality built into the systems. He argues that consumers who might purchase the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 are more likely to buy the Wii not only because of the lower price point, but because of the subsequent HDTV purchase price. “Expect most consumers to defer purchasing a PS3 or an Xbox 360 until they have purchased an HD monitor,” Pachter explains. Though we’re not convinced that the same folks who would be purchasing an Xbox 360 or a PS3 would be running out to buy a Nintendo Wii in every case, we digress. What say you, Joystiq Biomass?
Pachter: Nintendo is benefiting from global recession side effects originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 1st, 2009 at 02:30am
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Although Wedbush Morgan analyst, Michael Pachter, predicts PS2 will become somewhat irrelevant in 2009, he doesn’t discount the combined strength of the PlayStation brand. He remains optimistic for the entire PlayStation family as he expects “software sales for Sony consoles to account for 31% of all game software sold worldwide.”
Pachter indicated in Wedbush’s annual Interactive Industry Report that, while the numbers have been dwindling for PS2, overall worldwide software sales for PS3 titles have more than doubled within the last year. In 2008, 62.4 million units of PS3 software titles have been sold — a huge step up from the 29.6 million units sold in 2007. The momentum of this growth will carry into 2009, according to Pachter, who believes PS3 and PSP titles (the latter of which only saw a 15% increase in worldwide sales last year) will pick up PS2’s slack.
PS3 titles will be the top sellers, despite the fact that Pachter predicts Sony won’t “secure significant third party exclusivity” as it continues “to focus its internal development efforts on blockbuster games.” It’s interesting to note, in light of another report, this strategy hasn’t really worked out for Sony.
Pachter: PlayStation software sales will account for 31% of all games sold worldwide in 2009 originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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