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Analysts EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Analyst believes a lot of people bought Modern Warfare 2 35 The other day a GameStop employee told me that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 had the “biggest launch in the history of entertainment.” I didn’t put much stock into what the emp... Analyst: 360 owners 'defecting' to PS3 this holiday 86 The Xbox 360 has long been considered the superior option for multiplatform games thanks to Xbox Live integration and the fact that it is, more often than not, the lead development platform. Howe... Pachter: Modern Warfare 2 to top $500 MM in launch week 38 Industry analyst and professional sky pirate Michael Pachter has polished his crystal balls to predict, shockingly, that Modern Warfare 2 will sell a lot of copies when it launches. According to ... Another new Nintendo handheld next year? Slow down! 26 Playing catch up with Nintendo is a bitch. They keep making a bunch of little game systems that roughly do the same thing, and I keep buying them. DS -> DS Lite -> DSi -> DSi LL -> ?... Pachter: Netflix on Wii within a year 41 Videogame analyst and skilled huntsman Michael Pachter has been shining his crystal balls once again and peering into the future, predicting that the recent Netflix/PS3 partnership has paved the ... Analyst: DJ Hero demand is well below expectations 42 It's got the "Hero" name and is being backed by the Activision marketing machine, but analyst Doug Creutz of Cowan and Company believes DJ Hero is not setting the world afire as one mig... Analyst: 'Xbox 360 consumers are not begging for Blu-ray' 45 When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks, people listen. Earlier today, word went around that the executive had confirmed an upcoming Blu-ray player add-on for the Xbox 360 platform. What he actual... Pachter: Borderlands has been 'sent to die' 119 Borderlands is out this week and the first reviews are in, after many years of development and a solid few months of hype. Despite the media and gamer buzz, however, videogame analyst Michael Pac... Pachter thinks Project Natal will cost $50 51 While videogame analyst and chocolate avenger Michael Pachter was spreading his opinion-muck on the differences between Natal and the Sony Wiimote, he also predicted a price point for the new tec... Pachter: Project Natal > Sony Wiimote 33 Videogame analyst and Satan's jester Michael Pachter has been imparting his dirty wisdom quite a bit today, sharing with the world his opinion of the motion controllers being launched by Microsof... Pachter: iPod Touch a huge threat to publishers 42 Videogame analyst and professional bear breeder Michael Pachter has been chatting about portable gaming, sharing his rather apocalyptic outlook for the future of handheld gaming devices like the ... Pachter: PS3 is winning 75 Videogame industry analyst and deep-sea shark wrestler Michael Pachter has published his predictions for last month's sales, believing that when the dust has settled, Sony and the PS3 shall emerg... EEDAR reports 37% of 2009 Wii games went unreviewed 25 We joke about all the shovelware on the Wii around here, but seriously ... its kind of out of control just how much there is. This recent report from EEDAR really nails it: while 3% of the 360 ti... Wii sales down 50 percent and probably decreasing 45 Run for the hills, it's all coming to an end! Wii sales have dropped! PS3 sales are up! The world is spinning out of control, people. In a recent talk with IndustryGamer, analyst Michael Pachter ... EEDAR: Wii games are getting better 25 The Wii has earned a reputation as a beacon for some of the laziest shovelware ever to be thrown at a game system. It's not really Nintendo's fault, but the fault of third party hacks who are usi... EEDAR: Xbox 360 is in a 'tough position' following price cut 58 So, the Xbox 360 Elite dropped in price (while the Arcade price rose in the UK). Cue the trumpet call of the market analysts, with EEDAR being the first to weigh in and provide insight as to what... Analyst believes an Xbox 360 Slim is inevitable 48 Oh, those wacky analysts! With Sony announcing the PS3 Slim this past week at Gamescom, plucky analyst David Cole of DFC intelligence believes it's only a matter of time before Microsoft follows... EEDAR on PS3 price cut: Hallelujah! 47 Analysts have been among those clamoring for a PlayStation 3 price cut, so it's not surprise that EEDAR has been among the first to comment on news that $299.99 is the new entry-level price for t... Decline in game sales unrelated to quality of titles 10 If you were thinking of blaming the lack of stellar titles this summer for the considerable drop in year-over-year sales in the games industry, EEDAR's Jesse Divinich would probably urge you to r... Pachter: Games on Demand prices are likely to change 32 We've talked about Microsoft's Games on Demand initiative for Xbox 360 time and time again, but hey, we aren't the only ones. Analyst Michael Pachter also has a few things to say about the digita... Pachter: Sony and Nintendo 'made an error' with pricing 41 Videogame analyst and warrior of the north Michael Pachter has expressed his dismay at the perceived decline of videogame hardware. Looking at the July 2009 sales figures, Pachter believes that &... Pachter says gaming world isn't coordinated, causes delays 25 Recently it seems that the gaming industry has finally realized that releasing all of its vidoegames during the fourth quarter holiday season isn't the best plan of attack. Too many games get los... Fox News says that videogames sell well and then addict you 37 So this week the Entertainment Merchants Association released statistics on how the gaming industry was doing. Turns out the industry is doing pretty good year-to-year despite the current slump i... Michael Pachter poo-poos idea of a handheld Xbox 37 Last week, Microsoft bigwig Shane Kim claimed that portable Xbox gaming was a matter of "when." Despite this, videogame analyst and dangerous shaman Michael Pachter has discounted the i... Has the band-style music game peaked? 29 In his latest column on IndustryGamers, EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich suggests that the growth of peripheral-based music games may have already hit the ceiling. With sales in the genre down 30% fro... Pachter thinks GTA V could hit in 2010 or 2011 39 Gaming analyst and mutant superhero Michael Pachter knows that Grand Theft Auto 5 is in development. And he’s predicting that the inevitable follow-up to the venerable franchise will hit at... Analyst: BioShock 2 delay makes 2010 'the year of Take-Two' 13 While the delay BioShock 2 into calendar year 2010 may have gamers crying and sad, Electronic Entertainment Design and Research analyst Jesse Divinich thinks the publisher has made a smart decisi... Pachter: Sony will cut PS3 price by October 29 You know what we haven't written about yet? A PS3 price cut! That is quite a new and interesting subject to talk about, isn't it? Even better, it's a PS3 price cut story that involves Michael Pac... Pachter: Mobile games are a fad and EA is wrong 32 Industry analyst Michael Pachter delights once more in the billionth story to come from Wedbush Morgan's recent state-of-the-industry report. While most people believe that mobile games are the f... Pachter: PlayStation games to account for 31% of the market 17 Pachter's massive games industry report continues to be full of fun predictions. In our latest installment of "Pachter says a load of stuff that people inevitably hate him for," the pro... Pachter: Wii HD could 'seriously damage' PS3 comeback 42 Wedbush Morgan's report on the videogame industry seems to be the gift that keeps on giving. Yesterday, we spoke about how Pachter predicted that Sony would surpass the Xbox 360 in six years' tim... Pachter: PS3 will overtake Xbox 360 ... in 2015 51 The PlayStation 3 may will be chugging away in third place, but that hasn't stopped industry analyst Michael Pachter from declaring that Sony's black box o' Blu-ray will overtake Microsoft's beig... Analyst says Sony's motion control beats Natal 48 Where the hell do they hand out the professional analyst jobs, because I want me some of that. All you have to do is stand up, say something relatively inflammatory and the internet will quote yo... New Microsoft console with Natal? Not so much, say analysts 12 Last week's rumor was that Microsoft's new motion-sensing tech, codenamed Natal, would eventually be released with a whole new Microsoft gaming system. It was said that this new system could play... Pachter 'sorry' for PSPgo 'rip-off' quote 47 Earlier today we posted a story about industry analyst Michael Pachter, who criticized Sony's PSPgo and dubbed it a "rip-off." Now he has come out of the woodwork once again to apologiz... Pachter: PSPgo is 'ripping off' customers 56 Analyst Michael Pachter has put Sony in the corner and given it a firm spanking following the announcement of the PSPgo at E3. Criticizing the company's decision to charge so much money for its n... EA is ripe for a takeover? 59 Skepticism is pretty much the hat we need to don here, as we learn that some analyst believe that EA is perfect for a takeover. The number crunchers over at Cowen Research believe that thanks to ... E3 09: Psychic analysis with Michael Pachter 16 Surely you've already seen our E3 predictions from a real psychic. We'll let you decide how much weight you'll want to give Madame Christine of the Ether's readings on the Big Three for this year... Analysts are Go! Predict Star Fox and Twisted Metal 31 What do you think Michael Pachter does all day? I imagine him sitting at his desk, located in an office on the top floor of a building, throwing darts at a board labeled "Videogame Industry ... Another silly analyst calling for a $100 PS3 price drop 25 Look, we all know the PS3 is at an uncomfortable price point for most gamers. Sure, the price has slowly moved closer to an acceptable range, but it's still too high for some. It doesn't take an ... No money for the small gaming companies makes us sad 15 Looks like the good Rev. Anthony will have to start looking for another feature to write since it appears that the world of small publishers and independent development is pretty much out of mone... Meatspin Calculator Gymnastics: March 2009 9 Every time an analyst opens his mouth, the Internet swells with comments like “What an idiot” or “I could do that job.” I have a lot of respect for analysts despite their ... Mature titles unprofitable on DS? Analyst says so 28 Following the lower-than-expected sales performance of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, analysts and other professional guessers are clucking about the potential for mature-rated titles on the N... Just kidding: Wii not least used this gen, PlayStation 3 is 58 Yesterday, we reported some Nielsen statistics that indicate that the Wii was the least used console (in terms of minutes, at least in January) of this generation. Well, turns out someone made a ... Pachter: There won't be another generation of consoles 42 Typically I won't run Michael Pachter "stories," but once in a blue moon he'll say something I can't resist talking about. Today's nugget of fried gold concerns his prediction that this... Shocker: The PS3 will always have Blu-ray 28 Analysts make me laugh my head off sometimes. Outside of being professional guessers, they also some up with some ludicrous ideas, such as the guy who last month suggested that Sony would release... Silly analyst says that iPod Touch will kill the PSP 23 [smacks head]I mean, I have an iPhone and plenty of games on it. But it's not a game system. It's a communications device that can play some games. That's not how analyst Nicholas Lovell from Gam... Analyst: Resident Evil 5 sucks, why does it suck so bad? 31 Analysts are usually paid to talk about business things and stroke their chins while thinking about how great their pie chart looks. Not in Japan, it seems, where one particular analyst decided t... Analysts worry that the Wii will see a 'sudden collapse' 38 These worries come after Nintendo reduced its forecast for profit. KBC Financial Products analyst Hiroshi Kamide fears that Nintendo's Wii may be running out of steam. Kamide thinks that this for... Pachter: Sony not cutting price in 2009 'would be a mistake' 25 I guess Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter feels that 2009 is critical to Sony. I'm not necessarily with him on that, though. Is being in last place really that dire of a situation? He tells ... The most anticipated PS3 games of 2009 57 So...2008 just ended, and you probably thought you were in the clear when it came to year-end listmania. Well, you were technically right -- this list isn’t looking backward; it’s loo... Hardcore gamers have 'no clue' we're in recession, apparently 34 The Associated Press has an article up that's all about people like you and me, the so-called "core" gamers. I thought it was "hardcore" gamers, but I suppose that whatever bu... Analyst says DSi will not increase the audience significantly 21 Worked up about the new DSi? It seems impressions of Nintendo's new hardware vary widely, but analysts have already begun to assess the impact that the DSi could have on the consumer, and some of... Analyst: Wii is 'inhospitable' to third parties 28 Can Madden NFL 09 selling better on the PlayStation 2 than on the Wii prove that Nintendo's White Box o' Waggle is a wasteland for third party publishers? If you're Cowen Group analyst Doug Creut... Euro game industry rivals North American biz, according to analyst 6 Fresh off the heels of Leipzig, Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian has stated that Europe's importance in the global games market is increasing. The analyst stated that Europe's indus... Analyst questions EA Partners deals 8 Yesterday some pretty big news came out of the EA camp, with announcements that both Epic Games and Grasshopper signing on to publish games with EA's help. Add these two to the list of other heav... Former SCEE boss claims Sony and Nintendo will claim joint victory this gen 25 Former SCEE president Chris Deering has today suggested that Sony will eventually catch up to Nintendo, leading to a joint victory this hardware generation. Meanwhile, Microsoft is supposedly fat... Captain Obvious: Microsoft probably paid Bethesda for exclusive Fallout 3 DLC 30 During Microsoft’s E3 press conference a Bethesda rep announced that while Fallout 3 does have some sort of planned downloadable content, it will only be released for the PC and Xbox 360 ve... Analyst declares that the Wii is not a fad anymore 56 Gamers who are grumpy about the Wii's overwhelming success have often chalked it all up to the console's marketing and popularity, but they weren't alone -- market researchers and analysts alike ... May NPD: PS3 outsells Xbox 360, GTA IV sells like crazy 35 It's that time of month again where I plow through the NPD numbers and subsequent "big three" responses and try to make sense of it all. This month we see the same spin recipe we've see... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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