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 the soothsayer, Infinity Ward's latest will rake in $500 million during launch week. That's quite a bit of money.
Pachter adds that Modern Warfare 2 will "easily" sell 10 million copies before the year is out. He has previously gone on record as saying that, given the right marketing, the game's sales could soar as high as 14 million.
It's a very safe bet to say that Modern Warfare 2 will be a success, and has a greater than possible chance of being this year's biggest shooter, if not the biggest shooter of all time. Mind you, this is also the guy that thought Borderlands was going to die, so who knows, eh?
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5:40 PM on 11.02.2009
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He is a professional analyst. He is not here to tell you jack shit. He is here to tell businesses and investors what they need to know to make proper decisions. You know that Modern Warfare 2 will be popular? Congratulations, have a gold star. You're a gamer. The average businessman doesn't know what kids are playing on the Nintendo these days, and since Pachter is usually at least pointing in the right direction, he's incredibly useful to them.
But it does make me wonder why Destructoid, considering its target audience, treats Pachter's predictions as newsworthy.
Please stop Jim.
Also, Pachter is a great guy, this is just his job. People need to shut up.
Really? Really?
Just because the internet provides you with a comment box does not mean you should type in it.
Anyways, he's exaggerating. There's no way a game like that is going to make $500m. It's going to make at least elevendy-billion within twenty four hours. Come on Pachter, get your facts straight.
I do agree however that Jim has a right to report on this guy, no matter how much of a toll or a moron we think he is.
Nowai.
I just wish Jim would be a bit more more selective when thinking about posting about this dude.
There HAS to be other options...
You win.
Jim can you guys at DTOID gather that from IW? the overall total of pre orders?
I hope that's sarcasm, and I just got trolled, I really do.
Trashing analysts is so retarded, and it makes gamers look bad. Look at it this way, do fans of any other industry ascribe any emotion to the analysts of that industry? I mean, think about it, there's analysts for every industry. Do people who like Coke get angry when an industry analyst predicts that Pepsi will have a good quarter? If an analyst says that Dreamworks is going to have a bad year, do film fans rage because the analyst, by doing his job, has actually covertly sought to upset them?
C'mon people.
He's the man that will steer your buisness straight into brankruptcy. Remember his prediction that the PS3 would win this generation? And his annual prediction of a Wii HD?
Frankly, I like to assume the things we quote him saying are not his professional advice, but things he let out simply to get more coverage (free advertising!) by game journalists. If he was really as bad as he's made out to be, then no one in their right mind would use him.
Agreed.
But not as much as I love you. Been watching Cosmos on my Netflix instant queue. Brilliant stuff.
BTW, I thought you were dead? Are you a zombie?
If you listen to the guy talk and his reasoning behind all his predictions it is really logical and he has a very good idea of how electronics work and how they cost as well with games.
Sure a lot of it seems common sense to you but for most investors it is not.
But I do think hes annoying. And is wrong most of the time.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. THAT'S RICH.
everyone on wall street would be fired.
Sooooo, 10 million copies then!
I don't think it shocking to see it surpass 10 million in just 2009, then maybe even surpass 15 million next year and I even dare say get pretty close to 20 million though I guess that might be a stretch.
"He works in the financial sector, not on an internet message board. If you fuck up "most of the time" (say at least 50% of the time), you will lose your job, and they will find someone who's better at it than you."
I may be a simple person without much book learnin' but there were some pretty BIG fuck ups in the financial sector about a year ago and I don't think any of dem rich folks paid a whole darn lot for it.