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Profoundly blurry pictures and hearsay – as far as the PSP2 goes that’s as concrete as it gets for now, but the evidence is seemingly more than enough for outspoken US analyst Michael Pachter to write off the machine before it’s even revealed. I think the PSP was dead on …
Read More »Move/Kinect shortages questioned
Supplies of both Xbox 360 Kinect and PlayStation Move are not as short as either Microsoft or Sony would have you believe, US analyst Michael Pachter has claimed. Last week Sony stated that it had misjudged the demand for the stand-alone Move controllers” and that we have a catch-up problem …
Read More »Activision refutes premium COD claims once again
Are we going to be charging for multiplayer? The answer is no.” Those are the words of Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg. The comments come after analyst Michael Pachter yesterday outlined a detailed road map of how he thinks Activision will gradually roll out a number of premium options spanning …
Read More »Premium COD multiplayer resurfaces
He’s been on the bandwagon for some time now, and once again analyst Michael Pachter has declared his belief that Activision will introduce a premium paid-for element for Call of Duty online. The analyst now claims that Activision decided not to unveil the service prior to the release of the …
Read More »Pachter cools premium COD claims
Having repeatedly predicted over the course of 2010 that Activision was preparing to announce a premium addition to its online Call of Duty multiplayer offering, analyst Michael Pachter has now said he doesn’t expect the announcement to arrive until some time in 2011. As a result, Pachter’s firm Wedbush Morgan …
Read More »Online multiplayer driving sales decline
The legions of fans continuing the play the online segments of titles such as Modern Warfare 2, Bad Company 2, Gears of War 2, Halo 3 and FIFA 10 remains the main reason why the global games industry continues to suffer year-on-year sales declines, according to analyst Michael Pachter. Furthermore, …
Read More »Analysts differ over Kinect pricing
Two leading games analyst have come out on either side of the divide in the debate surrounding Microsoft’s 130 RRP for Kinect. The Kinect bundle costs only $100 more than the cost of a standalone console, so they can afford to sell Kinect for $100,” Michael Pachter told CVG. The …
Read More »Pachter predicts PSP 2 E3 reveal
It was on, then it was off again – now industry analyst Michael Pachter has come out and stated that he believes Sony WILL reveal a proper successor to the PSP at next week’s trade show. He reckons the new touch-screen handheld will join a subscription-based PSN service, the Move …
Read More »Pachter predicts PSP 2 E3 reveal
It was on, then it was off again – now industry analyst Michael Pachter has come out and stated that he believes Sony WILL reveal a proper successor to the PSP at next week’s trade show. He reckons the new touch-screen handheld will join a subscription-based PSN service, the Move …
Read More »Natal isnt for gaming community
Despite previous assertions from Microsoft that it’s upcoming Xbox 360 peripheral Natal is very much for the hardcore gamer as well as the casual market, Michael Pachter has claimed that simply isn’t the case. Microsoft isn’t concerned about the gaming community with Natal, they’re concerned about the gaming community’s mothers …
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