Pach chimes in on all the NX news, explains where all the Pokemon GO money is going, shares his favorite gaming schwag, and more!
Who had strippers on their booth?
He's just saying that iterations will be BC only to the last preceding iteration.Man Pachters responses to the questions regarding iterative hardware are confusing.
I think he's trying to say that the current consoles(PS4/XBone) won't be able to play games made for the Neo/Scorpio successors but what he actually keeps saying is that the Neo/Scorpio successors won't be able to play any games released for the PS4/Xbone to date.
I can't tell if he's confusing the two things, they've somehow merged as the same thing in his mind, or he's' saying exactly what he means.
He's just saying that iterations will be BC only to the last preceding iteration.
That doesn't make sense if the consoles are going to be iterative and have the same architecture. Backwards compatibility should be near 100% going forward minus an odd game here and there.. On mobile apps don't stop working after 2 new iphones come out. Sure at some point some apps have new performance issues and other problems several phones down the line but but it's not like you can only buy iphone 6 and 5s apps, everything iphone 5 and under no longer works or whatever.
Umm.... what a complete 180 from neogaf. I thought you people haTed this guy cause he would say bad things about Sony. What happened? Why is he cool now?
Exactly, I think he's confused. There shouldn't be -theoretically- any Neo exclusive games going forward, thus, a backwards-compatible PS5 would be able to play all PS4 games (vanilla and Neo). Also, I think his prediction that Neo will be released in spring 2017 does not make sense. Sony would lose the year advantage over Scorpio which could be pretty significant. A $399 Neo with a considerable power boost over the original released this holiday season would be very attractive.
Pachter sure doesn't seem to know what he's talking about with regard to Neo.
He thinks Neo is coming March / April or May 2017 for $500 or $600.
LOL.
Ah, I forgot the PF ep is from about 1 week ago.
Pachter sure doesn't seem to know what he's talking about with regard to Neo.
He thinks Neo is coming March / April or May 2017 for $500 or $600.
LOL.
That's an interesting episode.
I difinitelly agree with that the console days are counted, eventually everything will be a PC/phone conected to the TV. Play Anywhere and Windows Store may be the livesaver for Xbox but they aren't pushing hard enough. MS should improve and get more third party games to their store aswell as being more strict with the game they finance going to steam or other platforms.
Nintendo has their IP.How is that going to work for Sony and Nintendo in the future?
They don't have a PC OS like MS to leverage.
Why isnt gaming more mainstream? Is corporate espionage behind all the leaks? When is the best time to invest in video game stocks? What does Pach think of retro games and remasters? All this and more in this week's episode!
Will games go above $60? Should free-to-play games cater to the whales? Do new franchises or sequels make a stock a better buy? What games will sell poorly this holiday season? All this and more in this week's episode!
There have always been people who watched or listened to him. He was a regular guest on Gametrailers' Bonus Round show, then he had his own segment, and is/was a GAF member. He's frankly the only financial analyst in the industry to show himself. So of course some people would find him cool. And AFAIK, most of the hate comes from his consistently wrong predictions on Nintendo specifically. He was never quite able, much like many people in the games industry, to acknowledge and understand Nintendo's strategy back in the DS and especially Wii days. I would have expected some hardcore gamers to fall for fallacies like "casuals are fickle, the Wii is a fad, the technology is too weak, watch it fail any day now!", but I wouldn't have expected actual professionals, whose job is to actually analyze and predict trends, to follow the same line of thinking.
His perspective has always been that of a financial analyst with little regard for or comprehension of the actual video games business and its history. Like other analysts, as long as manufacturers and big players kept following the same paths of making hardware better and software more expensive, he had no problem predicting things based on data and calculations. But as soon as someone throws a wrench in the system - be it Nintendo or someone else - and the business consensus is called into question, his analyses, and many other analysts' predictions become wildly off the mark.
I may be remembering wrong here - please correct me if so -, but isn't he or his firm at the source of the GAF meme of a crazy dude drawing a nonsensical graph showing the Wii failing and the PS360 rising? At the very least, his thoughts on sales trajectories last gen reflected all the absurdly wrong financial analyses we got at the time. Ah, fun times...
What happens to collector’s editions when everything is digital? How do the finances work with game-based movies? Is cloud gaming the future? All this and more in this week's episode.
Pachter Factor hits the big 4-0 and the entire episode is dedicated to questions regarding the PlayStation 4 Pro.
Yeah, because it's been taken back.
Weird, I just finished watching and didn't see anything wrong that it needed to be taken down.
Yeah, because it's been taken back.
It was interesting his take on the UHD player.
Did they change anything from the old version?
What's up with the Super Mario Run deal? Is Zelda next? Could mobile success lead Nintendo away from consoles? Is Microsoft turning the tide of the console war?
Is another video game industry crash on the way? Does a game’s length impact its sales? Is Sony screwed in a console-free future? Is mobile gaming on the downswing?
Will the hardware refresh cycle continue? Does Microsoft really care about Xbox? Do most adults still think gaming is for kids? Is Mad Catz doomed?
Every time I watch these videos there are only just a few thousand views. Are they really producing this for such low eye counts? How is Siftd making money anyways? The service just seems bonkers
Just noticed it's a one year anniversary, which makes the numbers even more embarrassing
I like Pachter, I don't always agree with what he says, but I'm not going to dismiss him and call him a prick because he has said something about a game/developer/publisher that I like.
Pachter Factor Episode 45: Nintendo Switch
This week's episode is dedicated entirely to questions regarding Nintendo's new console!
Pachter also apologizes for his recent comments regarding Mr Satoru Iwata.