From IndustryGamers:
With all that said, I think we’ll see Nintendo maintain price until early next year, and I think we’ll see Walmart implement a similar promotion to last year’s $50 gift card with the purchase of a Wii. That suggests that sales will pick up dramatically, as the effective price for a console, two pieces of software and Wii Motion Plus will be $149.99.
The reason why Nintendo doesn’t want to do a price cut is because the last one didn’t work. What boosted sales was software specifically Super Mario Brothers 5. Pachter is either trying to distort or, more likely, having a childish tantrum by repeating ‘Wal-Mart deal’ for the increase in Wii sales. Yet, Wii was selling out at non-Wal-Mart stores.
Pachter is doing his hardest to deflect the fact that Mario 5 boosted Wii sales like a rocket. For the reason why, I will leave that to the reader.
I know that I sound like a broken record, but I remain convinced that the “core” gamer is spending an incredible amount of time playing multiplayer online games, and the vacuum created by all of this time spent can only be filled by superior content.
In Pachter-Land, video game sales decline because the games are too good. Yeah. Does he really think investors are so stupid to believe that?
The reason why gamers are buying and sticking to a few games is not because the games are ‘so good’, but because most games today suck.It is better to replay a good game than to play a bad game even if it is new.
That’s why I think that the publishers will start to charge for premium content–out of desperation from seeing games that are good but don’t sell.
Pachter does not ‘think’ this. He was told it was going to happen from his buddies working at the publishing companies. So he says it as if he came up with it to advance his own reputation (what is the purpose of talking to the public but that?).
Again, playing the broken record, that’s why I thought we would have seen a Wii HD by now–consumers are ready for it, and slowing Wii sales reflects that.
Again, no mention of the Wii software. No analyst has yet to point to the ‘User Generated content’ direction Nintendo took.
Bad software means bad hardware sales. Good software means good hardware sales. Everyone knows this. Pachter isn’t stupid. He is shilling for some third party company who has a financial interest in a Wii HD so they can port their games to three systems instead of two.
Remember, you get what you pay for. There is no such thing as a ‘free’ analysis from an analyst. What you get with these interviews and all is just marketing. Often, the analyst is just spewing stuff (that has no relation to the analysis his company sells) just to market himself.
