I’m not even trying to look up anything on this Piscatella guy. He just ‘appears’ in every news article like Pachter. And also, like Pachter, he comments on television entertainment.
To those who do not remember, Michael Pachter was the infamously wrong video game analyst. He also loved the limelight and would jump on every interview. Of course, he was on the wrong side of the DS and Wii back in 2004-2006 respectively. But he also kept declaring DOOM for Netflix yet Netflix is not only still around but the only profitable streaming service out there!
So now we get this Piscatella guy. From this article, he says,
A few factors have caused this dam to break (outside of Nintendo, which is still stubbornly plugging the leak and making games for its systems exclusively). “Exclusives matter most when trying to encourage consumers to purchase your video game console over the other company’s console,” says Mat Piscatella, executive director and video game industry analyst at market research company Circana. “This was far more important when consoles were the primary way people engaged with video games.” Now, committed console gamers are aging, and younger generations aren’t enthused about buying expensive hardware when they have computers, phones, and tablets. “It’s the wider adoption of mobile/tablet/PC, and maybe eventually cloud, that is lessening the importance of exclusive games,” Piscatella continues. “Consumer tastes and expectations have evolved, and convenience to content has become more important than loyalty to a console.”
There is zero interest in understanding Nintendo from the business sense. Nintendo simply is ‘stubborn’ and making exclusives because it wants to be ‘stubborn’. What a joke article.
Piscatella doesn’t understand the purpose of the video game console. For first party companies, the reason for the first party game is to give purpose to the hardware, not simply a competitive advantage because not all the consoles are competing. Nintendo is an integrated hardware and software game maker. It’s like asking Apple to port the Mac OS to PCs. It defeats the purpose of Apple being an integrated hardware/software developer if they were to do that.
Piscatella must be avoiding or ignoring all the data on Nintendo hardware and software. Now, I have not seen official sales numbers, but I am under the impression that the Nintendo Switch is a sales success and may, in fact, be the best selling game console ever made. And looking at the titles of the Switch software, I am assuming that many young people are buying and playing the software.
When Piscatella is generalizing, he only is talking about Sony and Microsoft consoles which, undoubtedly, skew older. But he doesn’t even place the Nintendo data in his analysis of consoles because it blows up his analysis. The Nintendo Switch is hot stuff with the younger generations. Too bad for Microsoft and Sony.
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