Pachter: Nintendo's success NOT bad for the market |
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In response to Kaufman Bros. Equity Research analyst Todd Mitchell's comments that Nintendo's success will ultimately prove to be bad for the videogame industry, Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter said to GamesIndustry.biz that Mitchell's comments were "naive".Pachter stated that he believes Mitchell's analysis was incomplete. "His conclusion is that Nintendo's success on the GameCube and GBA will translate to future success on the DS and Wii, so he's basing his opinion on a view that Nintendo will capture somewhere around 30 per cent market share on each of its new consoles," said Pachter. "This is naive."
Pachter added that he expects that "Nintendo's first party share will decline from around 30 per cent last cycle to around 20 per cent this cycle, and that many publishers trying to capture market share will succeed."
"THQ has demonstrated that if a third party publisher competes for market share on a Nintendo platform, it can be successful," he said. Pachter points towards Electronic Arts and Ubisoft, two companies that generally ignored Nintendo consoles during the last console cycle but who are now "laser focused on growing market share on both the DS and Wii platforms."
Via GamesIndustry
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Wii's success will divert developers from actually good consoles.
always those ps3-narrow point of view kind of ppl...
open up, man..
It's not a *****ing monopoly, on the market, none of the companies is ever going to acheive that.
Its closer to an Oligopoly than anything else. And anyone with any idea about business knows, when a product comes out in an Oligopoly, its competitors copy it as soon as possible if it works.
All their success means is all 3 next gen consoles will have 3D motion tracking controllers.
just as sony annouced, motion sensors crap on ps3, thanks to nintendo's guts an efforts.
The PS3 already has motion sensing technology in their controllers from what I understand, it just isnt that great. Anyone that has played a Wii (or owns one like myself) knows that its more natural and hella fun to play with the sensing. I consider myself a hardcore gamer and the Wii definitely compliments my collection of PC games, Xbox games, and PS2 games. *NOTE* for you sony fanboys out there, being a one-minded console lover does not classify you as hardcore, it classifies you as naive. Also remember there would not have been a PS1,2, or 3 if nintendo hadnt enlisted sony to develop the failed SNES-CD. So eat it noobs.