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Pachter: Nintendo first party titles 'vastly superior' to Microsoft, Sony |
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Analyst Micahel Pachter has responded to comments made by Xbox CFO Dennis Durkin.
Last week, Durkin claimed that Microsoft's first party output was better than what Nintendo and Sony were doing.
"But certainly we think first party is an important tool and you can't dispute titles like Forza, which has consistently come out on a repeated cadence and sold multi-million units. You can't dispute things like Fable, which again, on a very consistent pace, has come out and sold 2 and 3 million units a pop. And now new titles, like Kinect Sports, which has come out and sold over 3 million units. So we are, not only building existing IP and incubating around titles like Halo and others, but really building new IP in new areas. And that's going to be core to us... to build those experiences and monetize those," Durkin had said.
Pachter, like many others, was quick to disagree with Durkin.
"Xbox CFO Dennis Durkin is a great guy, and is paid to be loyal to his Microsoft family. I think Nintendo's first-party content is vastly superior to either other console manufacturer's, and don't think that either Sony or Microsoft would really dispute that," Pachter said today.
Quality is purely subjective -- even though Super Mario Galaxy 2 is the highest rated game this generation -- so speaking to the sales side of things, just as Durkin was, first party Nintendo games outsell Microsoft first party games by a longshot. Mario Kart Wii is a 20-plus million seller, and it's still going strong today, three years after its release.
via CVG
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Sony and Microsoft focus mainly on making a good platform for other people to make great games. Nintendo, it seems, just cares about making a platform and selling their own games. Nintendo makes most of their money by sells of games. (Mario & Pokemon, etc.)
Sony and Microsoft do have games they call their own, but don't focus only on those games. That's why you see soooo many Mario games year after year, but don't see the same repeated titles from Microsoft or Sony.
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Good games!!
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however, first party software on the Nintendo portables is really stronger than on the PSP - hopefully that will change with the PS Vita
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Just because its a game kids can play, doesn't mean its piss easy.
Old school games are so much harder than any game today, first Zelda is giving me such a hard time right now. And the first Mario use to give me such a hard time.
Real skill was needed, a true gamer knows it. Not these 'hardcore' wannabes, pfft thinking they the true gamers.
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