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Michael Pachter Predicts PS5/Project Scarlett Prices, GameStop's Fall, and the Future of Streaming

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"The man of many headlines returns. Famed analyst and host of the Pachter Factor, Michael Pachter, joins the 1099 once again to discuss the shaky future of GameStop after its stock value plummets, what the future of game streaming looks like for Google Stadia, Microsoft's XCloud, and even PlayStation, and what prices we can expect for next-gen hardware like the PS5 and Xbox Scarlett. If you want all the business talk you can handle, you've found it."

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prankster1011786d ago

And then there's the talk in small print of the Switch becoming irrelevant at the end of next year.

Nintendo had a nice run...

Neonridr1786d ago

Nintendo will never be irrelevant. They do their own thing. They aren't getting caught up in the pissing match between the other two. People will continue to buy their hardware because if there is one thing they do well is that they make fun games.

Neonridr1786d ago

@rokkbrin - the Wii U still had some fun games, regardless if the hardware didn't sell. Much like people say the Vita isn't a complete failure as well.

Sophisticated_Chap1785d ago

If Nintendo had created another console, with the same results as the WiiU, they would have been in huge trouble financially. They are lucky that the Switch took off the way it did. Its tue though, that you have to give them full credit for reinventing themselves once again. It will be interesting to see what they come up with next.

gangsta_red1785d ago

"the wii u say's hi."

How does that even make sense considering the immensely successful follow up of the Switch?

TheHateTheyGive1785d ago

They left the dedicated home console business and went handheld.

Edito1785d ago

Not fun for me... last nintendo console I owned was the 64 because of MK Trilogy was best there (I'm not going to count the Wii) Played switch once or twice and it's not for me...

Neonridr1785d ago

@Edito - that's cool, it's not for everyone. We all have different tastes.

Knushwood Butt1785d ago

So why is Miyamoto desperately trying to defend Nintendo's VR and online offerings?

Neonridr1785d ago

@Knushwood - because some people out there feel the need to compare and criticize Nintendo for everything they do. Labo VR for example was nothing more than just a novelty, it wasn't mean to compete with PSVR or the PC VR offerings. Just something to try out.

nucky641785d ago (Edited 1785d ago )

really neonridr? gamecube sold 22 million. N64 sold around 35 million. that's 57 million in 2 gens. the ps1 sold 104 million....... ps2 sold 157 million. the wiiu was a dud. the wii sold because it had a new gimmick with motion control but that fad passed.
sure, nintendo does it's own thing - but i wouldn't say they've had the best run of over the last 20+ years.
edit - really, it's their handhelds that have kept them "relevant" but now they face stiff competition in that market. i think it'll be interesting to see what they do next year when the other 2 launch new consoles. i think they'll have to step it up some and not continue to make lesser powered, cheap-looking equipment. "doing their own thing", in that regard, won't work with all the new tech that's available with consoles and smartphones. they'll HAVE to start competing at some point.

TheUndertaker851784d ago

Nintendo printed trading cards longer than they've produced anything electronic. They also ran brothels and cab companies.

Nintendo has become irrelevant numerous times already and all signs point to them doing it again.

Knushwood Butt1784d ago

@ Neon

Labo VR is just a novelty? I'd like to hear that from Miyamoto.

Neonridr1784d ago

@Knushwood - Nintendo didn't suddenly just add VR support to Labo to be an actual means of competition with actual VR. Considering everything is just an experience or a short demo, how can you even begin to compare the two? One is cardboard that uses the Switch, one is an actual headset full of tech.

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quent1785d ago

The Nintendo brand is too big to become irrelevant, they are to videogames what Disney are to animation

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spwittbold1785d ago

No-one is "too big," to become irrelevant.
Big players become irrelevant all the time.

UltraNova1785d ago (Edited 1785d ago )

Both a full on handheld and a "Pro" Switch models are coming, so its your comment that's irrelevant.

TheUndertaker851784d ago

Source please? I don’t think you have them as there is zero details about the new SKUs. For all people know it could be nothing more than a “Switch XL” or “2Switch” situation. Upgraded screen size on one with higher cost. Lite version for those looking to spend less.

Plus as Nintendo did with the 3DS line it will be entirely possible that future Switch games programmed around a higher end model will not work on the current model or any lite revisions.

UltraNova1784d ago (Edited 1784d ago )

https://www.polygon.com/201...

@theundertaker85.

How's that for proof?

TheUndertaker851784d ago

Where's the "XL" listed in that again? 🤔

Plus I literally called it one to one before that story was even posted. As everyone knows how Nintendo handled 3DS.

Losing features going to Lite makes Lite irrelevant. The base Switch will also be irrelevant with the launch of a XL model as XL will likely have titles that only work on it. As that's what Nintendo does.

I think what you meant to say honestly is at the time of your post you had zero proof. Even still the way Nintendo handles electronics lately shows why Nintendo themselves make their own products irrelevant.

Scatpants1785d ago

Why, is there going to be a new best handheld ever? I'd like one that plays all my Steam games but that Smach Zero is looking like vapor hardware.

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PhantomS421785d ago

This hack is still around? I completely forgot about this guy. I'm sure he is wrong about everything as usual.

harmny1785d ago

he may be wrong about everything as the gaming community thinks. but the guy makes hundreds of thousands of dollars being "wrong" all the time. sounds like a pretty nice job to me

Neonridr1785d ago

basically whatever he says will happen, just go with the opposite to be safe :P

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Orionsangel1785d ago

He calls us babies. He just loves yelling at clouds.

RizBiz1785d ago

He wouldn't have a job if he was wrong about everything. He knows the industry better than you ever will.

PhantomS421785d ago

Have you ever actually looked at his track record? Majority of the time he is completely wrong.

indysurfn1785d ago

Ummmmm his REAL job is not to publish what he really thinks to the public. But instead save that for his direct PAYING customers. If he gets the public to sell a stock, his clients can then buy that stock cheap! If he gets the public to buy a stock his clients can then sell that stock at a higher price!

He is NOT your adviser, unless your one of his clients!

traumadisaster1785d ago

Ive watched his weekly video for years, I like his insight even if I don’t agree. He’s an insider and does have some good takes on things.

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Platformgamer1785d ago (Edited 1785d ago )

this baffoon is still around?
his predictions are 90% false and the ones he gets are like the obvious ones that i can predict too ahaha

Tross1785d ago

Apparently you don't even need to be right most of the time to do his job. I wonder how to get into that field. It seems to pay well, and all you really need to do is throw out armchair conjecture periodically.

harmny1785d ago (Edited 1785d ago )

sure. i guess rich investors are stupid they seem to like to throw money at morons that never get anything right

DillyDilly1785d ago

People here loves this guy when he makes positive Playstation predictions lol

Platformgamer1785d ago

but the "positive playstation predictions" are still obvious ones

Sm00thNinja1784d ago

100 dilly. I was just looking back at an article where people were defending him making statements about PSVR that were positive. Pick and choose people.

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ryuuzakibjorn1785d ago

Why is this guy still being posted? Pretty much every time his "predictions" end up incorrect and he just wastes everybody's time.

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Neil Druckmann clarifies true intent of new Naughty Dog game comments

Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.

just_looken2d ago

He can take dog shit put it in a oven with seasoning then call it waistland cookies the sony fans will pay $40 a cookie give them a medal of cooking.

No mater what trash this sobs puts out/talks about it will sell.

The true fact in the 8 years sense uncharted 4 his first time in the main seat to a point all this "amazing" team did was get 2 dudes to fuck in a van then destroy a franchise they never created.

But being a port studio they are decent at they should keep in there lane at being just that a glorified port studio.

fr0sty2d ago

Salty Bots... gotta love it.

just_looken2d ago

@frosty

Over what? naught dog under his command is a glorified port team tlou2 was mostly tlou 1 asset's with the same game play loop but forced a trans down your throat.

I would gladly help pay for this blight and his team to get removed from gaming in general.

fr0sty2d ago

Seeing a LGBT person exist in a work of fiction isn't "forcing them down your throat". Nobody is forcing you to play it. Nobody is forcing you to agree with it. If you think that just seeing a LGBT person exist is "force", it sounds like they make you very uncomfortable, and maybe you need to be doing some serious reflecting on exactly why... looks to me like you're suppressing something with all that fear.

just_looken2d ago

@fro

When i think of the last of us i think of a group of survivors crossing the apocalypse wasteland with a growing bond between 2 people that end up with Joel making ellie his new daughter.

Then you fire up the 2nd one bang joel is dead oh that comic series? bang dead

Oh you want to continue all that we grew in the first one? na f that toss it in the trash

Now here is a trans woman so strong superboy would blush go out there kill all what made tlou1 then halfway get a forced sex scene that you can not skip between 2 dudes.

The gameplay? just like the first game the combat/backpack system crafting sytem? 0 changes/improvements.

I could go on but lets face it they copy pasted that tlou 1 assets bin a shit ton of times.

There is nothing on the box or the ads or anything before the game that said you would going to spend most of the game controlling a new trans character that has no ties to anything of the first game the only existence was to kill what the first game made.

Oh but hey there is a mp mode coming out before 2022 wait what is that? oh we made it its own game then cancelled it now go but the game again as we port it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

mkis0072d ago (Edited 2d ago )

What has Straley or Henig released since they left ND? Not a thing! stop scapegoating! Which of them is credited with co-writing a majorly successful show?

just_looken2d ago

@mkis007

You bring up Bruce Straley really? someone that gave us 4 generations of amazing games and was there in the creation of 4 legendary franchises but was tossed in the trash for the pos niel druckmann not 7? years ago

So yeah in those 7? years you right all he has done is get 2 awards one is a game award for a puzzle game he made oh boy right like for fuck sake's all niel has done is one game that was a overhyped fan boy orgasm underneath all that ps jizz was just a typical 5/10 game.

Then you drag Amy Hennig that poor woman was also kicked out then became this century's Brendan Fraser with her sexual misconduct information coming out.

We all know how horrible people are treated behind the scenes she might have been sexual attacked groped or something.

So yeah all she did after was battlefield hardline forspoken now that new marvel 1945 game but hey Brendan Fraser was a great actor till he also said he was sexually attacked just now he is allowed back in no doubt she also had to take a leave of absence out and or was forced out on ice.

Man there are way to many out there that look at niel at the new gaming jesus when all he had done is some work on uncharted 4 then tlou2

Oh also the tvhshow? for real all they did was use stuff from the 2013 game its like saying GOT was a 10/10 but never watching past season 3

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@mkis007

That's highly unfair to them both

Amy Hennig got messed around working on projects that got cancelled by the publishers (EA) and then ended up on a awful game (Forspoken) where you had 4 other writers working on it which is just a recipe for disaster. She is now working on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Not her fault she was pushed out of NaughtyDog, something both Nolan North and Richard McGonagle have both said in interviews.

Bruce Straley left after burn out, the rest of the story we don't know and will never know just like what happened with Amy Hennig. He decided to take a break and wasn't sure if he wanted to come back to gaming however he had an idea he wanted to make so he founded Wildflower Interactive, a smaller studio where they are currently working on a new game.

Tacoboto2d ago

@the obvious stain of a commenter

The trans character wasn't Abby. Try playing Part 2 instead of gatekeeping what you think Part 1 was about and meant.

Maybe try watching the show while you're at it, because you're terribly off with your opinion on that too

MajorLazer2d ago

Naughty Dog is better than all the MS studios put together.

derek2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

@just he has been behind 2 of the greatest games ever made. Tlou2 was easily the best non-vr game made last gen. Losers just can't get over Joel's death, mixed with the usual console war nonsense. The fact that you so casually call him a sob shows how deranged some gamers have become about Drunkmann.

derek2d ago

@frosty, for people like Just, including anyone that can be categorized as being a minority in any kind of media is "forcing it down his throat " lol. I to don't care for poor "checking box" inclusion for inclusion sake but that was not the case with tlou2.

fr0sty2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

The pathetic part about it is, you can tell just_looken never even played TLOU, because that was the game where Ellie's sexuality was first brought to light... No "that was forced down our throats" to be said about that.

Only terrified folks in the closet that use their hatred as cover from outing themselves fear LGBT people that much. They exist. They will exist in all aspects of life, including popular media. Get over it.

just_looken1d 16h ago

@all

Once again you drag out something like its a big win

Here is my old channel a clip of me playing TLOU on ps3
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Search my channel for more clips

Proof its my channel? look at this profiles banner that is 7yrs old then look at other vids on that channel like my bf3 clips to see my psn id. But knowing this group that is way to much work.

Also elle being a lesbian is another trump card? one dlc is all we got of that a dlc that took over a year to be tossed out.

Rainbowcookie1d 14h ago

Hey at least we have cookies to eat 😄

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Rangerman12082d ago

Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.

anast2d ago

No need to bow down, Stan your ground. The AI comments were gross though.

S2Killinit2d ago

Pretty excited as I read these. I just cant wait to see what ND is up to.

Export2d ago

put a chick in it and make her gay !

shadowknight2032d ago

Next they need a diverse couple, and perhaps some climate activists

StormSnooper2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I would love that if only to piss off all the lunatics. Lol

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Naughty Dog Boss Neil Druckmann Says AI Will 'Revolutionize' Development

Druckmann claims the tech could 'push the boundaries of storytelling in games.'

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Jin_Sakai4d ago

I’m more interested in what else he said.

“Neil Druckmann says new Naughty Dog title could ‘redefine mainstream perceptions of gaming’

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H94d ago

It will be something like "we erased gameplay all together it's just a movie now"

purple1014d ago

every time naughty dog make a game, you play it and get the feeling "this is not possible'

from the boulder running towards you in crash, on ps1,
to the massive open world of jak and daxter, on ps2,
to the QuickTime events sequences of uncharted on ps3/4

and now we will see what they do with ps5,

H94d ago

Press X for doubt at "PS5"

-Foxtrot4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Arrogant asshole who sniffs his own farts bigs up next game…sounds like typical PR to me

You know what I find interesting? Almost every site reporting this as the main title where the REAL interesting bit of the interview is Neil praising AI and saying it will be used to help push story, characters, dialogue and more.

It’s super shitty to big up AI especially when it comes to story telling and other creative elements.

senorfartcushion4d ago

Just because someone says this type of stuff, it doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to be good news.

You can say this about microtransactions. MXTs revolutionised the gaming industry.

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Levii_924d ago

Geez how full of themselves are these guys.

Einhander19724d ago

He also said it has "ethical issues we need to address" but of course that doesn't get the clicks.

CrimsonWing694d ago

I’m all for it. Cuts the time to make a game. Look, Hellblade 2 took 5 years to make, if AI can do that in half the time, as a consumer, I support it.

Chard3d ago

Things will get far sloppier brother

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The Witcher 3 REDkit Q&A - CDPR & Yigsoft Confirm Steam Workshop Support; Further Changes Planned

CD Projekt RED and Yigsoft have launched The Witcher 3 REDkit on PC. We interviewed both studios to discuss the release of these mod tools.

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