If you read about videogames on the internet then you've probably heard of Michael Pachter.
That's because when something happens in the games industry, people ring him up or send him an email. He's one of our pre-eminent talking heads.
In his role as analyst for investment banking company Wedbush Morgan Securities, he also writes numerous reports on companies like Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard, advising investors on whether it's worth taking a punt on them.
As part of his research he also gets to sit in meeting rooms (probably not the windowless variety) with executives like John Riccitiello and listen to them outline why their company is worth investing in, which means he gets to find out about what's actually going on way earlier than most of us do, too.
But who is Michael Pachter? What does he do every day? Who cares?
Eurogamer decided to find out.
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.