The current generation of game consoles could constitute the last "console cycle" as we know it, says Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter.
In a massive 210-page report entitled "Money for Nothing: How Ancillary Revenues Can Extend the Console Cycle," the widely-read industry pundit and financial guru pontificates on most every facet of the videogame industry in 2009. It's a ponderous read, especially compared to Pachter's brief investor notes, but it represents the analyst's broad view of the business as it stands today.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Article aside, I've always wondered how digital downloads would impact this console life cycle. Games that last gen couldn't be fixed or upgraded via patching are fully capable of doing so now. Also firmware updates keep our respective consoles up to date with the newest software and features.
That said I think Patcher, as usual, is wrong again. Technology progresses so quickly these days that in the next 5 years there will surely be some new gaming/computing tech to be taken advantage of. Thus ensuring that another console will arrive on our doorsteps around that time, if not a bit sooner.
firstly what he's proposing sounds like the days of the 32x, sega cd, the n64's 64DD!! :-) and a few others that won't come to me, all of these we're failers even though they added something to the console that couldn't be done without it.
Things like memory via usb or memory card would be good. With modern day firmware updates we're already sort of getting the idea of gradual console upgrades rather than new models every couple of years. firmware updates are allowing the current generation change how it is represented with greater performance, more services, greater means to socalize. Firmware updates will never fail (unless they brick your console :-/) as the cost in production is pennies compared to a new addon or periferal and the majority of your users will all experiance the benefits boosting the consoles abilities rather than opportunities making it more appealing by the month rather than year or so. I know M$ haven't addopted this yet but they did do a small update recently so obviousle could take up more frequent updates if they chose if the ps3 creates a significant gap because of purely getting features out quicker via regular updates.
this has been posted before and it is relatively known pachter is an idiot
more often than not his "analysis" is wrong
do some research on his past predictions and see what he has come up with
he is guessing more than your local weather man, at least they have science