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Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has said Battlefield 3 has no chance in taking on and beating this year’s iteration of Call of Duty.

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Michael Pachter’s said that a release of Madden NFL 12 release after thanksgiving would “impact” sales of the game.

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Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter has predicted that Microsoft will announce a further 360 price drop at E3 in June.

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With the announcement for NGP from Sony this morning, three industry analysts have weighed-in on the news: Mike Hickey of Janco Partners, Lazard Capital Markets’ Colin Sebastian, and Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter. So did John Carmack, technical director at id Software.

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Wedbush Morgan analyst boss Michael Pachter has laid the boot into Nintendo in the wake of this week’s 3DS launch announcements, saying the Kyoto firm was missed its chance with a next-gen Wii.

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Analyst Michael Pachter believes a drop in console prices will help counter the current financial slump in the games industry.

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Industry analyst Michael Pachter has stated that during the month of December, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 bundles with Kinect outsold Sony’s PS3 Move bundles 5:1.

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When hacker George (Geohot) Hotz was served with a temporary restraining order early in the evening of January 11, he had to have a good idea what was coming. So too must the other defendants on the stark legal papers prepared by Sony Computer Entertainment’s legal team – Hector Cantero, Sven Peter and 100 yet-to-be-named persons. One does not thumb their nose at mega-corporations lightly.

After a torrid fortnight, where PlayStation 3’s system security – namely its ability to determine whether code running is legitimate or not – has been laid bare by hacker group fail0verflow, Sony’s finally made its move.

Here, VG247 presents a report breaking down the the implications of the PS3 hack, what’s come already, what’s happening now, and who the real losers are in this complete fiasco.

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Following Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter’s opinion that PSP2 is “dead on arrival” thanks to “saturation on the handheld market,” Relentless boss Andrew Eades has said he believes a hardcore games handheld is still a relevant proposition.

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Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has issued hardware sales estimates for America in December, claiming 360 outsold PS3 by more than two-to-one.

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EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich and Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter have praised Kinect’s performance following news from CES that it’s shipped 8 million units since its November launch.

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Wedbush Morgan has again predicted that Activision is set to monetise Call of Duty multiplayer, saying in a newsletter that it believes the publisher is about to announce a “second tier” to the phenomenally popular pastime.

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Once upon a time, the Tony Hawk series was one of the biggest in videogames. If you listen to Metacritic, the Tony Hawk Pro Skater titles are some of the best games of all time, and every one of them was a runaway bestseller. At the beginning of the last decade – just after the release of Pro Skater 2 – the franchise was generating $250 million a year, according to figures from analyst Wedbush Morgan.

Last year, the year of Tony Hawk: Ride, franchise sales were closer to $100m. This year, Activision’s trying – failing – to flog $120 fake skateboards to children, whilst Activision publicly defends its abysmal sales.

What on earth happened, and why, when Activision is culling the likes of Bizarre Creations, won’t Activision finally shoot the Hawk?

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Welcome to the future. It involves waving your arms at your television.

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Michael Patcher has said Sony and Microsoft are both bending the truth when it comes to the availability of Move and Kinect, in order to great a demand for sales.

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The NPD results for August will see a release on Thursday, and already analysts are weighing-in on what to expect with the US numbers.

One such analyst is Michael Pachter, who has predicted a decline for both hardware and software due to online offerings.

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2K Czech’s long-developer crime action game won’t turn a profit, Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter has said in a note.

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Michael Pachter has said he expects 3DS will cost $249 in the US at launch, with software prices getting an increase from $25 to $29

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Michael Pachter has said online multiplayer will become subscription based as publishers looks for ways to make more money out of the consumer.

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Michael Pachter’s told VG247 that today’s announcement of the new 360 Slim 4Gb Arcade will give Microsoft “room” for a price-cut next year for the just-launched 250Gb model.

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