Michael Pachter Quotes


We believe that Midway's recent share-price weakness is more attributable to a slow down in purchases by its major shareholder than to a downturn in its business. - Michael Pachter


We believe that January sales may have been even worse had Microsoft continued its marketing push, and believe that sell through was helped in part by deep discounting of new releases during the month. January marked the fifth consecutive month of software sales decline, and we expect a return to double-digit sales declines in February, with an accelerating rate of decline in March. - Michael Pachter


We believe that industry sales have been quite weak since Take-Two's late October negative preannouncement, primarily due to consumer malaise and a shortage of Xbox 360 hardware... Given weak November NPD sales and Electronic Arts' and Activision's recent earnings warnings, we believe that Take-Two likely experienced weak sales during the holiday period, as consumers continue to shun current generation games while waiting for next generation consoles. - Michael Pachter


We are optimistic that Microsoft will remedy the supply-demand imbalance in the U.S. in the next two months, as it appears that recent manufacturing capacity will result in greater unit availability later this month. - Michael Pachter


Warcraft is so good and so good-looking that it got this immediate attraction; everybody who would ever consider playing an online game said, 'This is the one. I gotta try it.' And what'll happen is inevitably, like the health club model, after you pay your 30 bucks a month for 3 or 4 months and you only go once a week, you realize it's not worth it and you split. That's what will happen with Warcraft ... I think it's going to roll back to a million. I'm not predicting it's going to happen in three weeks; I'd guess it has a half-life of 6 months to a year. - Michael Pachter


They wouldn't have held a press conference if they didn't have all the components lined up already. - Michael Pachter


They need a capital infusion to grow. - Michael Pachter


They don't have any chance of success. - Michael Pachter


They clearly aren't in the big leagues. They're back in the minors now and we'll see if they can build the business back up. - Michael Pachter


They can manage in a down-3 percent market because they've done it for years... That just means mom-and-pop stores are going to disappear. - Michael Pachter


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