When big financial news is breaking in the gaming industry, Mtv look to Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter to break things down. Mtv caught him on the phone today while he was having brunch at a yacht club (the same yacht club he was last brunching at when the Activision Blizzard deal was announced).
Who is this EA-Take Two deal good for? What would happen with sports and the cost of sports games? And why does he think Rockstar won't necessarily be a part of the deal?
Pachter broke it down for us.
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Golden Axe is a great game I enjoyed it on the SMS, Genesis and in the arcade. Great game but it truly was a quarter eater back in the day. I wish Sega could get the rights to the arcade port of Moonwalker another great arcade game I enjoyed. Collect so many monkeys and become Robo Michael lol.
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With so many games fighting for players' attention and interest losing out over time, time sink games are at risk of eventually losing steam.
It was worrisome to begin with.
It's a niche genre with only a handful of hits that can stand the test of time.
I like the sound of that!! I will for sure never support these gaas games.
Sony must be shocked at gamer's reaction, making them cancel a few of these and hopefully go back to the good heavy hitters they had us used to..
now bring on that PSPro reveal and show us some SP 1st party awesomeness.
It's pretty ridiculous.
Imagine having a breadth of data at your disposal to see the statistically low success rate of these games, only to be laser focused on the exceptional case studies.
Only a few will catch on. You need a perfect storm to be successful in GaaS and a bit of luck on top of that. But a potential cash cow will keep them trying and some will go out of business because of it.
Helldivers 2 manages just fine…
Keep production costs low… don’t just make custscenes until the mechanics and enemies are perfected first.
Make so much content that you can drip extra content for years, and the game already feels complete without them.
Most importantly: make weapons, enemies, levels, and mechanics that will stand the test of 1000 hours. This might require more devs embracing procedurally generated leveled, which I think separates Helldivers 2 from Destiny’s repetitiveness.
GTA series will lose most of its mature content similar to thrill kill. 2k Sports would be gone, causing EA to have a monopoly of sports games. EA won't give Betsheda time to make games, probably going to force them to make a Elder Scrolls game every year. 2k Boston will be making bioshock clones over, and over again until they are stale. So thanks again EA ruins like they did with pc gaming, now console gaming.
Hopefully SONY buys them first.
I think that`s INEVITABLE.
Pachter? OMGZORZ!!! He's always right.
/sarcasm
Seriously Sony and Microsoft don't care, and will be makign the move on R* once they become independant. I suspect MS will make a move, becuase Sony is too nonchalant. Unless they pull their finger out. It also depends on R*, and whether the transaction in question is a takeover or not. Becuase R* may well want to stay independant for a while.
We can all hope however, that our respective consoles receive the deal.
God please don't let this happen, all they have to do is hold on till GTAVI releases to get in the green.
If EA got Take-Two then all it would need is Activion then all American companies would be under one roof & this would most definitely give EA enough power to make their own console to take Sony & Microsoft out of the Video Game business which would then force the rest of the developers to move to EA & then next gen would feature one console