Michael Pachter gets his own show, unbuttons his shirt

I've watched it 3 times already...

I just can't stop felling embarassed for him...

It's a guy, with what? 38+ years? 43+? Whatever... And he just has his own show because we hate him and can't stop bashing him on blogs, forums, whatever...

And he tries to act all cool with punchfrases like "We'll see next time in the Attack" or something like that... "Hello fellow babies"? c'mon... wtf is that?

I had some respect for the man... Bonus round? Fine... Interview? Fine... But his own freaking show? He's an analyst for godssake...

Well... gotta wait to see what comes in the next "Attack"...

3 times? You pretend to hate him but really you love him, this is evident. Also no one forces you to watch it, if you don't like then don't watch it.

To do not like one thing, you have to first know it better than anyone.

In this particular case, one viewing was really all you needed to know you didn't like it.

The worst part is he made an ass of himself on the last Bonus Round by saying that the 360 has hardware that is more powerful than PC's, LOL.

Also, I'm still waiting on my Wii HD:

http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2008/10/07/pachter-absolutely-convinced-wii-hd-is-coming/

well he is right... the casual gamer did "abandon" the market.

They saw the quality of shovelware, and really, after that, who ever wants to play games again.

and Music games, seriously, people get tired of paying 60 dollars for something that could just as easily be provided as DLC per track.

I think it's asinine to blame anything on casual gamers. They flooded the market with money during a rough economy, and to whine and suggest that they abandoned anything is foolish as if you recall they weren't really there in the 1st place prior to this generation. PACH ATTACK!!!!

His blaming of the casual gamer was right, they're are to blame for the industry not making as much money, last year they all bought shovelware, this year they don't feel the need to buy the same mini-games re-boxed as another $40 game.

Yeah, he's pretty much right, whether you like it or not.

Music gamers abandoned the market because Activision flooded the damn market with crummy Guitar Hero spin offs that people just got sick of paying for.

Casual gamers are giving up because publishers keep giving them crap offerings. Ask yourself how many shitty games with sub-par controls and graphics you're willing to buy and play and you'll understand how the folks who buy those games feel, too.

I don't think it's too late for casual gamers. A consistent stream high quality, well made (and marketed, obviously) offerings from publishers would go a long ways towards making those folks not lose interest in gaming.

Music games seem like they're probably screwed until someone comes up with a completely new formula, though.

The industry only recently acquired the casual market you're blaming this on. Imagine how the industry would be doing if it hadn't only recently managed to rope them in. Point the finger at yourself, fella. What's more likely is the core gamers who have been floating the industry all along are getting severely more dollar conscious.

"they don't feel the need to buy the same mini-games re-boxed as another $40 game." is such a brainless statement that it's impossible to take seriously.

Except the serious games are still selling by the bucket load. Look at ACII, MW2, Dragon Age, they've all sold very well. It's the casual market that's burned out.

i always said the casual game thing was just a fad. Just like the housing bubble, we had the shovel ware bubble.

things will be back to normal soon.

He's actually one of the most accurate analysts out there.
http://kotaku.com/356982/analyzing-the-analysts-episode-one

Yea... what makes him the worst? He is actually really good. It is not his job talking to the gaming press and saying what he thinks, it is actually working with companies to help with investments ect.

Oh yeah... cause browsing on the Wii and PS3 is just so freaking fantastic!

/sarcasm

I don't use the facebook, twitter, or last.fm on my Xbox 360, but I can instantly tell how much more usable they are than on the Wii or, especially, the PS3's crappy web browsers. Maybe if you plug a keyboard and mouse into the PS3 it will be alright, but no way in hell would I use it.

I thought you could plug keyboards into the PS3 for the browser, and i definitely know you can for the Wii's.

Troll fail.

Pachters big thing about it is that he can view these things on the "tv" .. Especially last.fm, this is what grabs me as the strangest.

You would think having apps that are visual would be better suited to a tv right ?
I would rather look at facebook on my phone or on my laptop (you might have conversations going on that you dont want every one to see on the tv) I dont use twitter, so I cant comment on that.

The app that would make sense is youtube or flash support, because its visual you watch your tv, you dont really use it as a radio and you dont really use it to read text its called Television for a reason, there is this other thing called a radio, which can be plugged into an amplifier and into good speakers, rather than speakers from a tv. The amplifier can be really easily hooked up to a laptop and you can pump anything from your laptop, your own music collection / shoutcast / even last fm, the choice is yours, playing music from my console its more gimmick than anything else.. Can you play a game while listening to last.fm ?

Having friends round and getting them to watch a small laptop screen to watch a funny youtube clip sucks, being able to show them the clip on a big tv screen makes sense.. This is exactly why the browser kicks ass compared.. Watching tv episodes using a web based flash player also makes sense..

Listening to last.fm or looking at twitter / facebook on a television doesn't make any sense ...

PACH'S GOT YO' BACK!!


MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmHmmmmmmmmmmm!!

*Cue Shaft-like knock-off track*

Whose the white bushy'd brow'd cracker who gets all the chicks?

Patcher.

I can dig it.

Exception that makes the rule, everyone knows someone who lives to 90 and smokes 20 a day, it doesn't meant that cigarettes aren't bad for you. No one statement can be completely true for everyone.

Why do you personally own 3 copies of Borderlands?

Just curious.

Only way to play with 3 people in one house is to have 3 PS3s, 3 TVs and 3 copies of B-lands. =/

Splitscreen only works for 2 and won't connect to other systems on the LAN or online if you use it. Dunno if it's different for 360, but we only have one anyway.

Ryan, is this you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh1jB4hVJRg

Damn I failed

He was replying to me but the ' in my username makes it so nobody can reply to me.
: )

Why haven't you taken it out yet?

I know, I was dying of laughter from that

Your forward slash button doesn't work?

It's not a question, it's a statement, bro

I concur.