The “Break it Down” Blog

PSN Cracks 14 Million Active User Mark – Michael Pachter Eats Feet

In the most recent Bonus Round episodes (Online Services – Part 1, Part 2) analyst Michael Pachter, and all around good-dresser, proported that PSN was a complete Sony-fail with, what he guessed, was less than 1 million active users; part of his reasoning for stating this was that Sony never announced numbers for the service [...]

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Wii Music Reviews Poorly, May Sell Wildly… Why?

“Sounding good while playing Wii Music is… practically impossible”, as the reviewers from GameTrailers state. Even with that level of criticism, horrible control schemes and terrible sounding MIDI-based instruments (none of the tracks are originals), will Wii Music fail this holiday season? Michael Pachter thinks not. The straight “kid/parent appeal” alone, Pachter estimates, is worth more [...]

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