41 Quotes by Michael Pachter

There are 5 million people who really believe they are getting an Xbox 360 relatively soon, by February. Microsoft has shipped 500,000 units, so 4.5 million people are doing nothing. That's enough to just kill Christmas.

What everybody needs to understand is Sony is not competing with Microsoft. Sony's competition is with Toshiba.

We expect modest growth in November and dramatic growth in December,

EA has a bunch of underperforming games, and I think that the cuts reflect that. Other publishers will cut underperformers as well.

It was a perfect storm. One could say it was a bad strategy; I would say instead of bad it was a very risky strategy. Essentially, they played blackjack and put a quarter of their money on each hand and busted every time.

The year's a mess. None of us thought six months ago the holidays would be so weak, and no one expected there'd be such a dramatic decline in sales for the current-generation of games.

It's killing the market. They did a masterful job of marketing the box and an abysmal job of managing the supply chain.

The number of units is a manufacturing constraint. You can't start production from zero and ramp to a million a week.

The number of units is a manufacturing constraint,