Comments on: Michael Pachter – 2009 a difficult year for gaming http://www.criticalgamer.co.uk/2009/12/16/michael-pachter-%e2%80%93-2009-a-difficult-year-for-gaming/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: David Macphail http://www.criticalgamer.co.uk/2009/12/16/michael-pachter-%e2%80%93-2009-a-difficult-year-for-gaming/comment-page-1/#comment-1025 David Macphail Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:44:06 +0000 http://www.criticalgamer.co.uk/?p=5462#comment-1025 I do agree that 2010 will be a good year for gaming but i don't agree that 2009 wasn't. This year there have been some very high - quality games released and a lot of games have sold incredibly well, MW2 broke all entertainment sales records so i hardly think the videogames industy is struggling. I also don't agree with his views on the Wii. We all expected the Wii to peak and then slowly fade out of the picture. It's been happening in Japan for the last year or so and it was only a matter of time before it started to decline in the US/EU. I don't think the Wii will sell any better next year, in fact, it may decline again. It remains to be seen what kind of an impact Sony and Microsoft's motion technology will have on the industry but with the quality of games coming out next year alone i think the industry will be fine. I do agree that 2010 will be a good year for gaming but i don’t agree that 2009 wasn’t. This year there have been some very high – quality games released and a lot of games have sold incredibly well, MW2 broke all entertainment sales records so i hardly think the videogames industy is struggling.

I also don’t agree with his views on the Wii. We all expected the Wii to peak and then slowly fade out of the picture. It’s been happening in Japan for the last year or so and it was only a matter of time before it started to decline in the US/EU. I don’t think the Wii will sell any better next year, in fact, it may decline again.

It remains to be seen what kind of an impact Sony and Microsoft’s motion technology will have on the industry but with the quality of games coming out next year alone i think the industry will be fine.

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