What I love most about Michael Pachter, chief among many things (other suggestions are his thick head of hair, the assumption that he probably has a confident musky tone to his natural scent) it’s that he’s gotten a job where all he does is a thing that all of us do on a regular basis. He’s a predictor, basing stock advice on what he thinks the next moves for companies are. He’s often wrong, but his role in the industry is such that he’ll throw out more comments than can realistically ever all be correct.
This week he’s let us know he believes GTA 5 will be out for the next generation of consoles. What’s he basing that information on? Who cares? He said it, now here’s over 250 words discussing it.
Maybe he’s right. It makes sense that you’d port something over from one console to the other eventually. You can get a ton of old GTA games on the iPad now.
What he’s suggested is a very conservative estimation of events that at some point a game that’s being developed for current systems will find a way to different ones. Maybe that’s only worked before because of the novelty of getting a game that was a classic staple of the console experience reduced down to something you hold in your hand.
We’ll see, maybe he’s right, maybe he’s wrong. Either way it will make legitimately no difference either way that he said anything or didn’t. There’s no reason to report this. We did. We’re going to keep doing it. We’re going to be smug about how clever we are pointing this out every time from now on. Look at how post-modern and meta we’re being.
