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Despite all the marketing that NVIDIA has done for its products, it looks like at least one analyst group thinks that the company doesn't quite cut it.
Up until a few days ago, NVIDIA was one of the companies on Sterne Agee's “Catalyst Driven Idea List”.
This is no longer the case, the 111-y... |
11 February 2012
05:44 GMT |
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The NPD Group is expected to soon release its sales figures for the month of January 2012 on the United States video game market, and at least one analyst believes that the decline of the industry will continue and that overall sales will slow down by about 15 percent when compared to the same period of last year.
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7 February 2012
21:31 GMT |
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A report from Baird Equity Research, a financial analysis firm based in the United States, states that two titles, the upcoming Call of Duty installment and the already confirmed Grand Theft Auto V, will account for one third of overall games sales for the coming fiscal year.
When it comes to actual copies moved to ... |
24 January 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Lately there has been little talk about a 4-inch display on the next-generation iPhone, but that’s not stopping Wall Street from dreaming. In fact, an analyst with Susquehanna Financial believes Apple will unveil just that, later this year."With respect to iPhone 5, we continue to estimate production to begin a... |
20 January 2012
14:11 GMT |
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In what is definitely a farfetched recommendation, games industry analyst Michael Pachter has advised Microsoft to consider releasing a tablet-like controller for the Xbox 360, in the vein of the Nintendo Wii U, or even support the integration of existing devices like the iPad or Galaxy Tab.Microsoft’s Xbox 360... |
10 January 2012
19:41 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita is getting ready for its launch in February, but games industry analysts are unsure about its chances of success. Some believe that first-party games might save it, while others say that it will only end up damaging Sony’s image.
While the PlayStation Vita isn’t doing so well in its ... |
5 January 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Dedicated mobile gaming platforms like the already launched Nintendo 3DS or the upcoming PlayStation Vita might achieve impressive sales throughout the year, but M2 Research analyst Billy Pidgeon believes they’ll still be affected by other mobile devices like phones or tablets.
Many years ago, the only way to ... |
4 January 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Another analyst has revealed his forecasts concerning PC gaming in 2012. M2 Research’s Billy Pidgeon says that the PC will trump consoles in terms of popularity due to a variety of factors, including its more flexible nature, the more powerful hardware, varied online experiences, and even through its support of... |
3 January 2012
15:51 GMT |
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If Apple releases not one, but two separate versions of the iPad 3 this year, as previously rumored, the company’s pricing strategy may change, according to a Digitimes analysis.
After talking to people in Apple’s supply chain, the Taiwanese publication learned that “there will be two versions of t... |
3 January 2012
03:45 GMT |
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While dance games have become very popular in the last couple of years, industry analyst Jesse Divnich believes that 2011 has seen them at their peak, and the New Year will see profits and popularity go down fast.
Dance games have become extremely profitable in the last couple of years, with lots of casual gamers ea... |
29 December 2011
03:09 GMT |
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ABI Research’s new study, “Mobile Application Tracker Database,” says that ever since Apple enabled in-app purchasing for free apps in October 2009, “developers have been remarkably quick to evolve their business models.”The report quotes Aapo Markkanen, senior analyst, consumer mobility... |
21 December 2011
10:45 GMT |
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Less than a day into the release of a report featuring Apple as the centerpiece (Global Multi-Touch Market 2011-2016), Research and Markets has announced the addition yet another report to their portfolio - "SSD Insights - The Catalyst" SSD Insights - The Catalyst examines Apple's relatively recent developments ... |
15 December 2011
13:41 GMT |
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2011 will be yet another year of overall decline for the retail video games market in the United States, despite the strong performance seen during the Black Friday period and the good prospects for the pre-Christmas shopping period.Michael Pachter, who is an analyst watching the industry for Wedbush Morgan, stated, ... |
2 December 2011
22:11 GMT |
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Horace Dediu, with marketing intelligence firm Asymco, has rolled out a new analysis looking at the reasons why the Mac is still growing and now consists of 74% portable devices.Dediu observes that the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines are “still largely unmatched and have a near monopoly in their target price.... |
26 October 2011
05:45 GMT |
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The analyst Michael Pachter, who is watching the video game industry for the firm Wedbush Morgan Securities, has stated that he believes that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will sell twice as many copies during this holiday season as Battlefield 3.Pachter believes that Modern Warfare 3, which is being created by Infi... |
25 October 2011
05:44 GMT |
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Analysts are yet unsure who will win the first person shooter crown this year but they believe that the fierce competition between Battlefield 3, from DICE and Electronic Arts, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, from Infinity Ward and Activision, is good for the health of the industry.John Taylor, who is an analyst ... |
18 October 2011
17:21 GMT |
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A new report from market analysts firm Wedbush Securities says that the United States video game market might actually report a grow for the month of September, thanks mostly to very good software sales.Michael Pachter, who is an analyst with Wedbush and watches the video game industry, has stated that sales of video... |
11 October 2011
17:31 GMT |
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The huge “pent up demand” for the upcoming Apple iPhone will downright “shatter” Apple’s first-day sales record of 1.7 million units sold, according to Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White. Apple’s event tomorrow is actually expected to feature two new iPhones, not just one.W... |
3 October 2011
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A research note issued by Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair paints a new scenario for Apple’s forthcoming event, reportedly scheduled for October 4. The researcher sees only an iPhone 4S launching this year, alongside an iPod touch that accepts SIM cards for 3G wireless, much like the iPad.Blair’s resear... |
22 September 2011
04:55 GMT |
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As competitors launch flop after flop in the tablet industry, Apple has no reason to rush the launch of a new iPad, one analyst has opined recently.Analyst Mark Moskowitz with J.P. Morgan said today that he has been in contact with a number of industry insiders who allegedly briefed him on Apple’s plans with th... |
16 September 2011
09:15 GMT |
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The creation of the upcoming Max Payne 3 might have cost Rockstar, its developer and publisher, around $105 million, at least according to Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia, who believes that the game needs to sell at least 4 million copies to break even.Max Payne 3 has been in development for quite some time, and th... |
13 September 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Analysts are projecting that Apple will have sold no less than 86.4 million iPhone units in 2011, whereas hard-to-beat Nokia will only record 74.4 million smartphones sold by year's end.According to Luke Lin, an analyst for Digitimes Research, Apple’s smartphone shipments are expected to surpass the 86.4 m... |
6 September 2011
07:44 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto V has not yet been announced by the developers at Rockstar or by the publisher Take Two but analysts are already thinking about how much the game might sell when it is released and what impact it could have on the parent company.In a note to investors Michael Pachter, who is an analyst working for We... |
11 August 2011
05:49 GMT |
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An analyst note authored Brian White of Ticonderoga Securities resurrects rumors of a budget iPhone alongside a brand-new iPhone 5, with Apple allegedly keeping a close eye on the Chinese market.
The analyst has reportedly learned that China Telecom may have reached a "preliminary agreement" to carry not only the ... |
4 August 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has been doing some snooping around to learn whether or not Apple is launching a fifth-generation iPod touch this year.
The current iPod touch players feature a metal finish, a super slim design, and feature a black bezel behind the front glass.
Just like the iPhone 4, th... |
22 July 2011
08:59 GMT |
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Windows Phone, the latest mobile operating system from Redmond-based Microsoft, is expected to gain a lot of market share in the next few years, greatly helped by the popularity Nokia's smartphones running under it would have, analysts believe.However, it seems that Windows Phone might not prove as helpful to N... |
1 June 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Estimates from analysts point to the Nintendo 3DS handheld having sold more than 500,000 units on the United States market since it was launched, with the biggest reason being the strong pre-orders that have been registered for the device.
Michael Pachter, who is an analyst of the video game market with Wedbush Mo... |
12 April 2011
10:31 GMT |
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The lawsuit that links Vince Zampella and Jason West, the founders of Infinity Ward, and rival publishers Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts will probably take quite a bit more time to be solved, but at least one analyst believes that the developers at the center of the affair will not get too much out of it.
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6 April 2011
05:43 GMT |
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The Nintendo 3DS, despite huge demand, won't be a victim of any sort of shortages, according to both retail stores and industry analysts, as Nintendo has taken a lot of precautions to ensure people will be able to buy the new handheld.
The Nintendo 3DS is now available around the world, with the company havin... |
30 March 2011
03:45 GMT |
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Hit mobile game Angry Birds is now considered one of the most profitable games ever released and is expected to appear on Facebook around May.
Angry Birds, the mobile game phenomenon that captured a huge audience all over the world, spanning a wide variety of platforms, including the iOS or Android mobile operatin... |
10 March 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Nintendo, who is preparing to launch its new 3DS handheld console, may also be getting ready to roll out a brand new home console, the successor to the current Wii, next year, according to a games analyst.
The Japanese company is set to really shake up the portable gaming market with the upcoming release of the Ni... |
7 February 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto V, the latest installment in Rockstar's hugely popular franchise, is set to be officially announced at this summer's E3 conference, at least according to Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia.
While Rockstar's latest games, Red Dead Redemption and the upcoming L.A. Noire are all fine an... |
4 February 2011
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Nintendo is making a mistake by charging $250 for its new 3DS handheld unit, at least according to Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter.
Nintendo presented its upcoming 3DS portable console last week, impressing almost anyone even related to the gaming industry.
Alongside even more details about its 3D te... |
24 January 2011
03:10 GMT |
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EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich recently expressed his views on the current console generation, saying that consumers wouldn't get a new price cut anytime soon, and that hardware manufacturers would rely on new peripherals to prolong the lifecycle of their products.
First off, Divnich revealed that we shouldn... |
13 December 2010
14:21 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, the outspoken analyst which works for Wedbush Morgan Securities, has again caused a stir by saying that publishers need to monetize the multiplayer side of their video games in order to get the industry out of its current slump.
In his Pach Attack show on the Gametrailers site, the analyst has sai... |
8 December 2010
17:41 GMT |
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A number of analysts are saying that 2011 will be a worse year for the video game industry than 2010, with the industry continuing to see a shift away from the packaged retail mode and towards a system where digital sales and social games are more important than ever. Speaking to Gamasustra as part of a bigger analy... |
7 December 2010
04:15 GMT |
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The analyst Michael Pachter has stated that he expects the PlayStation Move from Sony and the Kinect from Microsoft, both motion tracking add ons, to get combined sales of between 20 and 25 million units before the end of next year, generating significant additional sales for the gaming industry.
In an investor no... |
3 December 2010
04:45 GMT |
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Renowned games industry analyst Michael Pachter revealed in a recent interview that Valve's Steam digital distribution platform might offer the gamers the ability to trade-in or exchange their game licenses.Steam is currently one of the most popular PC distribution platforms, with lots of users and a huge amount... |
14 October 2010
17:21 GMT |
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In a note to customers issued yesterday, JMP Research analyst Alex Gauna wrote that stock of new generation Apple TVs is already depleted at many of Apple’s US retail outlets, leading to assumptions that the device is selling at a pace at least one quarter to one third that of the iPad. In other words, Apple TV... |
7 October 2010
06:40 GMT |
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A Wall Street analyst believes Apple is on track to release a couple of new iPhones, with both larger and smaller screens, after checking with sources in Apple’s overseas supply chain. Rumors of Apple planning the launch of an iPhone “nano” emerged years ago, and have since died with strong indicati... |
7 October 2010
03:20 GMT |
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Famous video games analyst Michael Pachter has once again gazed in his crystal ball and predicts that the Xbox 360 will see a 50 U.S. dollar price cut next spring, leading the way for cuts across the board for video game consoles.The Wedbush Securities analyst revealed that consoles will have a very successful 2011, ... |
6 October 2010
17:11 GMT |
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The next generation of consoles, with devices like the PlayStation 4 or Xbox 720, might not be successful, if video game download and streaming service OnLive might get off the ground, at least according to famed video game analyst Michael Pachter.We're already around the middle of the current generation console... |
30 September 2010
02:57 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii will get a price cut in the near future, at least according to Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter, who has revealed that, given the diminishing sales, the Japanese company will make a move around next year.The Nintendo Wii video games console is seeing its massive sales slowing down these day... |
27 September 2010
02:25 GMT |
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Analyst Jeffrey Fidacaro with Susquehanna Financial Group ha issued a note to investors saying that checks with overseas suppliers indicated Apple is planning build 3 million CDMA-capable iPhones in December.A report by AppleInsider citing the analyst says that, according to this forecast, Apple’s new device re... |
22 September 2010
09:03 GMT |
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Amid iPhone 5 rumors, a prominent analyst believes iPhone 5 "will be Apple's first phone to support LTE," also known as 4G, via a two-chip modem. The analyst does not specify when he believes Apple will ship this device, but does reaffirm rumors of a CDMA-based iPhone 4 on Verizon’s network, as well as tho... |
22 September 2010
05:04 GMT |
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The 16-gigabyte version of the iPad is now available in China for 3,988 yuan (around 590 US dollars), while the 32GB and 64GB models sell for 4,788 yuan and 5,588 yuan respectively. Analysts trust the device to do quite well in the country, according to a statement from the managing director of technology consultancy... |
20 September 2010
03:27 GMT |
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Maynard Um, an analyst with UBS Investment Research, corroborates rumors of Apple’s iPad eating away at notebook PC sales in an investor note saying that consumers are projected to buy at least 28 million units in 2011.The UBS Investment Research analyst reportedly increased his price target for AAPL stock from... |
8 September 2010
08:45 GMT |
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A job opening posted relatively recently by Apple still needs an applicant who is eager to support Apple's Global Compensation Services team in "documenting current processes, identifying possible solutions, and managing implementation and process change."The Compensation Services Process Analyst “Must be ... |
26 August 2010
08:36 GMT |
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An analyst with Kaufman Bros. issued a note to investors today, signaling that the "biggest potential change" to the upcoming new Apple TV is the addition of an ARM architecture processor tasked with running a variant of the iOS.Shaw Wu said that sources indicated there will be a spot for Apple’s forthcoming se... |
25 August 2010
09:37 GMT |
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There have been countless rumors saying Apple is planning to sign with Verizon over a CDMA-capable iPhone, with one Wall Street analyst now saying that Apple is close to inking that deal, as the deal with AT&T has spent its fuel.Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu issued a note to investors today, signaling that Apple need... |
23 August 2010
11:48 GMT |
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