Pachter Factor Questions December 2018

What do you think hurt Fallout 76 more, the reaction from E3 or the the beta reaction?

Tarma

Have you changed your Nintendo Switch sales projections for the year ending March 2019? Were the Switch sales numbers from the Black Friday weekend higher than you expected, or lower? Do Black Friday sales numbers help project sales for the rest of the holiday season?

GraphtreonGuy

End of year question which gaming companies have come farthest for #MeToo this year? Where would you encourage your daughter to work? Any Salesforce equals out there?

Is there any way that Gamestop is able to reinvent their business model and stay afloat?

Why is it so important for a public company to release an unfinished game before a financial year ends instead of pushing it a few months and get a more polished version out in the following financial year?

It's common to hear that the EA E3 conference is catered to the investors, not the gamers. Who are these investors? Are they millonaires chomping on cigars, or is it an advertisement to get the common man to purchase some stock? Why not have a seperate investor show so the E3 crowd doesn't get in an uproar over C&C mobile.

How do you think the next generation of consoles will compare to the current-gen based on features? What would you like to see the new consoles do that the current ones don’t?

NeO JD

Do you think Steam will start to decline now that developers are releasing AAA games on their own platforms?

What game do you think will get the most Game of the Year awards in 2018? RDR2, Fortnite, or something else?

Hi Pach! By now everybody should know you drink it neat and from a nosing glass, so how did it become the cool thing to drink whisk(e)y on the rocks from a tumbler in movies and on TV?

Volker Bach

Dear Pach. EA are gone. Sony are gone. Microsoft are kind of gone. What do the ESA do now to change / save E3 2019?

Hey Pack. People get all worked up over the UK game sales numbers. I was wondering how the UK sales numbers correlate with the American NPD numbers and the global sales numbers that publishers sometimes release?

Nick Kearney

Whats the Best 18 year old whisky to find on a budget? Looking to try my first bottle of 18

Leo Rojas

With Sony pulling out of E3 2019, does this mean the PS5 reveal is set for next year? What do you think their strategy is? Also, what changes do you see Microsoft making for their E3 showcase in response?

NeO JD

Would you be open to doing a show about all the predictions you’ve made that were wrong? (i have no idea how often you are right or wrong.) You could say why you had your opinion at the time and explain why you were ultimately wrong.

Hi Pach--do you think there is any potential for Microsoft to catch up during the next generation with Scarlet, or is that battle already over?

Dear Pach Despite whether anyone thinks loot boxes are gambling or not, with another government, this time Australia, commissioning a in-depth study into Loot Boxes and more emphasis from politicians, should the ESRB and publishers work together on a revised monetisation model to avoid potential governments banning / regulating their presence in games? Do you think companies will self regulate when so much revenue is being generated? Can fiduciary duty be considered as protecting the revenue model by changing the practice rather than a simplistic “make as much money as possible”?

So with the new ps one classic not being so great. Do u see an end the new trend or do u think only Nintendo can do it right like motion control and I guess portable.