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Gamasutra asked video game market analysts to wrap up their thoughts on the year 2006, picking their brains on the health and performance of the industry. While most were positive on the PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo DS, Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter went a bit more negative, namely on underperforming sales of the Xbox 360.
I'm pretty disappointed in the Xbox 360. I think Microsoft is doing everything right: Games are good; Xbox Live is amazing; and the console is not prohibitively expensive. Yet people are just not buying. The console is lagging behind my initial expectations by at least 200,000 units per month in the U.S., and I don't know why.
Microsoft is surely due for a price drop this spring, with some stand out original titles in the pipeline, as well as Halo 3. Will 2007 be the year of the Xbox 360? Will the non-hardcore crowd finally bite with unproven IP like Lost Planet, Blue Dragon, and Mass Effect? It sure worked for Gears of War.
Analyze This: Wrapping Up the Year in Gaming [Gamasutra]
