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Matt Matthews's Comments
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Comment In: U.S. retail software in 2012: What you need to know [News - 01/22/2013 - 12:59]
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Christian: The double punch of ... Christian: The double punch of Super Smash Bros. Brawl March '08 and Mario Kart Wii April '08 was pretty notable on Wii hardware sales. Although it doesn 't prove causation, of course, but I 'm not inclined to argue that they weren 't motivators for Wii hardware sales. r n ... |
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Comment In: Black Friday History and the Wii U [News - 11/28/2012 - 04:07]
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Christian, Nintendo helping themselves with ... Christian, Nintendo helping themselves with their own games 3 out of the 4 you listed doesn 't directly help other publishers. You can argue that they set an example that they expected everyone else to understand and follow, but they need to act as the beneficial intermediary here. Get publishers ... |
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Comment In: GameStop's digital plan falters [News - 11/26/2012 - 03:48]
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You have a point: one ... You have a point: one doesn 't want to trust a model out too far. r n r nThat said, I 'd make a few points. First, GameStop 's TTM growth as I recall was very similar to an exponential growth curve. Second, when they made their 1.5 billion claim, ... |
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Comment In: Not even November can save U.S. game retail now [News - 11/12/2012 - 12:25]
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Retail is at least 50 ... Retail is at least 50 of the market. If there were no reporting on it, then people would complain that we were ignoring half of the market. r n r nAnd, I believe if you read the last part of my column, you 'll see that I 'm encouraging more ... |
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Comment In: The revamped PlayStation Store looks gorgeous... but so what? [News - 10/18/2012 - 10:18]
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Of course, we didn 't ... Of course, we didn 't get this yet in SCEA-land. : For once the Euro folks are ahead of us. : |
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Comment In: At retail, the big games are still selling (even if nothing else is) [News - 10/15/2012 - 02:06]
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Christian: It 's more that ... Christian: It 's more that big games are more likely to succeed, not that they are guaranteed. I 'm just not sure there are a lot of good examples of mid-tier games that are succeeding right now in the U.S. , so they are the ones having real trouble breaking ... |
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Comment In: Video game retail sales declines are finally slowing down - sort of [News - 09/25/2012 - 01:10]
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Robb: The digital side isn ... Robb: The digital side isn 't really the focus here. The focus of the article was that retail might finally be contracting more slowly. Any trend in digital, unless somehow specifically correlated to this, is kind of beside the point. |
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Comment In: Sizing up Wii U's price tag against history [News - 09/13/2012 - 12:11]
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@Merc Hoffner: The Xbox 360 ... @Merc Hoffner: The Xbox 360 at 400 is indeed shown on the chart, and it has been that way since this article was published. It is not on the inflation adjusted, because that was messier to do, and I declined to do it. But your implication that it was somehow ... |
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Comment In: With sales on the decline, has Call of Duty hit its peak? [News - 08/15/2012 - 04:49]
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Good catch, Christian Fixing. r ... Good catch, Christian Fixing. r n r nEdit: Should be fixed now. Thanks |
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Comment In: Gamasutra's half-year U.S. video game retail sales analysis [News - 07/16/2012 - 03:51]
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TC Weidner: I 've not ... TC Weidner: I 've not said macroeconomic factors weren 't important - they may well be - but the argument being made here is post hoc ergo propter hoc, and that 's not rational. If you want to find evidence that the recession is a prime driver of this, then ... |
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