By Jon Porter
During a recent episode of his Pachter Factor show on Siftd, popular video game industry analyst Michael Pachter indicated he didn’t think the Nintendo NX would see much support from third-party developers in the West.
He remarked, “[With] the NX, I think you are going to see very low third-party support outside of Japan unless the thing is a hit.”
Despite the risk Pachter noted that Nintendo’s cash reserves, which he estimates to be around $10 billion, would carry it through a possible console failure. He said that “[in] the worst case if the NX is a bust, they will lose half a billion.”
We ran Pachter’s numbers through techradar’s resident supercomputer which revealed that this would leave Nintendo with around $9.5 billion in cash. In other words, the analyst is less worried about Nintendo going bust, and more about it not making the most of its assets.
A bumpy track record
Pachter’s comments come just a week after his prediction about the NX’s release date was proved to be correct. In March this year, in an interview with GamingBolt, Pachter predicted that the NX would be released in 2017. In their financial results last week, Nintendo confirmed this …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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