Analysts share general predictions for Nov. 2012 NPD results, talk next year
Cowen Research analyst Doug Creutz
- down 19 percent year-over-year for the console and handheld software market
- Black Ops II could be down about 11 percent
- "sharp rebound" in the first half of next year
Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter
- down just 2 percent year-over-year
- blame placed on falling sales of DS and Wii game
- expects Black Ops II to be roughly flat with Modern Warfare 3's sales from last November.
"We believe there is finally light at the end of this almost four-year tunnel of declining video game sales. We expect results to rebound into sharply positive territory in February, when Take-Two releases BioShock Infinite, and we don't think that results will revert to double-digit negative sales growth again in 2013."
- down 19 percent year-over-year for the console and handheld software market
- Black Ops II could be down about 11 percent
- "sharp rebound" in the first half of next year
Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter
- down just 2 percent year-over-year
- blame placed on falling sales of DS and Wii game
- expects Black Ops II to be roughly flat with Modern Warfare 3's sales from last November.
"We believe there is finally light at the end of this almost four-year tunnel of declining video game sales. We expect results to rebound into sharply positive territory in February, when Take-Two releases BioShock Infinite, and we don't think that results will revert to double-digit negative sales growth again in 2013."
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