Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Securities.
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Analyst Michael Pachter predicts a slow death for consoles, but he’s bullish on games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Michael Pachter predicts that the consoles will die, but it will be a very slow death over the coming years.

Speaking at the Cloud Gaming Summit in San Francisco, the managing director and game analyst for Wedbush Securities said that consoles will last longer than he thought in the past, as the audience slowly dwindles and other devices become much more capable of running outstanding game experiences. In other words, it’s a slow death, but so slow that nobody needs to panic about it.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.