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Mat Piscatella

@matpiscatella.bsky.social

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Senior Director & Video Game Industry Thought Leader at Circana. Formerly of Activision and Warner Bros Games. I helped get one of your favorite games greenlit.

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 8d

Upcoming U.S. video game market results from Circana:
Coverage Month - Public Release Date

Aug (Aug 3 - Aug 30) - Oct 8
Sep (Aug 31 - Oct 4) - Oct 22
Oct (Oct 5 - Nov 1) - Nov 20
Nov (Nov 2 - Nov 29) - Dec 17

Digital Data Sharing Participating Publishers:

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 11h

Only thing you can do is keep them going until Sunday.

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 12h

Smoke em if you got em

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 13h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 13h

Cheers but it's fine about the Pads. It's what they do.

Yeah this is a lot of sliders. Must have found something in the data for this to be the gameplan and it's worked so far!

Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 14h

Radio beats everything not being in the yard imo. The best!

Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 14h

Time for a tattoo!

Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 14h

Idk this kid may have a future in this game if he keeps at it

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 14h

Orly

Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 23h

Price and built in content libraries for folks are two massive selling points, absolutely.

Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 23h

"The Steam Deck is a wonderful and beloved device – for the relatively small number of consumers who own one."

Yep. And Steam Deck is dominant in PC Portable market share.

So many manufacturers are jumping in to see what happens, but outside of Steam Deck... not a lot has been happening.

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 23h

Rob Fahey says that although handheld gaming devices are now a hot sector, nobody who isn’t Nintendo is actually selling many. "Building a dedicated handheld Xbox with a commitment to sell at least ten million units would have been pure hubristic madness."

www.gamesindustry.biz/handhelds-ar...

Handhelds are in vogue – but they’re still a commercial minefield | Opinion

Once thought destroyed by smartphones, handheld gaming devices are now a hot sector; but nobody whose name isn’t Nintendo is actually selling many

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 1d

Been a minute since we had a server melting launch. Good sign!

Hopefully folks in the queue will be calm, cool and collected and maybe go for a walk or something and try it again in a bit!

That can happen, right? Right?

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 1d

I gotta get to Sicily.

Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 1d

Just an epic all-timer brain fart

Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 1d

Mitch Williams sitting back thinking yeah I'm good now

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 1d

Rick Steves is the best, and this is wonderful news.

Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 1d

Thread:

A year ago yesterday was a very happy day for me. I had lost my prostate. It was good riddance, as it was riddled with cancer. I’m now cancer-free — and thankful for the tax-funded technology that saved my life.

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 1d

I'll have to look!

Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 1d

Well, around 90% of console/PC players also play mobile, so yeah. Overwhelming majority of players play across 2 or more platform types.

Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 1d

I'd leave it all behind to see a Pads playoff clincher but lucky for me that's not likely to ever happen again so

Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 1d

Real fans would quit their jobs cmon now.

Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 1d

If not the Padres of it all! Only Will Myers gave us that power and dude is long gone. Such is life.

Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 1d

Ikr

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 1d

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure I caught Covid in early 2020 at the Santa Clara Hilton while playing Gylt on Stadia via hotel wifi in the lobby bar just to see if I could do it (it worked way better than expected!) while the couple next to me kept coughing and wheezing. Good times.

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 1d

Found this hidden gem thanks to the Indie Spotlight coverage over at Games Radar. Only half an hour in but its pretty cool so far and perfect vibes for spoopy season. Check a look if you're into that kind of thing.

www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...

Gloomy Eyes is the perfect Tim Burton-esque scarytale to usher in October, and I was immediately charmed by its creepy yet chill puzzles

Indie Spotlight | A modern gothic zombie tale framing an environmental puzzler? Sign my Halloween-loving self right up

www.gamesradar.com

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 2d

The question specifically asked here is "How often do you typically purchase a new game?"