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Train wreck on 18 April 2012
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Buzzi said:
Bristow9091 said:
So ditching Nintendo is basically doing them well? Works for me I suppose...

I'm not suprised Saints Row: The Third is doing so well sales wise, it's a brilliant game, very entertaining and fun, and also very random... I mean come on, Burt fucking Reynolds is in it!

I also played the demo for UFC Undisputed 3, it was really REALLY great, haven't picked it up just yet though, although I will do in the next few months.

THQ's games have been getting so much better recently :D This is a good sign!


The losses came mainly from Udraw for HD consoles, they produced over one million of them and never sold tha much. Udraw on Wii was a sucess actually, even if it lasted just some months.

The Udraw on Wii was only midly successfuly for one quarter from October to December 2010.  I say midly because THQ still had a big loss in that quarter.  The Wii version was not able to duplicate the mild success it had the following holiday season (i mean it was still on sale) that along with the failed HD launched resulted in their dismissal of the entire product line, and their abysmal quarter.

On the conference call in February, the CEO mentioned that shipped over 1 million Udraw tablets during the quarter.   The CFO mentioned that 1.2million were HD versions that were still in inventory and resulted in the HD version coming 100 million *ligter* in revenue that they expected, not they had a 100 million dollar loss.

The million that did ship, there is no breakdown. I am assuming that if the HD versions came in 100 million dollars lighter, it was a combination of Wii and HD tablets that were shipped to retailers and since THQ was not going to take any of them back, they dropped the price drastically, for all systems.