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MontanaHatchet on 27 July 2012
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zarx said:
MontanaHatchet said:

I admire their goal to make great games, but seeing as how they're nearly bankrupt, it would be in their best interest to shift development to systems with cheaper costs (e.g. 3DS, iPhone, PC). It's a particularly difficult period because publishers can't fall back as much on the withering Wii/DS, but they need to get money somewhere. THQ can't be Naughty Dog either. Don't think I really need to reiterate this, but a company with a situation as tenuous as THQ's should be making very low risk investments. Not niche titles with high budgets.

But focusing on Wii/DS/Low budget PC/licensed games/UDraw is what got them into this mess, and Saint's Row and Darksiders is basically the only thing that is keeping them going at this point. Focusing one the games that actually sell makes sense for them, tho it is risky. 

Personally I think they should be doing some more low budget smaller games as well but they don't want to spread the resources to thin so I understand the reasoning for not doing that. Small games on mobile/nintendo platforms doesn't gurentee success ether. 

What is this based off of?

Why would low budget games be the ones making THQ lose huge amounts of money? uDraw was successful on the Wii, or at least successful enough that someone decided it should be ported to the 360 and PS3 (where the game incurred massive losses for THQ). A title like de Blob might not have been a huge hit, but at about 900k copies solid, it likely gained a solid profit on the Wii. The equivalent title on the HD consoles would be a complete failure.

I know we all want THQ to make games we want to play, but personally, I don't want to see THQ go bankrupt because of something like Homefront 2.