http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=114607

A portion of an IGN interview with Brian Farrell, CEO of THQ...

IGN: All right, let's switch focus a bit. THQ was one of the first and biggest third-party backers of Wii and you guys gambled with original licenses like de Blob and Deadly Creatures. The latter was a T-rated game that flopped. Why do you think T and M-rated titles like these haven't found an audience on Nintendo's platform?

Brian Farrell: Yeah, it's the audience. I'm glad we made the experience. Deadly Creatures was a fun experience. Critically well-reviewed. Didn't find much of an audience and I think more of the core-gaming audience is on 360 and PS3. I know Nintendo doesn't like that message. I'm a huge fan of Nintendo personally, but that's just not where the audience is or the audience there is fairly limited. The old guys like me and maybe you will still play the core stuff -- all the stuff we love about Nintendo on the Wii. But we don't branch out and play some of the core experiences on the Wii. If we do, we go HD and play on PS3 or 360.

I think that's the dynamic that's going on. There's nothing wrong with that. There's plenty of audience on the Wii. We've been concentrating more on our kids, family and casual stuff there and there is a viable business on the Wii for that stuff. It's just not the core experiences.

IGN: So it's safe to assume we won't ever be seeing a version of Darksiders or anything like that on Wii?

Brian Farrell: Yeah, I won't rule anything out. There are things that we can do. At E3, we'll be unveiling a few things around Wii that are some brand extensions and you go, "Okay, that makes sense on Wii." I can get that audience on the Wii. I don't want to front-run our PR department on some things. I don't want to rule out those things. You have to be smart about what you put on Wii from a core gamer's standpoint. But if you look at what's selling on Wii, it's Nintendo's stuff and it's kids, family and casual. Our kids, family and casual gained a lot of share this year on the Wii with things like The Biggest Loser and Marvel Super Hero Squad, and those type of products. And that's where the Wii consumer is.

IGN: You did announce a de Blob sequel, though. Is that coming to Wii?

Brian Farrell: Well, de Blob started its life on Wii. We've not announced anything yet, but obviously with a great brand like that -- people love that character -- taking it to other platforms, the game mechanic can be done. Actually, I prefer it on a normal controller. We'll be branching it out to other platforms -- that's a great brand to build.

IGN: Great. So we will see it across the board then.

Brian Farrell: Absolutely.

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IGN: You mention every major online platform except Wii. Why is that?

Brian Farrell: Well, we just need to have a better understanding of Nintendo's digital strategy. If they have a robust environment for connecting for consumers, we'd be all over it, because eventually everybody is going to be connected that way. We're not trying to ignore our partners at Nintendo -- as you know, we've been very Nintendo friendly for years. But it's just a matter of understanding how we can fit into their online ecosystem.

Good to see THQ diversifying. Hope it works out for them.

Well nice to see them expand platforms for the franchise as it has a chance to be a pretty big platformer.

But it's simply irresponsible to state that when something YOU release isn't YOUR fault why it doesn't do well but it is always someone else's flop. These publishers need to get over themselves and learn that this is a sales market. You release the product and you guarantee its success or failure. Too much lately we've been hearing them making excuses of it's the userbase or the economy or whatever. Those factors do play in, but by not knowing that they have no one to blame but themselves. Guess no one else finds it rude and disrespectful to the owners of a system that are constantly getting blamed for THEIR failures.

Great to see THQ supporting PS3 and 360 with games like De Blob!

Wonder what these "brand extentions" will be for Wii.

de Blob coming for PS3/360 confirmed

"Actually, I prefer it on a normal controller."
Classic controller, silly boy.

It's endless. The publisher does nothing, gets no results, blames the audience (which is the one thing you should never ever ever do if you're not a blazing idiot), declares that they tried everything, throws their hands up in frustration and give up

Its a wonder any of these companies are still in business.

Carl2291 said: Great to see THQ supporting PS3 and 360 with games like De Blob! Wonder what these "brand extentions" will be for Wii.

I'm guessing St. Row Middle School: The Game, Bikeriderz, The Biggest Loser: Wii consumer.

Little things like that.

THQ has made 3 quality games in the last year

UFC 2009
Red Faction: Guerrilla
Darksiders


I can't complain about their decisions either to develop for wii or hd consoles, it doesn't bother me if they go out of business as well, as long as they keep delivering quality products for the core market.

haha when de blob came out on wii HD fanboys said Wii had no good games,same with NMH but when it gets ported over they now really want to play them.

Good games are good games no matter the system.

Guy is way better then the activision guy, but still shouldn't they really port deadly creatures to the HD twins since the wii was the games only problem?