THQ details full extent of uDraw disaster, 1.4m unsold units adds up to $100m revenue shortfall

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badgenome on 02 February 2012

Wii U is doomed.

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NightDragon83 on 02 February 2012

I didn't even know uDraw was on the PS360 lol, thought it was only a Wii thing. Apparently nobody else knew either, and if they did, they didn't care.

1.4 million units collecting dust... maybe they can find some room in the landfill with the E.T. carts buried there.

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thismeintiel on 02 February 2012

Well, I bought one. Of course, for only $30, and not the $70-$80 they were asking for it.

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reviniente on 02 February 2012

Seece said:

RolStoppable said:

Seece said:
Can't they even sell those 1.4m Udraws at a marked down price? I'm sure they'd at least shift them at 10 bucks a pop ...

I don't think retailers would take more uDraws, not even for that price. There's no consumer demand and that thing takes up more shelf space than regular games.

They'll have to sell them through their own website or something then, that or give them away, that or we have another E.T fiasco.

I won't lie, that'd be a sight to behold.

There's still plenty of landfill space left in New Mexico.

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Moren on 02 February 2012

Who greenlighted Udraw on PS360 anyway? What a silly idea.

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Just goes to show how divided last generation was. Wii had its own failures, but so too did the others.

Will be interesting to see the sales of Skylanders, split between the 3.

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=Skylanders

Official figures from Activision i guess won't be happening anytime soon.

Last time I checked we're still in the 7th gen...

I'm guessing the Skylanders sales are Wii > 360 > PS3

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Millenium on 02 February 2012

Well that has to be one of the worst cases of overproducing that I've ever heard of in the gaming business.

Can really only contribute this to an flawed expectation of the game being ''frontloaded'', if it's anything else... well then they'd be even bigger dumbasses.