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uDraw is dead, leave it dead 18 60.00%
 
uDraw belongs on mobile but not console 2 6.67%
 
uDraw belongs on mobile a... 9 30.00%
 
uDraw should other (Expla... 1 3.33%
 
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Zim on 18 May 2012
Train wreck said:
Zim said:
I get what you are saying and there is some validity. The Udraw series could work well on Wii U and 3DS where THQ itself doesn't need to make the hardware (they are still sitting on 1.4MILLION! units). They could simply make the game. It has some potential. Being the first to market with this type of game on Wii U will likely be very successful.

However some of your suggestions are very odd. Mario Udraw? Why? What possible advantage would that be to Nintendo? The Udraw license isn't strong, if they wanted to make a drawing game it would be cheap and easy and they wouldn't have to share the money with THQ. Generally speaking allowing other companies to touch mario has been because it was mutually beneficial. Mario and Sonic in one game? That's a double money maker.

A mobile version at $5 or $3? How would it compete with Drawsomething?

If you read their current earnings report, youd see they sold thru 84% of their Udraw stock and plan to have it gone by the end of this fiscal year (Mar 2013), they shipped 130k this past quarter.  They dont have 1.4 mil in stock.


The 1.4mil in stock came from THQ themselves in February. If they only shipped 130k this last quarter they are still way over a million. 

Not only this but no where in their report does it state they sold through 84% of their stock. It states and I quote '' Based upon sell-through in North America of approximately 84 percent of units shipped''
So in North America 84% of units that had already been shipped have been sold. Units that have been shipped is expressely not units that THQ itself has in stock. 

They do state they plan to get rid of all them this fiscal year but honestly that is being optimistic. Over a million when they will be competing with the Wii U? Not likely. 



Turkish says and I'm allowed to quote that: Uncharted 3 and God Of War 3 look better than Unreal Engine 4 games will or the tech demo does. Also the Naughty Dog PS3 ENGINE PLAYS better than the UE4 ENGINE.

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kitler53 on 18 May 2012

thread title is pure gold. love it.



mike_intellivision on 18 May 2012

The original outing on the Wii sold well. But then it only released one game between Wii launch and PS3/Xbox 360 launch.

The problem was that rather than build on the Wii success, THQ decided to try to sell it on other consoles. That strategy - let's move a Wii success to other platforms - has not worked well this generation (think of deBlob). So instead of trying to keep the Wii marketed in place, it went for broke with new hardware and ended up being broke.

Of course, a lot of things have been successful one time and not so much the second time on the Wii. So there is no guarantee that trying to build up things on the Wii would have worked ... but it had a higher probability.

Mike from Morgantown



      


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PSwii60 on 18 May 2012

Having actually own one, I actually do see a potential in it. It wasn't so much that uDraw failed, it's THQ's fault in handling it incorrectly. Creating a brand new IP that doesn't quite fall into a pick-up and play fun like Just Dance is one thing, Releasing it on HD consoles is too ambitious.
If THQ were to revive the series, it'll have to be on a much, much smaller scale and exclusive to Wii U only. Market it right, and give us more reasons (games) to buy it.

It's funny because when I bought it at the time, I thought it'd be a cool thing to have a tablet for a controller. I didn't know Nintendo would actually release one :)



oldschoolfool on 18 May 2012

It floped for a reason,they should just let it go period.



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PSwii60 on 18 May 2012
Fusioncode said:
The uDraw failed for a reason. Let it stay dead, If they resurrect that then Nintendo might as well erectness the virtual boy.

Nintendo did. It's called the 3DS (Well integrated with the DS)



Sal.Paradise on 18 May 2012
PSwii60 said:
Fusioncode said:
The uDraw failed for a reason. Let it stay dead, If they resurrect that then Nintendo might as well erectness the virtual boy.

Nintendo did. It's called the 3DS (Well integrated with the DS)

Shhh, don't tell anybody!

The Virtual Boy never existed!

http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/nintendo_systems_history_58.html