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have any movie directors made good games?
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Spielberg had a hand in The Dig and Boom Blox.
EDIT: Oh, and you can pretty much blame him for the World War II FPS.
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| Mike\ wrote: | | have any movie directors made good games? |
I don't want a video game made by a movie director, I want one made by Guilmero Fucking Del Toro.
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| Venom_TAG wrote: | | Wonder where the WWE games will be heading. |
Hopefully a Publisher with enough sense to take the series away from Yukes.
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| StorminNorman wrote: | | Wow, Saints Row 3 must have flopped hard. |
As Verv said, Saints Row 3 did very well. Problem is you cant float an entire company on the success of one game. The financial loss of the uDraw HD and Homefront fiascos, among other things, was simply too high. THQ literally doesn't have the money to continue making games.
| Benza wrote: | | yeah I don't see Voalition going under either, Saints Row is way too big. |
Volition, Relic and Vigil are all wholly owned by THQ, so if nobody picks them up they will close along with the parent company. I do think all three will be snagged though.
All three studios have a lot going for them though. They're fast, efficient, and have a good pedigree. For bigger pubs looking to grow, an already established functional studio sold for cheap is a good buy, rather than having to build your own. I'm pretty confident all three will be snapped up, some probably by Warner.
In updated news, THQ says they haven't cancelled their 2014 line-up. But their wording of the MMO, "has not made any decisions regarding the planned MMO", isn't exactly reassuring. Odds are the MMO is being shopped around.
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Wow I'm really disapointed only because Relic are amazing. Company of heroes is to this day one of the best and most innovative RTS games I have ever played. Its where the idea for Dawn of War 2 came from essentially.
Really hope they get picked up by someone.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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1. Nintendo buy Volition
2. Make Saints Row game set in Mushroom Kingdom
3. ????
4. PROFIT!
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So that Homeworld 3 thing isn't looking so good hey? Shame, but they were terrible at marketing some games, like Red Faction: Guerilla and Armageddon.
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- $56m net loss for the fiscal year.
- $47.7m cash remaining.
- More job losses on the horizon. CEO took a pay cut.
Sooo THQ lost more money in the last fiscal year than they currently have. That, err, isn't very good.
For the next fiscal year they have;
- UFC Undisputed 3
- Darksiders II
- South Park RPG
- Some WWE game
- Metro: Last Light
- Devil's Third
Given all of these (except maybe South Park and Devil's Third) are costing money every day, I don't think the odds are very good of these recuperating lost funds. Darksiders should do okay, UFC and WWE will sell about as well as they usually do, but there's no big 'must have' game in there, which is what they really need. I don't think Metro will do well, and Devil's Third is an unknown.
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Okay, so as shown on the GAF:
Last year THQ cost $900 million to run, this year it's been cut by $160 million with all the staff they've gotten rid of and the like.
Therefore, to so much as break even they need, assuming they get $35 USD per game sold at full RRP (I know it isn't that high):
$730 million / $35 = 20+ million games sold.
Yep, they're gone.
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| Jarrod wrote: | | Devil's Third is an unknown. |
Devil's Third will have poor sales if SotD or Neverdead are any indication.
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