THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year" - Kotaku Comments

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

PaulMorel — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:36:10 MDT

Nary a mention of STALKER, which THQ distributed in the US, and was their best title in FY08.

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

Nirual — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:23:28 MDT

They should just stop trying to make cheap bucks with liscensed shovelware.
Even there is competition, and the more people flood the same market (the Wii) with that crap, the harder it is to sell. No rocket science.

Nirual

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

Deilgyre — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:03:57 MDT

"Insufficient game quality" -
Hey THQ, how about finally patching that disgracefull MotoGP '07 bug on Xbox360, where your rider seed # is reset back to 100 every time you go into the settings menu. Yea, thanks for that.

Deilgyre

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

dalejrfanfreak — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:17:48 MDT

Well lets see how many fun THQ games have I played this year.....oh that's right none! On top of that, they are totally screwing up Red Faction in my opinion. They should not fix something that isn't broken.

dalejrfanfreak

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

PhoenixSS — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:18:35 MDT

The part that we don't see is the part where they send out e-mails and hold company meetings to tell all their artists and software engineers that putting in 70 hour weeks just ain't enough and that if you want to be part of the "team" you'll have to suck it up and put in more effort.

aka: Get divorced, forget your children's names, and hunker down because you've got to feed the machine.

Sadly, only one side of the business is truly all fun and games.

PhoenixSS

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

KM91 — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:33:25 MDT

Ouch. Well, Deadly Creatures looks good.

KM91

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

JohnnyLA — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:05:50 MDT

I have confidence that Volition (the anchor with both of those titles) will come out swinging and do good for THQ.

JohnnyLA

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

Spiderbait — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:01:17 MDT

I saw no mention of Supreme commander. That's one of my favorite strategy games!

Spiderbait

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

dumptruck — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:39:34 MDT

I loved Fontlines: Fuel of War. Too bad they hosed it with bad marketing. Should have called it something less lame. It's literally WW3 why not allude to that in the title?

dumptruck

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

NoahSteam — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:21:28 MDT

Wait.. they made more than a billion dollars but still lost 35 million?! There are clearly some really awful financial decisions being made there if they burned through a billion dollars.. that's just ridiculous.

NoahSteam

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

stevesan — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:07:20 MDT

@Moonshadow101: Yeah, I gotta admit, that was a little surprising to me. At least they're not blaming it on the economy, piracy, or GTA4.

stevesan

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

Grimmjow Jeagerjaques — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:57:34 MDT

@kspraydad4: I blame Nintendo XD, seriously who the hell would buy a...Hannah *shudders* mon...ta...na... game (that just send a nasty shiver down my spine)

Grimmjow Jeagerjaques

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

Roflcopter_Down: Wants you to follow HIM! — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:38:49 MDT

More Company of Heroes = more money. Do it.

Roflcopter_Down: Wants you to follow HIM!

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

Vidunder — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:35:01 MDT

At least they don't fake it to save the face, saying that their titles performed excellently and that they rule... only to declare bankrupt a few months later.

Vidunder

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

mizzle — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:34:21 MDT

Ill buy Deadly Creatures. And they should make more wrestling games for the 64, I had like 4 of those when I was a kid.

mizzle

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

Chief2BeaR — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:32:45 MDT

Even more translations:

"We faced a number of challenges, but I believe we have the right strategy to overcome these challenges and achieve significant growth."

You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son.

Chief2BeaR

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

Fyren — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:21:10 MDT

Well, now you know DoW mmo is definitely coming.

Why wouldn't they try the dive?, they got enough fanboys.

Fyren

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

kspraydad4 — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:19:38 MDT

More Translation:

"struggles were due to a crowded and competitive market for kids' games"

Our Wii shovelware couldn't compete with Cooking Mama.

kspraydad4

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

ChrisLionheart — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:17:00 MDT

THQ needs to revive the WCW/NWO type games. It was 4 player mayhem of pure delight!

ChrisLionheart

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

Moonshadow101 — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:15:02 MDT

@PissedPS3Fan: Lay off, eh? They had the balls to blame "Insufficient game quality" instead of fairies and goblins. It's commendable.

Moonshadow101

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

nesskimo — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:11:06 MDT

They are making a Warhammer 40,000 MMO, out of Vigil.

nesskimo

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

diablofreak — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:09:46 MDT

they should churn out more Saint's Row games immediately after the GTAIV craze dies down a bit

diablofreak

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

interstate78 — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:07:17 MDT

... and they need to make a WH40k mmo. I'd buy that.

interstate78

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

balls187 upside yo head — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:02:43 MDT

When I was 17,
I drank some very good beer.
I drank some very good beer
I purchased with a fake ID
My name was Brian McGee
I stayed up listening to Queen
When I was 17.

balls187 upside yo head

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

PissedPS3Fan — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:02:34 MDT

Here's a handy translation guide:

Quote:
"Juiced, Stuntman and Conan that ultimately 'were simply not competitive.'"

Translation:
"Compared to Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4, our games sucked."

Quote:
"Insufficient game quality led to inadequate sellthrough, resulting in markdowns at retail,"

Translation:
"Nobody bought our shitty games, so retailers booted them to the bargain bin, where they STILL didn't sell"

Hope this helps everyone.

PissedPS3Fan

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

interstate78 — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:56:37 MDT

I used to think of THQ as the bargain binners extraordinaires.

In recent years they've really improved the quality of their products. I own a bunch of their games now (and Stuntman was excellent).

You'll get better THQ! no biggies!

interstate78

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

NoahIdea — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:51:44 MDT

I'm excited for the ne RF, and I hope it'll help them out of this funk. Although using Gary Busey to counter the biggest media release ever isn't helping things out too much

NoahIdea

THQ: "Fiscal Year 08 Was A Very Tough Year"

Hirmetrium — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:50:37 MDT

what? nothing to say about the potential of Dawn of War 2? Meh.

Hirmetrium