THQ keen on dishing out more sequels
The recent NPD findings painted a positive outlook for the future of original IPs and may have implied that most gamers are already sick of playing sequels, but that doesn’t seem to affect THQ. In the Pacific Crest Securities’ Digital Media and Entertainment forum, THQ’s CFO Ed Zinser emphasized that they intend to derive more of its revenue from intellectual properties it owns – which means we should expect more sequels from them.
Some of those “intellectual properties” are the licensed franchises like the WWE, Pixar, and Nickelodeon games. He further explained it by saying:
We’ve got Saints Row which was launched recently, this year, Red Faction from a few years back which you’ll be seeing in the future as a sequel, Stuntman scheduled for fiscal ’08, Juiced, which is a racing title, MX, which is an off-road racing title, and Destroy All Humans! as well…All launched over the past several years [and sold] a million units-plus, and all titles we believe have sequel potential for the future…You should expect to see sequels on varying platforms–most of them multiplatform–probably on an every-other-year kind of timeframe over the cycle.
Aside from that, the THQ honcho divulged that they are planning to launch a couple of new intellectual properties a year throughout the console cycle. He also said that THQ’s list of licensed annualized games will also be expanding. Well, we have nothing against sequels, as long as they offer something new on the table.
Via GameSpot
The recent NPD findings painted a positive outlook for the future of original IPs and may have implied that most gamers are already sick of playing sequels, but that doesn’t seem to affect THQ. In the Pacific Crest Securities’ Digital Media and Entertainment forum, THQ’s CFO Ed Zinser emphasized that they intend to derive more of its revenue from intellectual properties it owns – which means we should expect more sequels from them.
Some of those “intellectual properties” are the licensed franchises like the WWE, Pixar, and Nickelodeon games. He further explained it by saying:
We’ve got Saints Row which was launched recently, this year, Red Faction from a few years back which you’ll be seeing in the future as a sequel, Stuntman scheduled for fiscal ’08, Juiced, which is a racing title, MX, which is an off-road racing title, and Destroy All Humans! as well…All launched over the past several years [and sold] a million units-plus, and all titles we believe have sequel potential for the future…You should expect to see sequels on varying platforms–most of them multiplatform–probably on an every-other-year kind of timeframe over the cycle.
Aside from that, the THQ honcho divulged that they are planning to launch a couple of new intellectual properties a year throughout the console cycle. He also said that THQ’s list of licensed annualized games will also be expanding. Well, we have nothing against sequels, as long as they offer something new on the table.
Via GameSpot
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