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THQ Closing 3 Studios, Lays Off 200 (As It Should)

Posted on Wednesday, August 10 @ 12:48:08 Eastern by


THQ will be closing both of its studios in Australia and a development team in Phoenix, laying off about 200 members of staff. This comes after the closing of Homefront Kaos Studios and layoffs at Volition in June.

CEO Brian Farrell explains that this is simply cutting out the fat:

With this realignment, we are narrowing our focus to high-quality owned IP with broad appeal that can be leveraged across multiple platforms, and to work with the best talent in the industry. By right-sizing our internal development capacities for our console portfolio, our five internal studios are focused on delivering high-quality games with talented teams driving the execution of those titles to market.

As we have outlined in our business strategies, we are making shifts to reduce movie-based and licensed kids' video games in our portfolio, which underscores our strategy to move away from games that will not generate strong profits in the future.

THQ has already halted future titles in the Red Faction and MX vs. ATV franchises due to poor sales, but this doesn't mean that they are on the way out. In fact, their current lineup shown at E3 looks beastly: UFC Undisputed 3, WWE '12, Warhammer 40000: Space Marine, Darksiders II, Guillermo del Toro's Insane, Tomonobu Itagaki's Devil's Third, Patrice Desilet's mystery IP, and my favorite, Saints Row: The Third.

If anything, this restructuring will makes all those games better.

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Related Games:   Darksiders II, Devil's Third, Homefront, Saints Row: The Third, UFC Undisputed 3, WWE '12
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  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
    A translation of Brian Farrell‘s statement:

    We’re firing a bunch of people, focusing only on games that sell well and that we own, so we can make more money.
    0 2
  • xxmrcyanidexx
    xxmrcyanidexx
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
    Better than, "We are firing a bunch of people, to work on shitty games we know people will buy so that we can make more money"
    0 2
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 2:12 pm
    Yes, that is the alternate translation.
    0 2
  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
    Treyarch translation
    0 1
  • Ranim
    Ranim
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 3:18 pm
    Either Australians are talentless idiots that have managed to produce only 2 passable games ever (Bioshock and KKND,) or they're so financially strained in that country that they can't do a full development cycle most of the time.
    1 0
  • Ranim
    Ranim
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
    Oops! I forgot Shadowrun and MechWarrior (LA Noire doesn't count)
    1 0
  • Ranim
    Ranim
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
    Oops again, MechWarrior was American, the SNES version was Aussie
    1 0
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 4:08 pm
    Bioshock was American made too....
    0 1
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
    Yeah, they've needed to cut the crap and focus on the big stuff for a long time.
    0 2
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 4:08 pm
    But... but... what about SpongeBob?!?!
    0 1
  • Eyebrowsbv31
    Eyebrowsbv31
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 8:51 pm
    how the world works. THQ is still a pretty solid company; cutting out the fat is exactly right; don't make good games, you go bye bye.
    0 1
  • Eyebrowsbv31
    Eyebrowsbv31
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
    Also add: this gives those laid off the chance to show their gamer meddle and developer meddle and reform as a new companies, individual units, and make "indie" titles for release on the web. See it as progress for the ambitious, loss only for the lazy.
    0 1
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Aug 10th, 2011 at 9:31 pm
    There's a UFC Undisputed 3??? When was the 2nd one.....
    0 1
  • nishrit
    nishrit
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Aug 11th, 2011 at 2:09 am
    I actually had a friend working for volition who was laid off in march or something....and now hes moved from working on Red Faction to working on Big Buck Hunter....
    0 1

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