Red Faction franchise shelved - Blu-ray Forum

Grim Reaper · 07-30-2011, 04:42 AM

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Due to the disappointing sales of Red Faction: Armageddon and its digital spin-off, Red Faction: Battlegrounds, THQ has decided to halt the series and move its developer's to other project.

After the company's post-earnings conference call, which sees its first quarter result in losses, THQ CEO Brian Farrell said: "We are disappointed in our first quarter financial performance. Sales of Red Faction: Armageddon and our licensed kids titles were below our expectations."

The curent audience of Red Faction is "niche," Farrell said, "Given that that title, now in two successive versions, has just found a niche, we do not intend to carry forward with that franchise in any meaningful way." He went on to add: "In today's hit-driven, core gaming business, even highly-polished titles with a reasonable following like Red Faction face a bar that continues to move higher and higher," he said. "Moving forward, our core game titles must meet a very high quality standard with strong creative and product differentiation, appeal to a broad audience, and be marketed aggressively," Farrell added.

So what will happen to developer Volition? Farrel said that they will be helping with Guillermo del Toro's upcoming project, inSANE, which is set to begin in 2013.

Al_The_Strange · 07-30-2011, 07:42 AM

Sounds like they just gave up in the face of a challenge.

On the other hand, a del Toro game sounds much more appealing.

SleeperAgent · 07-30-2011, 08:07 AM

Good riddance. They've been going down hill since they made Red Faction Guerrilla 3rd person. RF2 with multitap on PS2 is still one of the most fun multiplayer split screen games ever.

Nerdkiller likes BD · 07-30-2011, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by SleeperAgent

Good riddance. They've been going down hill since they made Red Faction Guerrilla 3rd person. RF2 with multitap on PS2 is still one of the most fun multiplayer split screen games ever.

I disagree completely. RFG was one of the best multiplayer experiences I've had on the PS3, but they had to screw that up by removing that from Armageddon.

Also, it was RFG was better than RF2.

Rblu-Dblu · 07-30-2011, 01:29 PM

Sounds to me like theyre just unwilling to put in the development time and money to make a better game. They want to release the same old game on the same old platform and still reach the same sales numbers. Ask EA, it doesnt work that way unless you're holding an exclusive license.

Gamma_Winstead · 07-31-2011, 12:04 AM

The two games sold poorly because they suck, not because RF is niche.

07-30-2011, 04:42 AM	#1
Grim Reaper Blu-ray Duke Top contributor Member since:Jun 2006 Location:Let Me In! 4K collection:499 Blu-ray collection:2022 DVD collection:25 Trading Score:13	Red Faction franchise shelved http://www.ps3.qj.net Due to the disappointing sales of Red Faction: Armageddon and its digital spin-off, Red Faction: Battlegrounds, THQ has decided to halt the series and move its developer's to other project. After the company's post-earnings conference call, which sees its first quarter result in losses, THQ CEO Brian Farrell said: "We are disappointed in our first quarter financial performance. Sales of Red Faction: Armageddon and our licensed kids titles were below our expectations." The curent audience of Red Faction is "niche," Farrell said, "Given that that title, now in two successive versions, has just found a niche, we do not intend to carry forward with that franchise in any meaningful way." He went on to add: "In today's hit-driven, core gaming business, even highly-polished titles with a reasonable following like Red Faction face a bar that continues to move higher and higher," he said. "Moving forward, our core game titles must meet a very high quality standard with strong creative and product differentiation, appeal to a broad audience, and be marketed aggressively," Farrell added. So what will happen to developer Volition? Farrel said that they will be helping with Guillermo del Toro's upcoming project, inSANE, which is set to begin in 2013.

07-30-2011, 07:42 AM	#2
Al_The_Strange Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Apr 2009 Location:Out there...past them trees... Home Theater Gallery:126 4K collection:1125 Blu-ray collection:4949 DVD collection:530 Digital collection:1013 Blu-ray reviews: 132 Trading Score:32	Sounds like they just gave up in the face of a challenge. On the other hand, a del Toro game sounds much more appealing.

07-30-2011, 08:07 AM	#3
SleeperAgent Banned Member since:Nov 2008 Location:Plateau of Leng 4K collection:19 Blu-ray collection:22 Trading Score:289	Good riddance. They've been going down hill since they made Red Faction Guerrilla 3rd person. RF2 with multitap on PS2 is still one of the most fun multiplayer split screen games ever.

07-30-2011, 01:29 PM	#5
Rblu-Dblu Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Mar 2009 Location:Trapped on the Death Star 4K collection:4 Blu-ray collection:483 Trading Score:12	Sounds to me like theyre just unwilling to put in the development time and money to make a better game. They want to release the same old game on the same old platform and still reach the same sales numbers. Ask EA, it doesnt work that way unless you're holding an exclusive license.

07-31-2011, 12:04 AM	#6
Gamma_Winstead Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Jul 2007 Location:U.S.G. Ishimura 4K collection:118 Blu-ray collection:764 Blu-ray reviews: 36 Trading Score:6	The two games sold poorly because they suck, not because RF is niche.

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