The Street: Microsoft recently upped its sales forecast for Kinect from 3 million to 5 million units. How do you expect the success of Kinect to affect your software sales?
Brian Farrell: The big picture win is if the Kinect broadens the audience of people interacting with the Xbox360. Right now, we love the 360, but it's very much a core-gamer machine.
With the Kinect, it could go mainstream, which means a win for us and a win for the industry. We have fitness games, dance games, activity-based games and family-based games. Anything that expands the market that we can put our IP on is a win.
Alex & Mike talk Biomutant, a game from Experiment 101/THQ Nordiq you likely have not heard of. While the AAA side of the industry tends to homogenization and imitative, cinematic presentation, “AA” games remain creative and innovative in 2021. Drawing on inspirations as varied as Dark Souls, third person shooters & kung fu cinema, Biomutant is Ratchet & Clank on acid, developed by a team of 20 people.
Remember THQ? They published such games as Avatar: The Last Airbender, Darksiders I & II, the Destroy All Humans series, Homefront, the Red Faction series, and Saint's Row 1-3. Almost as famous as their games were the THQ marketing stunts, including a Golden Wii.
PlaySation gamers are in for a treat today! Not only did Sony roll out its “Double Discount” PlayStation Store sale, but there’s also a THQ Humbe Bundle PS4 discount happening too!
