Homefront Scores Cause THQ Stock Dip
Despite Homefront’s predications it appears review scores, not Koreans, will be the biggest threat to THQ. Scores have been rolling in and they aren’t fantastic.
Homefront’s Metacritic 73 average on consoles (75 on PS3 and 71 on Xbox 360) and 74 on PC at the time of writing wasn’t good enough for investors, and it has supposedly caused a drop of around 21% in stock value.
Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey told Reuters that “the score is a bit of a disaster” he also said “the market is quality driven, you need at least a score of 80 and above on Metacritic to do well”.
THQ are hoping that the score doesn’t speak for the sales. Chief Executive Brian Farrell said that “It’s a mass market title. Let’s see what the players think”.
This is either going to cause developers to pump a lot more money into their games to ensure quality, or increase the shady underhand tactics of review embargoes. I have the tiniest inkling that it won’t be the former.
via: GameSpot
Can anyone explain the significance of the picture posted in the article?
I guess I’m interested in finding out how the image came to be and how it relates to the game… :D
@Jack Frost: Its a picture from the film “trading places” which involves a stock broker. It involves stocks like this story does :)
The head on the right is from the Homefront cover.
@Ben Stead: Oh, I recognized all of the elements, I just couldn’t figure out how they came together for the picture. :D
For some reason I wasn’t making the ‘stock’ connection…
@Jack Frost: Haha, I’ve recently gained some photo shop skills. I hope you at least found it a bit entertaining when you realised!
It amazes me that anybody actually expected Homefront to be good.