The fall of THQ – Polygon (2014)

TITLE
The fall of THQ

AUTHOR
Tracy Lien

PUBLICATION
Polygon

YEAR
2014

ARTICLE TYPE
Article

FROM THE ARTICLE
Many blame the company’s fall on the licensed games well drying up. Some pin it on the commercial failure of the company’s uDraw tablet for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Others point to poor management and too many risky bets.

“There isn’t any one, isolated event that killed the company,” says a former THQ executive who asked to not be named. “This was one of the most successful video game businesses in America. We were a billion dollar company. It was complicated.”

THQ suffered a “death by a million spider bites,” the executive says.

COMPANIES MENTIONED
THQ

PEOPLE MENTIONED
Danny Bilson