THQ Sees Massive Success on Nintendo DS & Wii
on 08.08.2008 at 11:33
Posted by Adam Riley (jesusraz)
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THQ, Industry, Wii, Nintendo DS, Big Beach Sports
Posted by Adam Riley (jesusraz)
Tags:
THQ, Industry, Wii, Nintendo DS, Big Beach Sports Recent News
Just as it was revealed yesterday that Bandai Namco was having success on Nintendo formats, THQ has now revealed it is also benefitting from strong support of Wii and DS. Whilst the company may have seen losses triple to US$27 million, it saw huge upturns in fortune across both the Nintendo DS and Wii formats, with earnings for each respective system being US$27.2 million (up 55% over last year) and US$23.3 million (jumping a whopping 269% over the same time last year!). Wall-E and the Wii's Big Beach Sports were singled out as the big software sellers.
Below is the full list of how each system performed for THQ, in rank order:
Will the likes of de Blob be able to help Wii and DS sales rise even more over the next quarter? And what other THQ games are you looking forward to?
Below is the full list of how each system performed for THQ, in rank order:
- 1.) Nintendo DS ($27.3 million)
- 2.) Nintendo Wii ($23.3 million)
- 3.) PC ($23.2 million)
- 4.) Xbox 360 ($20.1 million)
- 5.) PlayStation 2 ($19.9 million)
- 6.) PlayStation Portable ($10.4 million)
- 7.) PlayStation 3 ($6.7 million)
- 8.) Mobile ($5.1 million)
- 9.) Game Boy Advance ($1.6 million)
- 10.) GameCube ($53,000)
- 11.) Xbox ($0)
Will the likes of de Blob be able to help Wii and DS sales rise even more over the next quarter? And what other THQ games are you looking forward to?
More on Big Beach Sports (Wii)

Developer: HB Studios Multimedia
Publisher: THQ
Genre: Sport
Players: 4
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L81 Giant Bowser
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<(^o^)>Wall-E and the Wii's Big Beach Sports were singled out as the big software sellers.
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Darkflame Reply Quote #2

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noneSurely those havnt been out long enough to be significant in these figures though ? :-/
Stulaw Reply Quote #3

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STUI can't wait for de blob. It lookss totaly awsome.
Wii beach sports is aload of crao, can't beleive how much advertisingn there is for it. Wjich is the only reason that it sells well at all. Wall-E being a movie tie-in was bound to sell well.
Wii beach sports is aload of crao, can't beleive how much advertisingn there is for it. Wjich is the only reason that it sells well at all. Wall-E being a movie tie-in was bound to sell well.
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mOojc Reply Quote #4

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mOojcYou know Big Beach Sports isn't THAT bad. It's great fun. WAll-E on the other hand... lulz.
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