Saints Row 4?!

HilaryDuffGta,

Saints Row wasn't bought by UbiSoft it was bought by Koch Media alongside the purchase of Volition. Koch Media will announce in a few months what the future of Saints Row will be. One thing we know for sure is that Saints Row 4 development carried on regardless of THQ's situation as THQ's administrator Clearlake Capital put up the funds so that development wouldn't stop. Personally the only thing that will change about Saints Row 4 is the box art, where it previously said THQ it will now say Deep Silver who are Koch Media's publishing arm.

Just to sum up how the sales of THQ's assets went in case there is some confusion as the whole deal wasn't as clear as it could have been.

Sales;

• Koch Media bought Volition and Saints Row as a bundle while also buying the Metro 2033 licence.
• Sega bought Relic Entertainment including the Company of Heroes IP. It's unknown at this time if they bought the Warhammer licence.
• UbiSoft bought THQ Montreal as well as the South Park licence.
• Crytek bought the Homefront IP.
• Take-Two bought a new IP called Evolve from THQ's Turtle Rock Studios.

Acquisitions;

• Crytek acquired most of Vigil Games staff and created Crytek Boston.
• Take-Two acquired the WWE licence from THQ.

Unknown;

• The fate of the Darksiders IP is unknown as no one bought it. It is rumoured that Platinum Games are after it on the cheap.
• It's also unknown what is happening with Vigil Games 'Crawler' work in progress IP.

That about covers the sale of THQ. It's a sad end for one of the larger publishers out there. What was ultimately THQ's downfall was focusing on expensive gimmicks like uDraw which failed so badly, but also not having a Call of Duty. When you look at EA, Activision, Take-Two they all have a franchise or franchises that make the big bucks and THQ lacked that, the biggest IP they had was Saints Row and that wasn't big enough to keep them going unfortunately.

PS. I have seen the IGN video you speak of and the claim by a former developer may be accurate. The game has been in development a while so they could be ready to ship. I hope that if Volition and Koch Media think it's ready that bugs are kept to a minimum as while I expect bugs in a Saints Row product I don't want loads.

I think it will be interesting to see how Saints Row 4 fairs if it does launch a month before GTA V. I know that the recent GTA V delay has left some gamers rather apathetic about GTA and that may go in Saints Rows favor, but on the flip side those waiting for GTA V may not be interested in buying Saints Row 4 seeing as it is so close to GTA V. I think Saints Row will sell okay, but it's not the most ideal situation launching a month before the biggest release of the year.

As for the other games. I think WWE may miss a year as I don't think Take-Two and their sports publishing arm 2K Sports will carry on the partnership with Yukes. I'd quite like 2K Sports to take over completely even if it meant not having a WWE game this year. When it comes to Darksiders I think Platinum Games will get it. I think they are just waiting until the last minute hoping for an extremely low price as Platinum can't really afford the $5-10 million an IP normally sells for.

quote HilaryDuffGta

quote BlackLabel

Koch Media bought Volition and Saints Row as a bundle while also buying the Metro 2033 licence

I've never heard of Koch Media, so will volition be working on saints row alone or will there be another studio as well along side them? Has Koch media ever released any games at all?

Koch Media and their publishing arm Deep Silver have put out a fair few games. Their most successful game is Dead Island which recently broke the 5 million sales mark which is great for a new IP launching so late into a console generation. They are most known for publishing games such as STALKER on PC and also Risen 1 and 2.. They are a smaller publisher but they are growing at quite a rate so they are probably the right company for Volition and Saints Row.

As for Volition developing Saints Row they will be doing it alone as from what I understand Koch Media merely put up the funds for a game to be made they don't meddle with its development. So as it stands Volition will be making Saints Row just like they did at THQ the only difference is the publisher has changed.