Another note coming out of the THQ conference call yesterday was that the recent PSN outage is not having a significant effect on revenues for publishers and developers. Although THQ CEO, Brian Farrell, deferred questions about the PSN outage to Sony, he did claim that there has only been a “small impact” in revenues during this downtime.
Obviously, these perils are going to be greater depending on what type of developer or publisher you are. Â If you’re making independent games selling for 10 dollars a pop with your biggest market being the PlayStation Store, you’re likely not singing the same tune. Â However, since THQ is primarily a core AAA publisher that specializes in boxed retail and the marketing of these types of games, they aren’t feeling the full force of the PSN downtime.
