How will a Pixar-Disney marriage affect THQ?

by Conrad Quilty-Harper { Jan 24th 2006 at 3:00PM }

In the latest edition of the SIG Video Game Journal, the possible effects of a Disney and Pixar merger are discussed in the context of the video games market. Currently the situation is that Pixar is the producer of the movie and Disney is the distributor. If the two companies merge, future movies would undoubtedly be created in a different fashion. In the context of possible effects on the video game market: THQ is scheduled to release a game version of the movie Cars due for simultaneous release in June this year.

If the merger goes ahead and there's a change in control, the market report muses "we wonder how this affects THQ's current licensing with Pixar". There's also the question of THQ's contract to create an additional four games based on Pixar movies after Cars. Confusing the situation even further is the existence of Buena Vista Games, Disney's video game publishing arm. It's unclear how a merged Disney and Pixar would handle the creation and publishing of video games based upon their movies.

[Sorry, no link is available. The SIG Journal is an email based report.]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ryan @ Jan 24th 2006 3:17PM

I don't think that current deals will be affected, but you very well may see a change in Pixar video game developers.

I'm not familiar with Buena Vista Games. What have they developed lately?

Hube @ Jan 24th 2006 7:38PM

I do believe they(Buena Vista Games) did Tron 2.0

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