THQ refuses to Destroy All Humans! on PS3

by Andrew Yoon { Nov 26th 2008 at 3:45PM }

The PS3 version of Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon has been mysteriously canceled a week before its release. Originally scheduled for December 1st, the game will now ship exclusively on Xbox 360. According to THQ, "development issues" have been blamed for this cancellation.

Perhaps those "issues" involved forgetting to actually start development of the PS3 version. Or perhaps THQ just didn't care. Or maybe it's because THQ fired everyone that might've even worked on a PS3 version. Regardless, we doubt many of you are feeling the loss.

[Via NeoGAF]

Tags: destroy-all-humans, path-of-the-furon, thq

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

dabamf @ Nov 26th 2008 3:50PM

Yeah, I don't really care. I want to get Resistance 2 and LBP. Shouldn't the article say, "the game will now ship exclusively on Xbox 360"?

Andrew Yoon @ Nov 26th 2008 3:58PM

Yep. Fixed.

JAH75157 @ Nov 26th 2008 3:52PM

i may of rented it, if i found the time between all the other great games.

Jake @ Nov 27th 2008 2:10PM

its a download ent it?

tbh, thq are a pretty rubbish dev company, to me smackdown gets worse every year, just shows if they are having problems developing this simple game, they must have some real rubbish devs

sean @ Nov 26th 2008 3:56PM

never even knew about this game. so no loss to me

reyes @ Nov 26th 2008 4:04PM

Oh no! Now we'll never be able to... Wait, who the hell buys Destroy All Humans?

lorddshadow2 @ Dec 1st 2008 5:28PM

the first 2 were actually pretty fun. oh well. saves money. and i need to rank up on cod:waw. and make my lbp level a bit easier. too much to do, too little time.

Tom @ Nov 27th 2008 5:02PM

Me :(

PSN ID -- TheUnforgivenII @ Nov 26th 2008 4:05PM

With all the good games coming in weeks/already in store who cares of DAH? :p

Rodrigo @ Nov 26th 2008 4:06PM

i see that thq and other companies has forgotten who made what they are right now by cancelling games or not developing games on the playstation brand... and yes the playstation brand made what they are right now

Bob @ Nov 26th 2008 4:06PM

The first one wasn't that great anyways so it's no loss. It'll probably fail just as hard as BanjoKazooie Nut and Bolts did.

ice~ @ Nov 26th 2008 4:58PM

Yea but unlike DAH, Banjo is a good game. Just because a game doesn't sell phenominally doesn't mean it's not good...I mean look at Little Big Planet, it's a great game but it didn't even reach 1million copies sold (correct me if I'm wrong on that one). Even dead space failed in sales...it's sad...so sad

Bob @ Nov 26th 2008 8:28PM

@ice: The original Banjo was great, but Nuts and Bolts just ugh, strayed too far from the original formula. I know Rare wanted to make a new game and experience, but why change something that was so great?!

Jerses @ Nov 26th 2008 5:56PM

@ice

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, dont say does words in holy ground...people here will burn you to dead if you tell them LBP and dead space didnt sell well :P

DrunkRaba @ Nov 26th 2008 6:31PM

@ ice
No, in a 4 day period it didn't reach 1 million, that won't be till we get the november results. I'm sure it is already over 1 million worldwide by now.

kentuckyfried @ Nov 26th 2008 9:52PM

@ice~

Whoa...I was under the impression that Dead Space did really well in sales. I LOVE that game.

according to VGchartz though, it really didn't get alot of love:

xbox 360: 0.48 million

ps3: 0.35 million

I hope the sequels don't get nixxed as a result. -_-

Arnon @ Nov 27th 2008 2:03AM

How about playing Nuts & Bolts before criticizing it?

In fact, how about playing Nuts & Bolts, and then go and play B-K on the Arcade.. the luster for the 2 have completely diminished.. trust me. The series is one of my favs. and B-K: N&B has more charm, humor, better gameplay and creativity than the first 2 installments combined.

Banjo-Kazooie 1 for XBLA recieved a score of 80. Does that mean it's bad? Hell no! Banjo-Kazooie: N&B will blow your mind away if you play the full version. (I built some insane things rofl).

spikeylee @ Nov 26th 2008 4:10PM

They're still making this series?! I really enjoyed the first one on PS2, but I thought they had already milked it for everything it was worth after seeing Big Willy Unleashed!

LAZoftheTamarinds @ Nov 26th 2008 4:13PM

What the Hell? I was actually looking forward to renting this later on. I enjoyed the first 2 (not the best games but fun nonetheless) the wii one I rented but it was crap.

Dissapointing but I got other games to play.

Also, 2 DAH games cancelled for Sony Platforms in this year.

Shaun @ Nov 26th 2008 4:13PM

That's fine with me, but I would be really upset if a game I wanted was cancelled a week before release. That's pretty shitty of them. Maybe they should stick to Worms. That's the only game I like from THQ.

wolfster @ Nov 26th 2008 4:13PM

With an attitude like that hopefully more get canceled. Don't worry though, plenty of PSone and PS2 games to play on the PS3....

matt @ Nov 26th 2008 4:14PM

I care! I was looking forward to it. Not in an insta-buy way, more like a buy-it-at-some-point way, but still, once again, as a PS3 owner I get the shaft.

Mein Bratwurst @ Nov 26th 2008 4:14PM

TLDR; THQ's studios are lazy.

MexicanTerrorist @ Nov 26th 2008 4:15PM

Development issues? The game is a week away! How the hell did they get "development issues" when the game should already have gone gold at this point?
But regardless, THQ can suck it. DAH 1 was alright, but DAH 2 blew chunks.

Christian Rivera @ Nov 27th 2008 12:00AM

lol I saw you in Gametrailers.com, lol so funny!

lee @ Nov 26th 2008 4:21PM

lol i thought the first destroy all humans was good but after that it was shit, 360 can have it no one cares anyway, it wont sell well anyway with all the good games that people actually want to play comming out at this time of the year, and without the ps3 version it will probs sell 5 copies instead of 10 now

Mentality @ Nov 26th 2008 4:31PM

HA! give me one reason why we should be remotley bothered about this, 360 can have it lol. Destroy All Humans is probably one of the worst games I have ever played in my lifetime! If the 360 fans have any kind of self respect they would think twice about even trying to throw this back in our face, hell I bet even they know there onto a looser with that one.

Hala Madrid!! (THE BIRD IS THE WORD!!) @ Nov 26th 2008 7:18PM

Dude we don't want this shit.

They should cancel it for the 360 and make it exclusively for the Wii.

We don't need this shovelware in our consoles.

Mentality @ Nov 27th 2008 9:47AM

Ha! I figured you guys wouldnt want it either. What a pile of crap game.

CrzyNick @ Nov 26th 2008 4:33PM

Noo another great exclusive for the 360...wait what are we talking about?

Gosh darn it, I'll be forced to play games like R2, LBP, PoP, COD:WaW. How will I survive?

ottoman673 @ Nov 26th 2008 6:47PM

You can't come up with more than 2 console-exclusive titles that are worth playing on the PS3 this winter?

Hm, says a lot about your product..

Gears 2, Fable 2, Left 4 Dead, Infinite Undiscovery, Last Remnant, Tales of Vesperia...

Have fun with your Resistance and LittleBigPlanet.
Oh, and home if it comes out sometime this year..

Invisible Robot Meat @ Nov 26th 2008 7:00PM

Hey ottoman, I think I hear second grade calling you. 'My list is longer than your list!' The fact that you have time to troll in a PS3 blog post says a lot about 'your product'. Are you waiting for your coffin?

Efeez1986 @ Nov 26th 2008 7:23PM

@ottoman673

Gears 2 is boring after the first play through and the online sucks. Plus it's very overrated, it's nothing compared to these other great games out like Fallout 3. L4D is a only fun for a limited time because the gameplay isn't that good, it's the co op that adds some enjoyment to it. The rest of those games just aren't good at all so naming them off doesn't mean anything. If it wasn't for all these good multiplatform titles this year 360 owners would be very bored right now.

AltCtrlPwn @ Nov 26th 2008 8:12PM

@ottoman

I'd just like to lol at the mention of "The Last Remnant."

You mean this glorious, 6.6 average review title?

http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/games/g-38372/tt/metareviews.aspx

Also, +1 on Invisible Robot Meat's comment. No need to add more, we know you're just a troll.

Arnon @ Nov 27th 2008 2:08AM

efeez, I realize he's trolling and that you are trying to contradict him, but seriously? Gears 2 is only good for one play through? No.. I've played through it like 3 times already. Left 4 Dead's gameplay isn't that good? Usually a person will dislike a VALVe game for 3 reasons:

1. It's not on their console of choice(360/Wii/PS3/PC)

2. They just completely suck at VALVe games.

3. Just hate VALVe in general with no reasonable reason.

C'mon dude.. At least respect a good game when you see one. That's why I'm saving up for a PS3.. I'm wanting to get a few titles like LBP, MGS4 and Warhawk.

Arnon @ Nov 27th 2008 2:09AM

@AltCtlPwn

You realize The Last Remnant is going to be on the PS3 as well, resulting in the fact that it doesn't help your case one bit?

Arnon @ Nov 27th 2008 2:10AM

Also lol @ using N4G as a reasonable site.. All those blogs from the people who post on the site should TOTALLY be counted as news. Rofl.

deaftly @ Nov 26th 2008 4:35PM

The first one was kinda fun :\

Voshempa @ Nov 26th 2008 4:56PM

Daww. I never really played the other DAH games and was looking forward to starting on the PS3. This is really low and ridiculous for THQ, regardless of what game. I'll get over it. There are plenty of other games to play.

DETH-DEFIANCE @ Nov 26th 2008 4:59PM

Oh no! Looks like Xbox has that "killer app" they've been looking for!!!! Looks like PS3 is a failed console now... Seariously THQ is more of a sinking ship than Atari ever would have been, no? They need to get their brains together (or whats left of the ones not fired) and think of some good original titles, because they will not be getting money from a quick fix solution like Destroy all humans!.

Sancho @ Nov 26th 2008 5:08PM

from the preview i saw from e3 it looked like it was coming out on psp.... so xbox can have that pos

DeathroW @ Nov 26th 2008 5:10PM

Perhaps it was just the "awesomeness" of the ps3 just ate the game up whenever anyone attempted to run this game.

korwyn @ Nov 26th 2008 5:12PM

pretty smart move. they probably won't have any sale on the PS3 anyway, why bother developing it. at least they could collect some $$$ from M$ for making the game exclusively on the 360. then again, I doubt if anybody would buy this game on the 360 either. so the smartest move is to NOT making the game at all. at least they don't have to waste any time nor money.