In 2009, he told The Official Xbox Magazine (opens in new tab)it was a tempting proposition, but ultimately too much of a financial risk, noting, "You're going to spend 25 million, there's another 10-15 risk just in the publishing process, and then you got another 10-15 million marketing, and we didn't think that we could make that back. This is the second time Pitchford has talked about Gearbox's flirtation with a Blade Runner game. If we'd made it with a business model that did work, it would not have been the Blade Runner game we all would have wanted." In his chat with OPM regarding Aliens: Colonial Marines, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford admitted the studiopassed on the chance tocollaborate with Ridley Scott on a Blade Runner video game, explaining, "That game would've cost like $40m to make and sold about 600,000 units - and that would have been the end of us.There's no rational business model that would have allowed that to make sense.
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