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Peach64

That's a shame, but I'm all for people doing what they want. One thing that bugs me across all media is to just keep pumping something out until it flops. I can't wait to see what Ken does next.

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sinalefa

Bad news. I feel sorry for all those people that may lose their jobs.

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Captain_Toad

You made bioshock infinite and you shut down your doors?! What?

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Platypus

Kind of expected after Infinite was a disaster.

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Platypus wrote:

Kind of expected after Infinite was a disaster.

What are you talking about?!

the switch is pretty cool.

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CanisWolfred

Platypus wrote:

Kind of expected after Infinite was a disaster.

What disaster? It did pretty well, some issues with DLC aside.

But anyways, they're doing it for reasons other than money. The guy wants to focus on smaller games now. Though I agree with Kodeen, firing wasn't the best idea to go with there...

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Platypus

NintendoXtreme1 wrote:

Platypus wrote:

Kind of expected after Infinite was a disaster.

What are you talking about?!

Before the game came out there were several delays, a lot of people were laid off during development, and a large portion of the game was cut, including multiplayer. I don't know how much money it made, but I can't imagine they made much money after all the problems.

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Marakuto

Considering how sucessful Bioshock: Infinite was in 2013, you would think this would be the least expected thing to happen but it's still sad news.

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Ryno

So.... no chance for a Wii U port then?

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OptometristLime

Platypus wrote:

NintendoXtreme1 wrote:

Platypus wrote:

Kind of expected after Infinite was a disaster.

What are you talking about?!

Before the game came out there were several delays, a lot of people were laid off during development, and a large portion of the game was cut, including multiplayer. I don't know how much money it made, but I can't imagine they made much money after all the problems.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/30/bioshock-infinite-sales-pas...

"The title has crossed the 4 million units selling mark, and we expect it to become the top-selling release in the BioShock franchise."

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GuSolarFlare

well that guy earned the title of irrational so he might as well open it up


on a serious note I feel bad about the people losing their jobs....

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Ralizah

Cool. Hope his future games are half as thought - provoking as the Bioshock games have been.

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LzWinky

How very...irrational

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cookiex

OptometristLime wrote:

Platypus wrote:

NintendoXtreme1 wrote:

Platypus wrote:

Kind of expected after Infinite was a disaster.

What are you talking about?!

Before the game came out there were several delays, a lot of people were laid off during development, and a large portion of the game was cut, including multiplayer. I don't know how much money it made, but I can't imagine they made much money after all the problems.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/30/bioshock-infinite-sales-pas...

"The title has crossed the 4 million units selling mark, and we expect it to become the top-selling release in the BioShock franchise."

The game cost over $100m to produce, so even over four million units may not have been enough to be worth the investment.

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Magikarp3

tbh it just sounds like Levine got bored of the AAA business and wanted to revert to something smaller. There wasn't really anything financial to do with Infinite that caused this. I can't really blame him for thinking like that, although I do wish he somehow didn't lay off nearly all his employees.

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1337man1233

cookiex wrote:

OptometristLime wrote:

Platypus wrote:

NintendoXtreme1 wrote:

Platypus wrote:

Kind of expected after Infinite was a disaster.

What are you talking about?!

Before the game came out there were several delays, a lot of people were laid off during development, and a large portion of the game was cut, including multiplayer. I don't know how much money it made, but I can't imagine they made much money after all the problems.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/30/bioshock-infinite-sales-pas...

"The title has crossed the 4 million units selling mark, and we expect it to become the top-selling release in the BioShock franchise."

The game cost over $100m to produce, so even over four million units may not have been enough to be worth the investment.

i put it in a calculator and it made 240 million assumming that all copies were sold at retail price

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