I et nyt interview med OXM kan Randy Pitchford, præsident for Gearbox Software, fortælle hvordan udvikleren på et tidspunkt havde muligheden for at udvikle et spil over den legendariske cyberpunk-thriller Blade Runner, men ikke gik videre med projektet fordi det ikke kunne svare sig økonomisk.
Han siger således til OXM:
"One of my partners, Brian Martell, had Blade Runner on the list [of IPs we wanted to use]," Pitchford told us in an exclusive interview back in issue 53 of OXM. "We chased it down and we coulda had it. But that one failed on the business side, because the way we wanted to do it we wanted to spend 25 million dollars. And when you do the math on that, we weren't going to make it back."
"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. So that's too bad."