Studiet som blev opkøbt af Embracer Group i sidste uge, har udtalt at de har et væld af nye IP-koncepter liggende, som er klar til at kunne blive produceret. Gearbox præsidenten og CEO Randy Pitchford blev for nyligt interviewet af VentureBeat og afslørede at handlen vil hjælpe studiet med at få produceret nogle af deres mange IP-ideer. Pitchford udtalte:
"For gamers there's a couple of things to look at. One is, if you look at the IP that Gearbox already has, you can see there's some incredible and value IP, and all of it has fans that have more demand for entertainment within this IP than we've been capable of delivering. To have the resources for us to chase and pursue and build the kind of content and entertainment that our customers demand from us with all of the existing IP, that should be welcome. The customers are demanding it from us and we're doing the best we can to live up to that.
[...] We have so many new IP concepts that are in our incubator, that are ready to explode. We could wait for the right publishing partner who's willing to make a bet, rather than only take a risk on something they know Gearbox has already done before. Those publishers that have taken risks on us for what we want to see next have always been rewarded. But for some reason they can't be comfortable with that kind of risk. Now we get to take that risk.
We don't have to burn the boats to do it. When Epic did their deal, they ended up selling Gears of War to Microsoft. They burned the boats to show they could do something you'd never expect from Epic before, and gaming got Fortnite out of that. We don't have to do that. We can maximally deliver on the IP we have and pursue new IP as a consequence of this relationship. That's incredibly exciting for me. I feel like we're just getting started."
Umiddelbart lyder det helt fantastisk for Gearbox og Pitchford er da også meget positiv omkring muligheden for at fortsætte sine eksisterende IP'er samtidig med at skabe nye.
Gearbox har lige pt. Homeworld 3 i udvikling hos Blackbird Interactive, som sigter efter at udkomme i Q4 i 2022, men det bliver spændende at høre mere om de mange IP'er som Gearbox efter sigende har liggende klar til produktion.