Danske IO Interactive er totalt selvstændige, og de både udviklede og udgav Hitman 3 tidligere i år. Men det betyder ikke at der ikke har været større selskaber, der har været interesserede i at købe studiet, og dermed også Hitman IP-rettighederne. Faktisk fortæller CEO Hakan Abrak til IGN Unfiltered, at de har modtaget adskillige bud fra interesserede parter, og at disse sågar har været ret attraktive.
"So, there were times where it was close, in some scenarios where we'd be like, we have to find an investor or we have to kind of go with this, but the vision we had, we had taken a risk with doing an MBO. The vision we had for Hitman 2016, we knew that we built a platform where it wasn't just about the sales performance in the first three or six months, we knew we were in for a marathon. So, the team and the management, we believed it would be impactful and we kept being a bit resilient. Some of the offers were really, really attractive, and it would have been easy in many ways, but I think at that point, we were like, we really need to leave this old IO to try to do this ourselves."
Det vides dog ikke hvordan fremtiden ser ud for IO Interactive, der nu arbejder hårdt på Project 007, et spil baseret på James Bond, der skal være starten på en ny franchise for studiet.