Gearbox Software Scrapped Blade Runner Video Game

Gearbox Software CEO, Randy Pitchford, was interviewed by Official PlayStation Magazine that Gearbox Software could have made a Blade Runner video game. 

Gearbox Software said that they could have made the game as thy acquired the right for it. But the studio didn't expect the game was going to be successful and decided not to develop the game. 

Pitchford stated: "Blade Runner was on [the list]," he said. "We had it too and we were like, 'No, we can't.' That game would've cost like $40 million 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. 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."

Gearbox Software is now developing Aliens: Colonial Marines instead. Since Aliens can be made into a video game more easily and is a franchise already well known by video gamers. Although Blade Runner is a very good movie, the film was released back in 1982 and gamers of today may not know what the movie is about.