Irrational Games are "winding down"; all but 15 staff laid off [edit: Gamasutra - Bioshock Infinite didn't sell enough]

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Soleron on 18 February 2014

Mnementh said:

Soleron said:
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Infinite sold between 3 and 4 million copies. How can this be unprofitable? Did they get SquareEnix execs to make the budget-planning?

What other conclusion is there? They only broke even on Tomb Raider just recently at 4-5m copies.

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