CONFIRMED: Airtight games, developer of Murdered: Soul Suspect, collapses

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QuintonMcLeod said:

zarx said:

QuintonMcLeod said:

Airtight made one AAA/AA game and it cost them a lot; enough to bankrupt them. Wouldn't you agree?

No they made 2 mid tier games, 4 small budget games. As fas as I can tell they haven't made a single game that turned a profit (maybe Quantum Conundrum as that was their best recieved game and was low a budget downloadable title) and they went banckrupt because they couldn't convince publishers to keep giving a studio with a terrible track record money to make games big or small.

But their latest game was the tipping point.

Fact to the matter is, their games weren't profitable. Many of Platinum Games' titles don't sell millions upon millions, but they still profit. Why is that?

Metal Gear Rising sold 1.5M, Bayonetta sold 2M. Murdered is at 200K and probably won't have any kind of legs with the bad Meta. You don't have to sell dozens of millions, but Platinum got way better sales than Airtight.