Sad day and a sign of what's to come, this will be the last console generation and the pc will remain with next to no AAA games, just Indies. I'm going to enjoy these next five years as much as I can and after that when I retire my ps4 I will end my love of Video games, I'd pretty much decided this from early last year. I'm going to have a blast, explore new worlds such as Draenor, kill endless baddies then log off one day to pastures new. I've had thirty years of fun but alas nothing good lasts for long. Bioshock was a franchise I'd enjoyed so much, pity I won't have one last adventure in that universe, well unless the next dlc is any good.

Moving onto to new things seems like a good idea for Levine. It has worked for a lot of others to work under new ideas, rules in principles. The only bad thing might be new Bioshocks from some other less story focused team. Even though this has already happened and I really like Bioshock 2.

The title of this thread is misleading.

Irrational Games is not shutting down. Ken Levine's role in Irrational Games is changing. Irrational Games will continue to exist, but a small part of the development team including Ken himself will create a new venture with Take-Two.

He isn't going Indie. He's still a part of Take-Two.

What a tired argument that has no basis in reality.  You clearly don't understand how markets work.

Seems the money is on indie games today. Ohh well, time to play starbound.

Nope all Gamestop profits are also fake. My god this site.

What can he do? He had a big team to create a fantastic game. It did not sell well enough to sustain the business and salaries. If he keeps them on payroll, the business will go bankrupt. He had to make a very tough choice. I am pretty sure this is the last thing he wanted to do, but had to to stay alive. Nothing self-centered about it at all.

I sympathise with those that lost their jobs, but I very much understand why this decision was made.

I agree that some developers shut down in an unfair manner, but I think this case is more of a "sad but true" situation.

This is a totally irrational decision

this is truely a sad day, Bioshock was a pleasant surprise when I first played it, good memories

Yeah, this announcement seems like a face saving gesture. After spending more than half a decade in development, Infinite turns up on PS+ in less than a year. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out what happened here.