The 2013 action game Aliens: Colonial Marines did as you might know not live up to anyone's expectations. It had to ship 3 million copies just in order to cover the development costs, but "only" 1.3 million players were interested enough to spend money on it. The Gearbox head Randy Pitchford recently revealed in an argument on Twitter that he (or Gearbox) spent over $10 million on the development on top of publisher Sega's investment. We assume that that money is all gone now, and the only reasonable conclusion to draw from this is that Aliens: Colonial Marines hurt everyone involved in more ways than one.
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Pitchford lost $10 million on Aliens: Colonial Marines
Gearbox lost a ton of money on commercial failure.
Tor Erik Dahl
15 July 2015
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Game facts
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Genre
Action
Developer
Gearbox Software, TimeGate Studios
Publisher
Sega
Release date
11 February 2013
Platforms
PC
PS3
Xbox 360
Wii U
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Editions
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1998
Publishing since
Independently owned for the whole of it.
100%
Hands-on
Written from time with the game, never press material.
1–10
Network Score
Every edition’s score, averaged and shown.