Aug 21, 3:52 AM
AEW lost an insane amount of money on the Fight Forever video game
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Insider Gaming’s Mike Straw posted a video tonight that offered details on just how much of a giant money loser AEW’s “Fight Forever” video game ended up being for the company. Straw’s sources indicate that the game had a “massive loss” of at least $30 million: “Speaking with sources who were privy to the information, Fight Forever was a massive loss for AEW. That shouldn’t come as a surprise…but just how much they lost might shock people. They lost, according to those who I spoke with, at least 30 million dollars…that’s due to development deadlines being missed leading to internal delays, and ultimately external delays. As I had reported, the original time to release that game was in 2022. It didn’t come out until near Forbidden Door 2023, leading to a lot of extra time in development. And when games take that long, they cost more to make. It also did not sell all that well. They had their [expectations], but from what I’ve been told, is it got about roughly half of what their expect