Gearbox CEO says Tiny Tina's Wonderlands "shattered" expectations

gamedeveloper.com:

Gearbox and Embracer Group seem to be exceptionally pleased with the commercial performance of Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. In a call with Embracer investors held on Wednesday (and documented by the folks at Video Games Chronicle), Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford offered some insight on how the company's tabletop fantasy-flavored spinoff of the Borderlands series is performing.

Pitchford called the release of Tiny Tina's Wonderlands "a major victory" for the company, and commented that "Wonderlands shattered all of our target expectations, both critically and commercially." He said that the franchise has established a "beachhead," and that more experiences are in development. 

Neither Gearbox nor Embracer shared any specific sales numbers for Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, but Pitchford did say both companies are reaping the "financial rewards" of its success. Pitchford said that more "experiences" for the series are already in development.

That doesn't mean Gearbox is done with the Borderlands name (or franchise) for the moment. In just a couple of months, the company will release a follow-up to the critically acclaimed Tales from the Borderlands originally developed by Telltale Games. It just might mean the developers of Gearbox's looter-shooter games might be working more closely with the traumatized pyrotechnic Tiny Tina in the years ahead.

Seeing Gearbox find footing with a Dungeons & Dragons-flavored spinoff of Borderlands is fascinating when you look back at reports on sales of Borderlands 3. Wonderlands doesn't stray very far from the Borderlands formula, mostly just trading the science fiction worlds of Pandora for the in-universe fictional universe of a game called Bunkers & Badasses, which first debuted in a DLC pack