I would still say it is almost probably worth a rent eventually. It was probably a bit of competition and but probably mostly being one of those games you eventually pick up when its 15-20 dollars at the store.
Remedy Blames Stiff Competition for Poor Alan Wake Sales
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Pretty much this. I've had enough of exclusives myself. Sure it might increase production times to get games to each platform at sufficient quality. But I can wait.coldalarm said:
What was the reason why it wasn't released on PC again? You (supposedly) couldn't get the full experience or something?
I blame the fact its on one console, a game like this needs to be on more than one format since horror isn't as popular as say shooters which can sell well on one thing, if it was on PC i'm sure it would have doubled its sales.
It's Microsoft. They don't think, they just do.Onyx Oblivion said:
But ah, the sales are quite disappointing. I have no appeal to get an Xbox for this game and only this game but I'm Finnish so I would've liked to see this game succeed, if only to persuade Microsoft to allow Remedy to release it for the PC as well.
I'd blame your publisher, and their confict of interests in trying to [a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/101550-Microsoft-Pledges-to-Save-PC-Gaming-Again"]"save PC gaming"[/a]. I seriously would have bought that game, but I won't because it's now an exclusive.
Considering word of mouth seems to be Hakkinen's new primary sales strategy, and he's using the word 'still' when taking about the game having life in it, I can't help but think it's a massive misfire of a game with a desperate man at the helm, in denial.
I was going to pick it up when it got cheap.
The game just sounded so much more interesting a year before it was released, before it turned into a linear action game. The talk about episodes pretty much killed my interest in picking up the game on launch day.
The game just sounded so much more interesting a year before it was released, before it turned into a linear action game. The talk about episodes pretty much killed my interest in picking up the game on launch day.
Yea, nice excuse. maybe you shouldn't have released it next to 2 monster titles. or maybe you shouldn't have made a game that is a better rent than buy. (I say this because after one, maybe two playthroughs, you're done. You know the whole story already, so that can't really carry the game on its back anymore, and nobody bought that game for its innovative combat system)
