After the reveal of prototype footage for Alan Wake 2 yesterday Remedy's senior writer Mikko Rautalahti fired up his Twitter to explain how Alan Wake wasn't cancelled and how things went into another direction.
Remedy has released its financial statement for the first quarter of 2024, and despite strong sales, Alan Wake 2 has yet to recoup its development costs.
Lol. I imagine there's still alot of people that buy physicals. Or atleast see what kind of new games are out by what they see in real stores. This is on them. Idda paid 70 day one physical. Now I won't pay more then 15 for it
Remedy has made a couple of changes to its core management team with the goal to grow Alan Wake and Control into larger franchises.
Changes like not being anti consumer? putting out Alan Wake Remastered on disc but not the sequel?
With path-traced diffuse lighting and reflections even the mighty RTX 4090 can't hit 60 FPS at 4K without frame generation.
Now that's cleared up , let us hope that you Folks at Remedy and MS find the direction to bring a port of Alan Wake to Xbox one and its Sequel to Xbox one Exclusively .
Remedy just simply doesn't cancel projects if something else turns up they'll focus all on that, and they'll most likely come back to Alan Wake soon after Quantum Break.
That video was a prototype mock up sketched ideas of what they wanted in Alan Wake 2. But they never made a game out of it. Here's hoping they green light it after QB and make the game exclusively on Xbox One.
First one was solid, one of the more fun and interesting of its genre. Hopefully they don't make it exclusive though, it'd be great if more people could enjoy it.
I don't think they would of gotten money from Microsoft if they decided to make Alan Wake 2. I kind of think Microsoft turned around and told them to try and make a new IP which would hopefully gain more of an audience (more sales) when it releases. I remember seeing that MS were apparently disappointed with Alan Wakes sales...despite being pretty decent for a new IP.
Glad to see that is cleared up. I remember seeing a few on here constantly saying that MS "made" Remedy cancel the game or something similar.