It's bad news for anyone with an Nvidia 10-series GPU.
Remedy says there's always a big challenge trying to match creative ambition with realistic budgets, and how many units you can sell.
I wish they had released a Steam version on launch. I feel that should have been part of their focus right away from announcing the game.
Would have made up alot of ground had they have released a physical version at the same time as the digital release.
I think thats where it bit them in the bum to be honest.
Weren't they whining over not breaking even a few weeks ago? No all-of-a-sudden they're talking about overspending on the budget?
Remedy Entertainment has announced that Alan Wake 2 has finally recouped its development costs and has been profitable since the end of 2024.
Should have been a physical release as well at launch. That would have changed the numbers. Hopefully they and others learn from this digital is great but so many out there like physical too.
Yup. I'd like to know how many physical copies it sold. I still haven't bought it yet, but I plan to.
I bought it right away but I’m sure it recieved less sales than it would have. I the end I’d rather wait to have dlc and game on disc, but you never know if that’s going to happen or not.
Remedy Entertainment reveals that Alan Wake 2 has sold over two million units and begun accruing royalties.
Probably would have sold a lot more had it been available physically at launch. I feel like Remedy's greed will eventually close them down.
I'm not sure it's about greed. I am one of the fans who waited until the physical version was released (I've only just played it, as a matter of fact).
Remedy's games are a hard sell in most regards. The nature of the story appeals to a smaller group of people than the average game with it's level of ambition. As a result, and to ensure they can release the game they want to make, they are required to partner with companies that impose restrictions and make decisions like seen in this case.
Remedy is not complaining that it has only just become profitable. They are used to this. I think it has been said that Alan Wake II is the game of theirs that has turned a profit quickest.
Out of all the developers out there, I think they are possibly one of the least greedy. Many other developers would choose to make decisions that increase their financial takings - Remedy seems to make decisions that allow them to release the game they want to release, without sacrificing the vision that they have.
I agree very Niche games , awesome but pretty niche. I do applaud them to sticking too their vision instead of buckling to the crappy spirit of the age.
Remedy's greed, talk about not knowing what you're talking about.
I'm guessing everyone forgot that Epic published and funded this game, and put the terms on its distribution...
I'm glad this finally broke 2 million units sold, but Silent Hill 2 hit that goal in far less time and on fewer consoles. Remedy really needs to rethink putting its games on EGS.
I have to admit that it's pretty demanding for 30 FPS/1980P experience( w Raytracing) demands a PC a lot more powefull compared to Serie X and PS5.
I swear some of these demanding games don't even look that good yet u can barely play them like wtf.
Look at uncharted 4 game still looks better than most of these new games but u can run it easy.
Wtf are some of these game devs doing? Everything has upscaling too as default like it's just embarrassing.
It's almost like its on purpose like they have a deal with gpu makers to just fill their games with crap so that people are forced to buy new gpu's. That's my tinfoil hat moment of the day but something aint right.
Demanding? Hardly, 3700x was released in 2019 and only just caught up to Intel's 8700k which was usually still better in games. 16GB of ram has been cheap for ages, at least for DDR4.. Even 32GB of good speed DDR5 is reasonable now.
You can argue the 4070 requirement for Ultra is maybe a little steep but TBF the Nvidia cards this gen are all mostly poor price/performance unless you plump for a 4090, anything below that AMD has pretty much got the market on for raster performance for the money.
"It's bad news for anyone with a 10 series GPU" uhhh okay. So you want games to advance but run well on what's now slow hardware. I mean the 3700x CPU is kind of okay but only just, there's much faster CPUs now in terms of IPC and clocks, from both Intel and AMD.
Except 720p ps5 version fsr scaled to 4k or 1440p. Consoles have became slow again.
Well shit and I just upgraded to a 1440p monitor, after 10+yrs of 1080p 😀 Finally got what I wanted. 24" 1440p 165hz gsync IPS, and 123ppi (AOC Q24G2A) had to import it from Amazon UK to the US but so far I'm happy with it. Now to retire my 3070, as the future for that card at 1440p looks bleak. 😟