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Alan Wake franchise sold more than 4.5m units on PC and Xbox 360
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CrazedArabMan
Member
Excellent! Bring on QB and then AW2!!!
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Is this fake or real?
Steverulez
Member
LukasTaves
Member
This.
dr_rus
Member
Most likely. It is funny if you consider that Remedy had to publish the game themselves on PC and are working on an XBO exclusive QB now.
Steverulez
Member
It was bundled in 2010 in the holiday Bundle with Forza 3, so a bit part of it might have come from that.
Its been on sale everywhere plenty of times. Not that I'm trying to downplay the PC version, it seems to have had great success there too, from the very short amount I played on it, it looked great.
I assume they're counting the Xbox 360 bundles in this anyway.
Dick Justice
Banned
If they make a sequel, I want less shitty combat and more NPC interaction and small-town sandbox exploration. Just make it more like Deadly Premonition, basically.
Give War A Chance
Member
I'd be shocked if we don't see more Alan Wake. The fact that they're monitoring the internet for "Alan Wake" mentionings... it seems weird, unless...
speculawyer
Member
Nice but it is a pretty meaningless statistic. The game has been sold in multiple Steam sales for next to nothing and they even had an Alan Wake Humble Bundle which allowed you to buy all the games for next to nothing.
I'd like another hour be if they build on original with less shooting and more investigation/horror and ditch direction they took with Anerican Nightmares.
It's a decent total but if they're saying franchise then this is both AWE plus AN and most sales were almost certainly reduced price and likely include a lot of PC sales at low price via Steam.
Still, lower revenue or not at least they've got a decent base of folks who tried it to build on if they choose.
It's a decent total but if they're saying franchise then this is both AWE plus AN and most sales were almost certainly reduced price and likely include a lot of PC sales at low price via Steam.
Still, lower revenue or not at least they've got a decent base of folks who tried it to build on if they choose.
Twin Tails
Member
Remaster with QB plse
Jawbreaker
Member
Not too surprising since they've practically given the game away for free on PC in the past. I think it's skewed toward PC sales, but I could be wrong about that. It also looks like they're counting American Nightmare.
ReplacementPelican
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It's good but the game has been so cheap on Steam Sales for a while now and it was HumbleBundled too. The number seems great but clearly the revenue was insignificant enough for MS to not want another one.
Until now, perhaps. I do wonder if a remaster will test the waters for a sequel.
Until now, perhaps. I do wonder if a remaster will test the waters for a sequel.
Steverulez
Member
Its had 2 games, and includes sales of both.
People really don't remember American Nightmare. It was great, you should all pick it up if you haven't already.
It shows consumer interests and there are generally positive feelings around the game. Not every game with bargain big prices manages to sell so much.
A test? This is not Capcom and Nintendo.
dancrane212
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thehillissilent
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Quantum Break is actually an episode of Night Springs watched by Alan Wake. The twist you guys didn't see coming. So you guys were actually playing Alan Wake 2 all along and didn't even know it.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
It's been on sale for a dollar on steam iirc
Ricky Ricardo
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Alan Wake 2 for 2017 confirmed!
Simply Sami
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Can't believe it came out 5 years ago. Remember those delays before it came out.
They gave it away for 1 cent on Humble Weekly Sale.
Man-is-Obsolete
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It was part of a humble bundle once. I know that is where my copy came from.
Edit: if they are happy with the ltd sales then awesome, but I do hope games don't get put on to humble bundles or plus services just to tout ltd numbers later.
Edit: if they are happy with the ltd sales then awesome, but I do hope games don't get put on to humble bundles or plus services just to tout ltd numbers later.
SlipperyMoose
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I'm very happy. I bought it on launch for the 360. After besting it I recommended it to ad many people as I could and they enjoyed it as well. It is great to see this was a slow burner and over time was really successful!
I'm assuming because that isn't the sales for Alan Wake but Alan Wake and Alan Wake American Nightmare combined as two separate titles. Might also include counting of DLC although I suspect not as that would be stretching it.
Alan Wake is pretty strange. The combat isn't particularly enthralling and the gameplay is extremely redundant, but I had an amazing time with it. Good atmosphere, interesting story, and a great sense of humor with very good writing and VA. It's in that Deadly Premonition, Twin Peaks, X-Files kind of area. Spooky prime time tv fun.
It was 3 mil before humble bundle.
Quadraphonic
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And 4.5 million after, which means 1/3 of the sales are barely anything but a frivolity.
HateGames
pokeystaples
Banned
favorite game i played when i had a 360. super meat boy was a close second.
I would definitely borrow a One to play part 2 if it ever comes.
i only played like 3 games on it and the other was geow
Steverulez
Member
Its also been on sale on Xbox 360, would they rather have 4.5m sales or 3m sales?
Who cares how they got them as long as they did, thats 4.5m people with exposure to the series. If anymore Alan Wake is to come Microsoft will likely fund it, they will more likely to do so at 4.5m
The lengths some people are going to in order to downplay the number, jesus.
BabyFaceKillah
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I never got around to picking up a 360, but from the little I knew about Alan Wake, I always thought it looked intriguing. I grabbed the complete franchise sometime later for something like $2 as a Humble Bundle. However, it wouldn't even run on my integrated intel graphics card, so I was forced to put it on the back burner. I finally got around to playing it last March after I got a new PC.
To say I was impressed would be an understatement. I loved every single thing about it! I pretty much went in blind, and left thinking it was one of the greatest IPs from last gen.
Having never played the original Max Payne games, it was my introduction to Remedy. I'm now an avid follower. With a One now, I'm down for a sequel day one, and anticipate Quantum Break too.
They made me a fan of Poets of the Fall too.
To say I was impressed would be an understatement. I loved every single thing about it! I pretty much went in blind, and left thinking it was one of the greatest IPs from last gen.
Having never played the original Max Payne games, it was my introduction to Remedy. I'm now an avid follower. With a One now, I'm down for a sequel day one, and anticipate Quantum Break too.
They made me a fan of Poets of the Fall too.
Steverulez
Member
Alan Wake 2 PS4 pretty please
Microsoft are the publisher and still funding Remedy for Quantum Break, I wouldn't hold your breath.