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Alan Wake Sails Past Two Million Units Sold

Posted on Tuesday, March 13 @ 13:47:58 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

When Alan Wake was announced back in 2005, and for several years afterward, it was marketed as a game for PCs and consoles. However, when it finally released five years later the PC version was nowhere to be seen. That isn't the first time that a multi-platform game's PC version has been neglected, but hopefully it's the last now that it's proven itself worthy.

Remedy Entertainment's Oskari Hakkinen has confirmed that Alan Wake has now passed the milestone of two million copies sold. What makes this especially interesting is that the Xbox 360 version only had a total of around 1.2 million sales toward the end of last year. Now, unless several hundred thousand Xbox gamers decided out of nowhere to jump out of their bean bags and go buy a two year old game, the PC version has nearly doubled the sales of the franchise in just one month. For a company that was extremely hesitant to even release a PC version due to a fear of piracy, this comes as nothing less than a monstrous surprise.

Since the PC version of Alan Wake just released four weeks ago, and its pricing is stil in the mid to upper-tier, it's safe to say that the game will have long legs moving forward. More importantly, this could prompt Remedy Entertainment to consider releasing Alan Wake's American Nightmare, a game that is currently Xbox Live exclusive, on PCs. Moreover, PC gaming is far from dead and other development studios should take note.
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  • Ashalar
    Ashalar
    Joined: Jan 2008
    Posted: Mar 13th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
    Fellow GR members: If you haven't got this game already, I recommend you buy it. It is not the scariest game out there, but it is gorgeous. I loved it on the Xbox, and the PC version looks even better. The DLC is a bit lackluster, but still a solid experience.
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  • WILLS_COOL_MODE
    WILLS_COOL_MODE
    Joined: Oct 2010
    Posted: Mar 13th, 2012 at 2:22 pm
    This, not only does it look good for a console-to-PC port, it's actually just a really good looking standalone game. Definitely recommended over the 360 version.
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  • MasterRabbi
    MasterRabbi
    Joined: May 2007
    Posted: Mar 14th, 2012 at 5:28 am
    Started this game when an Xbox was available to me, definitely will pick it up on PC. It would be now if I didn't have such a staggering backlog of games.
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