Alan Wake - dead for the PC ... SURPRISE !!!

[WalkinTarget]

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/62356



Wow, didn't see that coming *sarcasm*

What ticks me off most:

Some games are more suited for the intimacy of the PC, and others are best played from the couch in front of a larger TV screen. We ultimately realised that the most compelling way to experience "Alan Wake" was on the Xbox 360 platform, so we focused on making it an Xbox 360 exclusive

What a load of horsesh*# @!!! He sounds like a used car salesman with that spouted garbage. And I sorta hoped this game would be coo!.

[Grisu]

I'm wondering how much money MS pays for getting Xbox exclusive titles.

[Rand{CLR}]

Isn't this supposed to be something of a noir-inspired mystery story? That's perfect for the PC. That kind of game doesn't scream 60" tv and 7.1 surround sound at 11 to me.

It's sort of like saying the most compelling way to watch The Maltese Falcon is at the local dance club on the video wall to take fullest advantage of the multimedia experience.

-Rand

[Colonel_Tighlon]

Isn't this supposed to be something of a noir-inspired mystery story? That's perfect for the PC. That kind of game doesn't scream 60" tv and 7.1 surround sound at 11 to me.

It's sort of like saying the most compelling way to watch The Maltese Falcon is at the local dance club on the video wall to take fullest advantage of the multimedia experience.

-Rand

If you count watching movies this way, I've seen Barbarella over 100 times.

[Skud]

We ultimately realised that the most compelling way to experience "Alan Wake" was on the Xbox 360 platform, so we focused on making it an Xbox 360 exclusive

I'm sure it's all about the "compelling experience" and has nothing to do with profit margin.

[K PhaNTOM]

Hey like it or not. More copies get pirated than sold on the PC. We can expect a lot more of these situation. Business is business.

[juneau]

Hey like it or not. More copies get pirated than sold on the PC. We can expect a lot more of these situation. Business is business.

No they don't lol. What i can say though is that the Xbox360 version will be pirated more than the PC version would have been.

[K PhaNTOM]

Rethink that statement Juneau, it's much easier to pirate on PC than it is to mod, burn, and play on xbox which will get you banned eventually. No risk on PC whatsoever.

[Gimmie2]

For once i agree w/ phan. Juneau it is much easier to pirate on PC than on any console.

[DougBob]

I don't think Juneau was talking about ease of copy, but rather responding to the statement about "More copies get pirated than sold on the PC. " I also disagree with this statement. I do not believe more copies are pirated than sold on the PC platform.

[Colonel_Tighlon]

I don't think Juneau was talking about ease of copy, but rather responding to the statement about "More copies get pirated than sold on the PC. " I also disagree with this statement. I do not believe more copies are pirated than sold on the PC platform.

There's no way to get an accurate figure, but I think pirate copies of certain games definitely outnumber the sales.

[K PhaNTOM]

I don't think Juneau was talking about ease of copy, but rather responding to the statement about "More copies get pirated than sold on the PC. " I also disagree with this statement. I do not believe more copies are pirated than sold on the PC platform.

Maybe (A very weak maybe) if we're talking about the U.S. but when you get to Europe (Russia, England, and Germany)- they sell 1 copy, which will get pirated... lol

(And as IW said, 60% of all dedis were cracked on COD4)

[juneau]

Dougbob is following me well. I wasn't talking about the ease of said copy. Just the numbers. The console market is huge, and so is the piracy market. Imagine how many illegal xbox, ps3 and wii games are sold in China alone. Probably more than the total worldwide download numbers of a top PC title.

[K PhaNTOM]

OK then you bring up a huge point here. What's the point of porting the game to sell a few thousand copies? It will sell millions on consoles. I guess it will become clearer if someone counted the cost of porting the game, or better yet, recoding for the PC.

*starts thinking about getting a console*

[Colonel_Tighlon]

No way console pirates outnumber PC pirates in any way.

Any game, movie, album, TV show, etc. I can pirate it w/o any problem right now. That goes for the rest of the world.