According to a Remedy employee’s post on the Alan Wake community forums, the PC version of Alan Wake has recouped its development cost within 48 hours of going on sale. As of this writing, Alan Wake for PC is sitting at #2 on the “Top Sellers” list on Steam.
The PC version of the Xbox exclusive title supports superior graphics (and all the lovely tweaking that comes with that territory) and mouse/keyboard controls.
The game is on sale on Steam through March 1st for $29.99. This get’s you the collector’s edition that comes with an illustrated PDF version of the book that came with the Xbox360 collectors edition, various behind the scenes videos, the soundtrack, and (coolest of all) “The Signal” and “The Writer” DLC…for free.
Fans of the game will remember that it was actually shown at various industry trade shows running on PC well before its release…but then things got quiet on the PC front and, somewhere along the line, it became 360 exclusive. Fans with excellent memory will remember that the official reasoning behind the console-only release was “people will enjoy it more sitting on a couch and not leaning forward in a computer chair.” Yeah, that happened.
Kudos to Remedy for getting a second chance at a game that deserved more than being known as “the other game that came out on the day Red Dead Redemption did.”
