Alan Wake Not Coming to PC

[Aqualung]

The decision to not implement Alan Wake onto the PC has been strongly considered for over a year now, so this should come as little shock.

 

[jasoncyrus]

Douchebags have been abandoning the pc for ages, ever since fable 2. Hope microsoft staff all perish in a fiery ball of death for this.

 

[reg42]

Please, what a stupid excuse.

 

[Caliostro]

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuulllllllllllshiit.


There's nothing a console can do a PC can't, so their whole reason is a complete fraud.

 

[Cabisco]

Douchebags have been abandoning the pc for ages, ever since fable 2. Hope microsoft staff all perish in a fiery ball of death for this.

Well you went straight for the old testement version of revenge didn't ya

I do wonder how well this will do on xbox, i'll likely end up buying it but i don't see it having as large an impact as i think people are hoping. It honestly looks like a game most people will want, but never actually buy.

Still, you got to feel sorry for those PC owners.

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

Douchebags have been abandoning the pc for ages, ever since fable 2. Hope microsoft staff all perish in a fiery ball of death for this.

It's just one game, you know. PC gamers have tons of exclusives, just like console gamers.

That's what a lot of people don't get- each console has its own unique merits. None of them are 'the best', but all of them are equal. Neither consoles or the PC are 'dying', really.

 

[UnravThreads]

Dear Microsoft,
Thanks again for shafting us PC gamers with your usual grace.
You gave us 2 installments of the Halo universe, you can Alan Wake on us even after all these years of development, there's no sign of Fable 2 (and as such I presume 3)...
You suck

 

[Byers]

A game that's described by its devs to be a psychological thriller does not benefit from the self proclaimed intimacy of the PC? Right.

"...abandoning the PC, saying that the decision was all about making the game as good as it could be"

Considering how every first and third person shooter that gets released on both PC and consoles need to have the console version considerably dumbed down by either assisted aiming mechanics or less enemies/lower difficulty in order for the challenge levels to be roughly the same, I fail to see how any game that uses this interface has any chance at being "as good as it could be" on anything other than a PC.

I'm sure Remedy sees this as well, being a former PC developer, although they're also probably sufficiently distracted by the big pile of money that the Microsoft truck just dumped in their yard for their exclusive title.

 

[ThreeKneeNick]

I am absolutely uninterested in this game, and as such i don't care that it is not coming to the PC, but i have to say, that is one lame explanation. How about you let your customers decide what is the proper way to experience a game, and not make the decision for them? I mean, that's assuming that this is in fact the real reason it is not coming to PC, which i think is not.

 

[Amnestic]

"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," said a Microsoft spokesperson. "We ultimately realized 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 play my 360 on a monitor right next to my PC in my computer swivel chair. In other words, in regards to comfort and position it's not different to my computer.

I guess even if I buy it on the 360 it won't be 'the most compelling experience because I don't own a sofa.

 

[zidine100]

"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," said a Microsoft spokesperson. "We ultimately realized 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."

heres a solution.

GET A BIGGER MONITOR...... oh wait did they not think of this?

Or hell just use your tv as the monitor.

uhhhhh, couldnt they at least think of a more appropriate excuse?

/sorry about said rant.

 

[_Janny_]

Son of a *****... I've been looking forward to this game ever since I heard about it, and now I won't even get to play the damn thing.

 

[Alphavillain]

It's sad that they can't get their shit together and sort out the release platforms from the time the new game is announced. With the game three months from release, you'd think they'd have decided what they wanted to do with the game.

 

[Jared]

I have to admit when it comes to reasons...this one is particularly Weak-Sauce

 

[Xrysthos]

I don't own any consoles other than the PC, so it's a little sad. Not that Alan Wake is a game I was dying to play, it's just that I see a new trend here to fight videogame piracy, and I fear that soon more and more developers will leave the PC in favour of Xbox and PS3. Sooner or later PC gamers will be left with MMO's, and all the other games will be made for consoles. It's sad, but I guess there's a point to it.

 

[Radeonx]

There's already a thread about this, and it's been recently posted in.
Please try to use the search bar.

And by the way, you can still pirate games and play them on the 360, so it isn't ALL anti-piracy.

 

[AnonymouZero]

Well, I agree with him, but it'll still piss off a lot of pc fanboys supporters, although whether it will make it financially flop is another matter entirely.

this

 

[SovietSecrets]

Sigh no Dead Space 2 and now no Alan Wake, depressing. Least I can still get for 360.

 

[Sevre]

"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,"

But you can connect your PC to a TV....