Alan Wake 2 Has Yet to Turn a Profit, Continues to Sell at a High Price - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 June 2024 / 13,419 Views
Remedy Entertainment in its latest earnings report revealed Alan Wake 2 has yet to turn a profit.
Alan Wake 2 has "recouped a significant part of the development and marketing expenses" and has sold 1.3 million units worldwide as of the beginning of February. The survival horror does continue to sell with a "high average price."
"Alan Wake 2 hasn't yet started to generate royalties for us but it continues to sell on a fairly high price point," said Remedy Entertainment CEO Tero Vitala in an earnings call. "With Epic Games, we of course are at the same time supporting the sales of both Alan Wake Remastered and Alan Wake 2."
Alan Wake 2 released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Epic Games Store in October 2023.
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I'm not too surprised - it being EGS exclusive because of the publishing arrangement severely limits its potential with the PC market, and lack of retail release limits its appeal on the console market (even in the digital age).
The publishing deal is a 50/50 split between Remedy and Epic after all costs are recovered(~€55m if I remember correctly)
It doesnt use Unreal Engine though.
You're right! I thought it did.
What no Steam & no physical release does to a mfer.
Noo physical noo buy
My favorite game from last year! Go play it if you have the chance
It's on my list of games to buy at some point, last year was just too stacked and my backlog is more than I can handle as it is.
Will gladly purchase if it releases on Steam, if not, then oh well I don't care what game it is, I will never download EGS Launcher.
I really wanna buy this game but having no time and no munney really hurts my chances of getting this!
Having an absolute blast with rebirth and I'm on my way for the platinum trophy!
It was a part of sales like 30%off in PSN still wasn't enuf to drive lots of sales!
Survival horrors games are way too much of a niche and not a lot of people are going to buy it coz it's too scary and they'd rather play Fortnite and boring sports games, call of shitty.
Having no physical copy hurt the overall release too and having no options or update of releasing physical copy is another kicker!
No physical release = no purchase from me. Too bad though, the game looks great and I've loved Sam Lake's writing since Max Payne.
Poorly executed sequel, modest sales. The critics are out of touch.
1.3m units and you get down voted for stating the obvious.
1.3m in 4 months is quite a lot. It's kinda crazy how skewed people's perceptions have become from only hearing about the mega successful games.
The modest sales part is fair, but saying the game is overrated by critics and poorly executed is what is getting him downvotes. It's a very good game, hampered by only some poor business decisions like Epic Stores exclusivity and no physical release on console.
Fair comment.
Poorly executed? User score 8.7 of 10 (MetaCritic), user score 4.8 of 5 (Epic Games Store), user score 4.77 of 5 (PlayStation Store, more than 20,000 votes).
