I didn't expect sales to be this low. That said it didn't receive much marketing, but for a title in development for 5. Its one of the best games I have played in its genre, I hope it makes a profit.

Who knows... But as I gamer I am really not concerned with this. Game is freekin awesome which is all that matters.

If the sales are accurate it does deserve more.

Who is surprised here ?

This game was overhyped on the whole internet because it was supposed to be the "BEST GAME EVA", the BEST GFX EVA, the best survival horror game that is so good that you DO NOT HAVE the right to call it a survival horror game (thx you Remedy for this last point)

also, the game has no online multiplayer which seems to be more and more important for gamers today ...

It is released close to RDR which is getting high praising

AND the pre-orders where showing us since numerous weeks that game will not have amazing sales.

Conclusion : plz port the game to PC and I will buy it. Thx you Remedy.

what do you mean ? AW was overhyped. End.

Ask to anyone at VGChartz ...

and the 2 sentences that you are underlying are not linked together IMO ...

but, yes, bring the game to PC, this is were I want to play it.

And people wanted to hang me for calling it.... it's just how it is, especially THIS YEAR on X360

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=108525&page=1&str=1650804583#

i have to disagree.

the game is awesome cant wait to play it soon, but the more commercial success means they can make more of the same.

i wanted to see 200k in EU and 300k+ in NA, going onto sell 1.5million+ WW

im beginging to think people only buy hyped games which is a shame.

I personally haven't seen any ads for the game here in the UK except the ole' internet hype. Could be MS haven't bothered to advertise it as much as they could; maybe they've shifted focus onto Natal. Shame really, I honestly didn't even know it'd been released in Europe. Wish I had more money as I'd get this in a heartbeat.

To be fair, it was was what only two days of sales? Hopefully the US chart will be more promising, though it just came out on Tuesday so we won't know right away.

To answer the OP: I have no idea how much Alan Wake costs, but it looks like they saved quite a bit on advertisting. So I guess that depends on how much MS and Remedy are getting out of this and how much they spent on the game. 5+ years of development and no PC version means it was probably pretty expensive to make and I'm gonna *assume* 2+ million copies to make a decent profit. MS probably pulled for it to be a system seller in the long run.

Well I hope AW does sell well.... or at least as well as Heavy Rain did. Otherwise, PS3 fanboys are going to have a field day exclaiming how exclusives don't sell on the 360.