It's hard to say how much was Alan Wake hyped outside of these boards, here everyone and his grandma knew from selnor that AW is "the SH!T". If the whole hardcore gaming base was hyped similary and than the shit hit the fan with 82 metacritic and outdated scheme after 5 years in making and beeing hyped for half a year... might've hurt.

But let's see next week, beeing released with Red Dead (better game, larger audience) isn't going to help it's sales. Maybe watch the legs, I was kinda expecting huge opening week like with Heavy Rain or Splinter Cell, but legs might be where it's at. But if not, that this is really bad for Remedy. On the other hand, poor sales may force them to release this on the PC also, which wouldn't be half bad for some gamers. (I can't play horrors, too damn scary :)

this game was hyped to be up to uncharted standards by certain fans, yet it was not, not only that it has not even sold as well as uncharted did, now if we are going by fan idiology it is even more of a flop than uncharted 1 was, so expect a pc version very very soon

Alan Wake wasn't funded like Killzone 2 was by their publisher. Remedy funded the project by themselves, their an independent developer with about 50 people on staff for about 5 year's. That's not going to be cheap. Killzone 2 is a first party studio with 130 employee's with the full backing of Sony, they took a year less time to release their game and it sold well over 2 million copies (half of that within it's first month of release), they more than likely made a profit. 

I don't know if Microsoft may have funded them in the later part of development, but I'm just going by what they we're saying like 3 year's ago when they wanted to fund the project themselves so they could have 'creative freedom'. 

Off Topic: Your sig is out of date, Xbox 360: 29 and PS3: 25.

its a shame, Im still to get this game though

This game should have been multiplatform, where the fanbase is spread across.

Dude, how is this even relevant here ? its way off-topic.

These games were hyped, yes..because they are amazing games...

UC2, GoW 3, LBP all are 90+ on meta and overall fan reaction has been extremely positive, unlike games like GTA IV which received a lot of meh reactions from fans.

Why exactly is GoW 3 over-hyped ? It delivered on everything it promised imo, you haven't even played ANY GoW game and you label it over-hyped... Why ? And what position are you in to say that it is..

If my memory serves me correctly, you are the same guy who said Uncharted 2's graphics were average and the textures were bad. You also said Dante's Inferno had a better story than GoW despite not playing GoW.

You continuously say these type of things which you aren't in any position to say and get away with it....

On topic though,

Games like Alan Wake, inFamous and all which were pretty hyped and didn't get the review scores as fans expected are still awesome enough for some, but not so for others.

AW sales are mildly disappointing, yes. ioi expects about 150k from America first week...so around 250k Worldwide isn't bad and it will eventually get to a million...or even more if it has insane legs. Which is brilliant for a horror/thriller title that isn't Resident Evil.

I don't understand why everyone believes this game will have legs in others. Look at the top 50 4 games with legs Modern Warfare 2, Battlefield 2 both shooters and extremely popular franchises. The other two Halo ODST and Forza 3 were bundled games thus explaining their legs. If the game lasts beyond week 8 in the others top 50 I will be shocked.

I agree.  I'd go a little further though and state that with something like Alan Wake I'd go fully mutli-platform and cover PC, 360 and PS3.  I know Remedy are small, but Alan Wake occupies a genre that I believe needs as many purchases as possible vs being able to comfortably exist on one platform.

It might make a decent profit in the end, and hopefully MS did assist Remedy with costs as I'm sure they influenced the platform choice, but the game is very good (IMHO having got about half way through if I judge correctly) and I think in this case being exclusive with minimal advertising (so far as I've seen) really isn't the best scenario for it.

did you hear about selnor? i guess not. aw was overhyped on vgc all the people who overhyped it admited it, their were countless threads about the games graphics. their was a thread which listed the quote for "best graphics" their was a thread for a metacritic score, a thread for every new screen shot, a thread for the 1st and 2nd review given out, and other threads for its graphics.

uncharted 2 and gow3 werent overhyped, if they were new ips then they would be overhyped but they got the correct amount of hype two big franchises on the ps3 had. their were many threads about gameplay and the great graphics, but that was after the games came out not two months before!

GT is the biggest franchise on playstation, gt5 has been 5 games in the making for a game of its caliber its not overhyped, halo 3 was hyped as the 2nd coming of christ but for halo its not overhyped.

yes many people talked about those games saying that they are the best games and that the xbox can't handle those games. ive heard people say that halo is the greatest game of all time. does it mean that it was overhyped? no theirs something called fanboys.

I bought RDR and Alan Wake on the 18th, I love RDR, I have to say I am very Disappointed with Alan Wake, It gets so boaring burning the darkness off of these guys then shooting them, so repedative, and way to much story telling, I was hoping for a much better game, I mean 6 years in development, WOW, and Graphics were Average also. I really don't expect high sales for this game.