Alan Wake's Low European Debut (88K) - Will it make a profit?

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starcraft said:

Dallinor said:
Remedy need the game to make a profit, their studio's future is resting on it.

I'm surprised by it's low debut, I thought it would at least sell 150k+ in others first week. Both SC and AW have been commercially and critically a bit of a letdown in my mind, and I think Mod Nation Racers may be next.

Not that every game needs to get perfect scores, or that metacritic is the ultimate yardstick of quality, but scores in the low 80's for exclusives a long time in the works from studios with a strong pedigree is dissapointing.

It would be an awful shame for Remedy to get into financial problems, so hopefully the game will have legs.

Splinter Cell Conviction is on track to be the highest selling Splinter Cell on an Xbox product.

At the same time, I can see you're point critically, a lot of people (in the case of Alan Wake, myself included) expected them to be AAA.

I wouldn't worry about the game losing money.  It was in production for a long time yes, but with an EXTREMELY small development team.  This isn't Killzone 2.

 

No its not. With the legs its heaving I doubt that it will manage to break the 3 million of the first game whitout heavy bundling

Oh, and your KZ2 remark. I dunno, they even made a small real time movie series for AW. It was in development longer then KZ2, and it will sell considerably less...

 

OT: the EU debute is lackluster I agree, tough with a possible 150k+ opening in NA, it could easily reach IMO 1.5 million LT. Its not a massive system pusher as some expected it to be, but IMO they could at least break even or have another shot at a sequel/create a franchise out of it