Alan Wake confirmed for PC

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selnor said:

pezus said:

selnor said:

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I'll ask in another way.

How many console sales do you tink 360 will lose with Alan Wake releasing on PC?

~100-500, give or take. But that wasn't my problem with your original post. Anyway, let's just finish this. The quotes are getting way too long and I need to go!

But  that is the point.

My original statement  was "this doesnt hurt M$ at all"

100 - 500 360 sales is non existant. 

This going to PC is a great move for M$. Not a bad 1. 

Xbox will continue to be the place to play M$ exclusives. If they reease them on PC to then is smart. 

It makes more money, and as you said yourself doesnt detract from 360 sales.

Why do you keep going on about MS? This has nothing to do with MS.  Remedy are self publishing and bringing AW to Stean, not Games for Windows.  Their recent comments make it pretty clear they regret allowing MS publishing on 360 to prevent same day release of the game on PC.  MS was of course heavily involved on 360 but their involvement in PC seems zero and MS themselves aren't going to make any money from this directly so far as I can tell.

Myself I think MS saw a chance for a short term tactical move that would allow them to push AW as a 360 exclusive at the same time Heavy Rain was getting a lot of attention as a Sony exclusive, so they killed the PC release and tied Remedy to a timed exclusive contract (to be fair Remedy should perhaps have bailed out on this and simply found another publisher who would support 360/PC same day release) but the final push for the game itself seemed fairly minimal I thought - I really feel MS were more interested in the perception they were matching Sony for exclusives rather than really trying to push AW specifically.  As a result Remedy seem to be handling the PC release themselves without any major input/influence from MS.