Hmmm, I thought it was one of those timed deals Epic signs where they get exclusivity for 6 months and in exchange the developer of the game doesn't have to pay Epic the usual 12% of revenue from sales on Epic Store during those 6 months. But now that I'm looking into it, they also released Alan Wake Remastered only on Epic Store and it is still not on Steam years later. So I guess instead of the timed 6 month deal, they went for a lifetime deal ao that they never have to pay Epic that 12% cut. I guess Alan Wake 2 won't come to Steam then. 

Still, when you consider the fact that Remedy disadvantaged themselves by doing no Steam release and no physical release and a comparatively quite small marketing campaign for a AAA (just 20m euros), it's pretty impressive that Alan Wake 2 sales are tracking 50% above Control, a game that went on to sell 4m+ copies in the first 5 years. Alan Wake 2 will be at break even within the next 2 months most likely, and from that point on it's pure profit for them. They have 2 DLC's coming soon too.

https://twitter.com/Fallout/status/1765060572687581642?t=LJgXRL48T0bOPXYwYqvEVw&s=19

I miss last gen when Xbox regularly made limited edition consoles and controllers. These days it seems like most of the designs I see are for Sweepstakes like this one. Then when we finally do get one like that SpongeBob one yesterday, it's massively overpriced.

It's not sweepstake only, DroidKnight posted it earlier, it's available via Design Labs.

Oh nice. Glad it's not sweepstakes only then.

Scrolling around Twitter looking at the reactions to the WB news. I like how just about everybody is saying it's an idiotic move to double down on huge budget GaaS games after Suicide Squad flopped, from industry analysts to gaming journalists to just everyday gamers. Nobody seems to think this is a wise move except WB themselves. I swear, David Zaslav must like losing money. How long before shareholders wise up and call for a vote of no confidence in him?

I'm excited to see more of this game!

So here we have Pentiment, given a 10/10 on Switch whilst complaining about no achievements yet a 9/10 on Xbox by the same fucking reviewer with bs like this 

It gets a +1 coz it’s not on the poor persons console. 

Low chance but hoping for FF Pixel remasters and Trials of Mana on Xbox.

Remedy games just don't sell that well. No idea why but it is what it is.
It's definitely not healthy. Even a slight underperformer could ruin them.

Control 2 has a budget of 50 million. If it sells only 500k less than the first game, it might not break even.

Yeah, Remedy make objectively good games but they aren’t great sellers, never really has been. Remedy is a studio that suffers from ambition </> reality. They would be a good studio to purchase by a bigger company if it lets them keep making these AAA type games.