A lot of people believed that Alan Wake 2 was a commercial flop. That assumption was based on the fact that Remedy hadn’t revealed the game’s sales. Well, it appears that this is far from the truth. In fact, Alan Wake 2 is Remedy’s fastest selling game to date.
As Remedy revealed a couple of hours ago, the game has sold over 1.3 million units worldwide. Alan Wake 2 sold over 50% more copies and over three times more digital copies in its first two months than Control did in its first four months. So yeah, you can rest assured that Remedy is not in a financial crisis after developing this horror game.
This also shows why you shouldn’t pay a lot of attention to sales speculations. I’ve seen this happening in A LOT of games. Hell, some media are even reporting the drop of concurrent players on Steam, suggesting that some games are suddenly in trouble. These “negative news stories” can spread like wildfire, which is why some media are publishing these articles. So, you should be grateful we’re focusing on things like Path Tracing, Mods and Unreal Engine 5. At least we’re not lying in your face.
Anyway, Remedy has also revealed that CONTROL has sold over 4 million units in total. The team also expects Alan Wake 2 to have long tail sales. Oh, and in case you’re wondering, no. There is still no word on when, and if, Alan Wake 2 will come out on Steam.
Alan Wake 2 was released in October 2023 and it’s one of the few triple-A games that had Path Tracing effects on PC. Remedy has also addressed most of the issues we’ve reported. Not only that, but it brought some additional performance improvements. As such, the game is in an even better state than its launch version.
Finally, Remedy stated that it will continue supporting Alan Wake 2. The team is currently working on two paid DLCs that will expand its story. Players can also expect more updates and patches down the line.
Stay tuned for more!
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I don’t doubt it sold a lot, people really wanted another AW a long time ago so there was the audience for it. However coming up with bs babel for what’s just press release “journalism” is pretty low, to be expected though. If I was a megacorp, now partners w the diz, I’d just make up good numbers as a marketing strategy tbh people are so conditioned to believing anything, why not? Epic isn’t exactly a loved platform so they didn’t do themselves any favors and prob a lot is lower priced deals through third party sellers.
This is possibly one of the most shilled games of all time by pozjournos, I don’t think even TLoU2 was shilled as hard as this, so it had to sell something by brute force alone.
TLoU2 was shilled way more, stop the copes.
I would not say more, since even some normies rejected it.
The main difference seems to be that TLoU2 is not as boring as the race swapped Saga game.
TLoU2 is one of Sony best selling games, i tought they where dumb for not releasing Demons Souls or Bloodborne for PC, but turns out Sony normies buy this crap way more. 10 million copies by 2022, this sucks and Nugamers suck even more. The only saving grace is that the first part sold double the amount of copies, but that game sucks as well and 10 million copies is still one of the biggest success for Sony.
agree it’s amazing reading all those 10s and best game ever goty nonsense, I think there’s a huge budget just for chatgpt-ai accounts for reviews and horejourno reviews always been paid for. This was bait and switch really, Ok make a new ip called the adventures of some rando negress with guest AW but this has almost nothing in common w the gameplay etc of AW1. It’s just cringey all over and poorly designed. Those epic dollars upfront just result in these trash games who don’t care too much about sales, otherwise you’re going to release on steam, gog-cpdr does and all the rest w their own stores, rs, jubisots etc
Alan wake 2 was boring asf, i loved the first alan wake and this one hardly has any combat in it. Lack of combat would not be a big deal but the main issue with this game i have is that majority of the game is played with Saga. This game should have been called Saga wake 2 instead of Alan wake 2. Saga was such a boring protagnist.
Saga sucked, but the overall game was excellent otherwise
I cannnot remember any other games being shilled and stroturfed as hard as this one and starfield.
the reason it sold is because a lot of people were waiting for this sequel for a very long time, however it is unfortunate that Remedy is barely recognizable nowadays, the amount of trash they’ve inserted in this game is bizarre, from making Alan a side character in his own story to blackwashing Anderson. For a well-known company I think 1.3 million is quite low for all the promotional work they’ve done, since it was literally everywhere. I wish that they would’ve done this sequel 7/8 years ago though, before this whole forced-diversity started to live, the game’s story would’ve definitely been better than what we’ve gotten.
if this is “sold” i dread to think how hard the original game flopped.
vgchartz says sales for the original are listed at 3.2M as of 2015, but that was also made on a much smaller budget and IIRC they got funding from MS as well, it got a “remaster” a little while back so I’m guessing the sales of the original are probably easy double or triple AW2 so far
Great game, ignore the moaners on here.
where is the “game” part and why is it so great?
Nah for real this really look like a walking simulator.
Worse than that, most of the dialogues in the game are pointless and the ending sucks, so its as tory game with trash filler story.
Budget was reported as 70M (50+20 for marketing) plus this game was financed by Epic Games so i guess Remedy are happy even if 1.3m is not a crazy amount for today aaa
and microsoft not just epic.
Thats cool, It was fun experience. Annoyed by the cliffhanger ending.
a cliffhanger ending in a remedy game? No way!!!
I had only played Control and Quantum Break before I got into Alan Wake a few months before 2 came out. I felt those games ended pretty succinctly.
i dont know about quantum break but by the end of control most of the questions were not answered.
AW2 I pirated because f**k Epic. Playing Enshrouded atm and wonder if it’s not sold more?
Epic is giving away rally Dakar this week and next week it will be Fallout classic games, pretty cool imo.
rathe drink spoiled food than owning anything from epic spyfraud
Surely it isn’t so bad…
I couldn’t care less for path tracing and all that RT bs hype when your game is made in collaboration with Sweetbaby inc.
Other than changing the race of the playable female character, was there more influence by this company? I remember seeing a screenshot about racism dialogue, but not much else (not making excuses, just curious).
There is a couple out of nowhere “I’M A LESBIAN!!!!” lines in the game from the female FBI agent at the end, but that’s really it. While I do think the game’s random race swapping and Saga being such a huge part of the game is weird, it wasn’t all that bad.
But that’s the slippery slope right? The game just shoves a few little things in, and we all except it because the rest of the game is amazing. Then they do a little more with the next anticipated game and before you know it, it’s chock full of propaganda and we fell complacent with the “oh it’s not that much”. It really sucks. The devs need to stand up and say “NO!” more often than just taking the sacks full of money and allowing their games to be propaganda.
Agreed almost entirely, just not the end, because it is we the players that need to say NO! to these propaganda. Devs are too spineless, i mean it would be nice if they rejected these pratices, but you get the point.
I agree, we the players and purchasers do need to stand up and say no too. However, because voting with your wallet doesn’t do anything but make the tiniest minuscule dent in the overall playerbase I just don’t see another way.
If we all were able to stand up in a more public forum where comments weren’t immediately removed by mods then that would be a great start. I commented on a couple major sites at the time talking about why there was such a line in a game when it made no sense, and I got immediately banned and my comment removed.I didn’t even say anything other than questioning why some random FBI agent was offering very personal information about their sexuality in the middle of a unbelievable crisis of supernatural phenomenon. Talking about how their lesbian lover was worried or left them or whatever made zero sense to the scene that was playing out and stood out heads and shoulders as the propaganda that it was.
We have no voice in major public places which is where we need to be speaking out against this crap. But since those comments are immediately banned for even questioning “why is this here? this doesn’t make sense” and then the user banned so they can’t even talk on the platform anymore is just insane.
its always the same approach, bit by bit piece by piece they corrupt and destroy
I put playing it on hold due to the race swap thing, so dumb. I hope they don’t do anything like that in Control 2
Control was woke out of the gate, with the whole girlboss protagonist with manly face, the whole cast was insufferable, and there is even the token badass ugly black sheboon.
Girlboss isn’t always = woke. IMO.
Woke is an abstract concept so nothing will be black or white, even raceswap. It mostly is however, and Remedy has been putting gay easter eggs ever since Quantum Break.
That is extremely low for a long anticipated, 90+ critically reviewed game with cutting edge graphics that was an awards season darling and being released on 3 major platforms and being constantly in the news cycle with constant patches. Probably should not have announced these sales figures and instead released more patch or dlc news.
I can understand the PC sales being low because its not on Steam but what’s their excuse for the console sales being so low.
I think its just the climate we’re in. Cinematic Single player story-focused games just seems like not the move when every other game is a live service that is trained to get people addicted.
yeaRRRR, let my comrrades set to the sea!
It’s digital only on consoles too, which probably didn’t help with sales seeing as how a big appeal of those machines is the ability to play physical copies of games.
You are wrong, despite what u see most ponies indicating on social media that they love physical, the digital sales have surpassed physical even on playstation since PS4 era.
Remedy did a mistake in the annoucment. They wanted to say 0.3(300.0000) and said 1.3(1.300.000). No one except some crazy people and little kids that are addicted Fortnite use epic store. I will never use it!
The video game wasn’t on Steam, so you can’t expect much better than this tbh
Good news for EGS.
I enjoyed it for sure. I just didn’t buy it. I would have if it was on Steam but it’s not so no thank you.
1.3 mil is not that much for a game that was heavily marketed by journos and paid youtubers.
its the same as control ” its a sucess” later we got a leak of info saying they receiver more than 10M, for exclusivity and to cover the sale disaster yes, yes remedy …
You should attract clients big and small, if someone is willing to pay 10 million for you to develop a game, it is a success in it’s own right.
Remedy did a mistake in the annoucment. They wanted to say 0.3(300.0000)
and said 1.3(1.300.000). No one except some crazy people and little
kids that are addicted Fortnite use epic store. I will never use it!!!!
1.3 million probably doesnt cover the development cost. i bet this is counting game pass.
Epic fund part of it, glad they did and make the game able to finished and released. technically its the next advancement of graphic tech after Cyberpunk
Papadopolous your journalism is terrible. Your job is to give people the objective facts, nobody cares about your garbage opinion on everything.
What makes you think anyone cares about your opinion of John’s opinion?
GET WOKE, SELL LOTS!
Thank u Remedy.
you think thats lots? HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA.
Remedy did a mistake in the annoucment. They wanted to say 0.3(300.0000)
and said 1.3(1.300.000). No one except some crazy people and little
kids that are addicted Fortnite use epic store. I will never use it!death to epic store!!!
30 years ago action media was full of movies with black male playing the role of protagonist, side characters or co-protagonist. Nowadays it is full of black women playing those roles, but with less charisma and often zero s3x appeal.
And same b*tchy girlboss attitude like every other girlboss characters nowadays.
Tekken 8 which is from the niche fighting game genre sold more in less time lmao !
Niche? what?
It’s all platforms combined. And that says a lot about individual platform sales
I’m glad Alan Wake 2 sold well by Remdey’s standards so Control 2 can get all the money it needs to get made. Alongside Max Payne 1 & 2 remasters of course.
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The biggest “hit” by Epic Games, which didn’t help much because Epic is still at a significant loss.
Not everyone likes the Epic platform, these are the facts, people prefer convenience and having everything at hand.
Another thing, Remedy promised a lower price because they switched to a digital model, it was like that for some time, then they magically and silently raised the price. (in some regions even very)
Of course, the price increase wasn’t because they added any bonuses or the quality of the game was better.
Also, the game is not great, there is not enough Alan in Alan Wake 2, everything focuses on the female “super detective” who can do everything at any time and place.
The pace, gameplay and script are at a lower level than the first game, especially there the pace is better balanced and the game is not stretched to the limit.
The game may look nice, but it doesn’t stand out in any way beyond what we’ve seen so far.
Looks boring, not alive.
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Great, they’re gonna make more of this garbage now.