Alan Wake No Longer Coming to PC

At this point, this was probably the wisest decision. After all the bad rep already accumulated for the title in the minds of PC gamers, it would've bombed the platform miserably. PC gamers would've simply felt entitled to a freebie of a game that was once again "dumbed down" at the expense of more open-ended gameplay and fancy quad core physics and what-not.

Face it. It's not a shooter, nor an RPG. Survival action-horror isn't really something that would sell on the PC nowadays. We're lucky we still got ME2 after the first game performed so poorly. But they probably calculated the PC constituency is still there for a RPG'ish shooter. Let's hope it sells enough to warrant a PC version for the 3rd part.

Right now, I wouldn't count on it...

BTW, besides MS being desperate for exclusive titles at this point, Remedy is also a very small studio that probably didn't have enough resources to finalize the work on both platforms. The release of this title has already been stretched far enough. And MS simply didn't feel like coughing up the cash for the PC version. And why would they? AW would've most likely suffered the faith of GoW on PC.

RAGE :( WTF... that statement they made makes no sense what so ever. What a ridiculous reasoning for not bring a game to the PC.

"Some games are more suited for the intimacy of the PC, and others are best played from the couch in front of a larger TV screen."

So what would MS classify me?

I play all my PC games on a 42" LCD HD TV through HDMI and sit in the middle of my gaming room within the 7.1 spearker arrays center all surrounding me with a game controller (Xbox 360 pad) or I use a Belkin n52te mounted to my left arm of my chair and a mouse mounted to the right of my chair. Along with a foot stool for my feet.

MS you really need to wake up and get a clue about PC gaming its not 90s anymore things have changed you stupid mother fos...

Eh, who cares? This doesn't look amazing anymore so I'm indifferent about losing the PC version. The more they show of this game, the less spectacular it looks, so let the consoles have the mediocre game you've taken so many delays to turn this game into, Remedy.

thanks microsoft!~

Whoever gave this bullshit reason has a face that's suited for the "intimacy" of my fist
\rage

I wouldn't have believed them, just expecting it to be months or a year after console release....except they've actually kept their word on GoW2 so far. Also no Fable 2 PC.

What a pile of fucking utter drivel.

Seriously pissed off at this, I hope to god Remedy break all affiliation with Microsoft after this. Completely sickened.

What's most funny about this is Microsoft originally made Alan Wake DX10 only to try and promote sales of Vista. I think they've missed to boat on that one.

Whelp, if I can't play it at least I don't have to suffer through that damned games-for-windows-live nagware crap

man that is some fucking bullshit

Hilarious stuff! Thanks MicroSoft. LOL

Not that I really cared about this game, anyway. Looks pretty "meh" from what we've seen of it so far.

How is Alan Wake more suitable to be played on a couch than the more 'intimate' setting of the PC? Isn't it a fucking psychological thriller?

You make no sense, Microsoft, and make me rage.

I remember when everyone was up in arms about how this game will require a dual core PC.

Not really a surprise. hope it's as cool as it seems. looking forward to some more in depth gameplay videos

Wow, what a shitty thing to do. At least have the balls to give a real reason aswell and not all that liquid shit smeared all over the press release.

Yeah, because there's so much differentiating Max Payne, an action story-driven game to Alan Wake, another action story-driven game. Or maybe it's the "psychological" element they keep referring to. What a lame excuse.

Can't say this is a surprise we all knew it was coming. But the reasoning is complete bullshit. Tell it like it is MS the reason this wont be coming to PC is simply:

Heavy Rain.

Some games are more suited for the intimacy of the PC, and others are best played from the couch in front of a larger TV screen. We ultimately realised that the most compelling way to experience "Alan Wake" was on the Xbox 360 platform

Well, let's hope they're right. I'm still looking forward to the game, disappointed to see it not coming to the PC, though.

I'm sorry, but this "explanation" is extremely retarded and makes me angry. I played RE5 and Dead Space on PC. I've played countless horror games on PC. Why wouldn't I want to play Alan Wake on PC with crisper graphics?

I really hope they're heavily optimizing the game to the 360's specs now. It would be even lamer if the game looked like every other vaseline-smeared multiplatform release. Not surprising though. Microsoft continues to fuck up their PC gaming division.

those reasonings are complete garbage. I hope this game does miserably. I refuse to buy the game now.

yes i am bitter but why announce the game as a pc game then all of the sudden say 'just kidding, not made for pcs' towards the end?

This is very unfortunate news