Alan Wake 2 has offered 1.3 million copies since occurring sale on October 27, 2023 throughout PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X and S, and PC through the Epic Video games Retailer, making it developer Treatment Leisure’s fastest-selling sport ever.
Alan Wake 2 had offered a million copies by the tip of 2023, and shifted a further 300,000 copies as of the start of February 2024, Treatment revealed.
Trumpeting Alan Wake 2’s ongoing gross sales, Treatment mentioned the sport had offered over 50% extra copies and over 3 times extra digital copies in its first two months than Management did in its first 4 months. Management has offered over 4 million copies since occurring sale in 2019, producing internet income of round €100 million (roughly $107 million).
“A terrific sport can generate wonderful lengthy tail gross sales, and we count on this to be the case with Alan Wake 2 as properly,” Treatment mentioned in a press release.
“We are going to proceed selling and supporting Alan Wake 2 and are creating two paid DLCs that can broaden the story. We’re additionally releasing updates and finishing up different actions to help the sport and its group.”
Alan Wake 2’s gross sales had been a speaking level late final 12 months after the sport failed to interrupt into the highest 20 U.S. sport chart. However Alan Wake 2 had no bodily launch, and its writer Epic Video games doesn’t present digital gross sales knowledge to gross sales tracker Circana, so Alan Wake 2 was by no means going to point out up sturdy on the chart anyway.
Commenting now, 4 months after launch, Treatment CEO Tero Virtala mentioned the corporate was “pleased” with the beginning of Alan Wake 2’s gross sales, though it appears like the sport is unprofitable for now.
“The worth level has additionally remained at a excessive degree, and the sport has already recouped a big a part of the event and advertising and marketing bills,” Virtala continued. “We are going to proceed to develop the sport to serve current followers and entice new gamers and count on the sport to proceed promoting properly.”
Virtala confirmed that Remedy’s different tasks, Condor (a four-player co-op spin-off of Management to be co-published with 505 Video games), Management 2, and the Max Payne 1 & 2 remakes, “have all elevated improvement tempo” due to workers approaching board from Alan Wake 2. These tasks are actually anticipated to succeed in their subsequent improvement phases throughout the first half of 2024.
“We now have two established franchises: Management and Alan Wake, that are linked via the Treatment Linked Universe,” Virtala mentioned. “Rising and increasing these franchises might be a key a part of our future.”
In November, Treatment introduced it had ditched the free-to-play mannequin for a undertaking referred to as Codename Vanguard, which was set to be a free-to-play co-op sport, however is now described as “a premium sport with a robust cooperative multiplayer element”. This “reboot” resulted in a brand new codename: Kestrel. Treatment signed a publishing take care of Tencent again in December 2021 to develop Vanguard however each firms agreed to the change in course.
In our 9/10 overview, IGN mentioned: “Alan Wake 2 is an outstanding survival horror sequel that makes the cult-classic authentic appear to be little greater than a tough first draft by comparability.”
Gamers may try IGN’s Alan Wake 2 Information and important ideas and methods to get essentially the most out of taking part in the long-awaited survival horror sequel.
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