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Alan Wake an Xbox exclusive, studio too 'small' for PC

Remedy wakes up to recent news about Alan Wake.

Alan Wake, one of the PC gaming community's most anticipated games since its announcement at E3 in 2005, has been recently announced to only support the Xbox 360 platform.

The game is being developed by Remedy Entertainment, who have explained their move to the console-only platform in an interview with VG247:

...frankly, we're a small studio. We're 50 people, and being a small studio, it makes a lot more sense for us to focus on one platform. Currently we're fully focused on the Xbox version, and [as for] what the future holds, we haven't got anything to announce, and we haven't thought that far right now.

While the Xbox 360 version is scheduled to release in late May this year, it seems that the future of the PC version is unsure, and certainly isn't guaranteed.

This is welcome news for those frustrated PC fans who received an unwholesome explanation last week from Remedy, where a Microsoft spokesman described the PC platform as "too intimate".

Head to bit-tech to read some more about the original announcement.

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9 Comments

Count Feb 23, 2010 12:20 PM	The _PC_ platform is too intimate... The PC platform... Pc.... walks away muttering in disbelief
DishD Feb 23, 2010 1:01 PM	WoW why have Pc users become the second class of the 21st century???(cod Mw2 is just a prime example atm) Why wat have we done?? bleeding console's omfg ( rage raging raged)
mark84 Feb 23, 2010 1:20 PM	Is this game built with XNA? Wasn't that supposed to make it easy to port code between Xbox and PC? But yeah, the articles explanation is a far better one than just "the pc is too intimate".
bbjai Feb 23, 2010 2:05 PM	well I think the reason is people make more money on consoles then PC cause its harder to pirate i suppose.
Blue Fire Feb 23, 2010 3:17 PM	It's more of unwelcome news than welcome news.
Rory K Feb 23, 2010 4:55 PM	So, a game that was announced as a PC exclusive is now an Xbox exclusive. Because apparently a PC is too intimate for a story driven horror/suspense game. WTF!? And apparently they were optimising it for quad-core and everything. This leaves me confused and disappointed. I still want it though...
index680i Feb 23, 2010 10:19 PM	PC platform too intimate!? What fucking drugs/ or retarded spokes person come out and say this? Too intimate! TOO INTIMATE! TO... INTIMATE. T.. INT. IMAT.. E!!? MicroCunts.
thesorehead Feb 24, 2010 9:52 AM	Alan Wake = DNF
deonast Feb 25, 2010 6:12 PM	Well and I thought my PC had intimacy problems, I guess I wasn't paying enough attention to it after all :)

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