Alan Wake PC Cancelled; X360 More Compelling

Hmmm.... quite surprising though. But as a 360 owner, I'm happy!

I can't help but think their reason: "We ultimately realised that the most compelling way to experience "Alan Wake" was on the XBox 360 platform"
...means something like "we are worried that the game will be less than expected and releasing it on the PC would result in more piracy than the XBox."

It is probably that the hardware scene in the PC world has drastically changed since development started while the Xbox is largely unchanged and that may of prompted various issues of compatibility or performance.

There have been 2 versions of Windows since the development started....

Well, i guess there's one more game I won't be interested in anymore.

Should cancel the crapbox is what should happen, outdated kiddie garbage!

Didn't this get announced months ago?

Man another game cancelled on PC. To me though, I want to build a HTPC that will have a good GPU for gaming. I rather play on a big TV (with controllers) rather than at my computer desk.

couldn't care less, this game was one i was not interested in

How hard is it to make a PC version when there is already an Xbox version? Xbox 360 is based off of DX9 after all...

Meh I was excited about this game 4 years ago but I had assumed this game was canceled a year ago. This was one of the early announces for DX10 and that has come and gone.

Well, I thought this game looked as boring as hell anyway. so whatever

speak for yourself MS. I use a 40" lcd for my monitor for gaming pc 1080p

"best played from the couch in front of a larger TV screen." I have my Xbox hooked up to the same 26" monitor my pc is hooked up to, so their argument really doesn't apply to me at all. I do agree that they are worried about pirates, but xbox games are pirated too. Just another game that pc gamers will miss out on, but we'll be busy playing other games so why bother complaining.

That is the stupidest excuse that I've ever heard of....

I've been following this game since 2006. This game is what originally had me hyped about DX10. If Remedy wants to just bend over and take this standing, then they deserve the broken hips. I won't bother buying anything Remedy again.

Dude, is there a bigger fanboy out there? Maybe you aren't even a fanboy, but just a 360-hater.

It's funny because you use the same 2 phrases every time.

That aside, the current Gen of Consoles is way outdated. It's basically keeping PC gaming stuck in the stone ages of DX9. Hell, the ATI graphics powering the 360 is literally 6 hardware generations behind.

Fanboys are usually the first to walk up to the pissing line, but he "is" right.

I wonder if they will say later it was canceled for fear of piracy? Five years in development is a long time to ignore the PC. It's sad that Microsoft is on board with Remedy. I guess XBOX is more important than Windows. Or making their money back on the XBOX is more important. A fail either way. The more this is allowed to happen without some serious backlash from us, the more developers are gonna follow. Today is a dark day for PC gamers. These are big name titles getting scrapped for some pos console. I hope Alan Wake is a bust and gets a 6.5/10 rating across the web.

We've been promised this one for all of 3 years now.. great time to back out.
Epic fail, Remedy. EPIC fail.

"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."

What a load of BS! Most people have DVI connectors on their video cards. Well, get yourself a $6 adapter to turn that into HDMI, if you don't already have one. Then, a wireless XBox controller for windows or wireless Logitech Rumblepad. Ta-Dam! You are gaming on the couch in front of a larger TV screen.

If you make an excuse, at least make a viable one !

Oh yeah I forgot, pc gaming is dead. I wish I had remembered that before dropping 300 bucks on a 5850 - I coulda bought a xbox 360 and a case of beer

Ah, that brings back memories.
Tears open the old wound from when Microsoft a$$raped me and so many others by buying Bungie and making "Halo" X-Box-exclusive. Sure, we got sloppy seconds two years later but it just wasn't the same.
So I guess we can expect Alan Wake on the PC at some point. But since the X-Box basically froze hardware requirements for video games in 2005/2006 it's gonna be a long time until MS feels the game is outdated enough.
They must feel really secure about having the PC-OS-market locked in that they trample on the very foundation of that monopoly, DirectX-based gaming.
If I wasn't so lazy I'd start using Linux right now or if I had the money I'd get myself an iMac with beautiful factory calibrated yellow tint.
So I'm once again left to only loathe Microsoft.

they'll probably release it as a budget port to pc 2 years after the xbox360 release. by that time, we'll have dx13 hw on pc and the next generation of consoles.

Most propably true. DX9 port would be easy enough, but I think that Remedy wants real DX11 port and that is too expensive to microsoft, and would make 360 version look too bad in comparison. But it's MS that is payng the bills so that is what they will got. They can charge 50-60$ for 360 version and it will be easier if there is not 30-40$ PC version to "spoil" the fun.
Allan Wake still looks good, so if there is any game behind those graphicks it will be somewhat success even in 360 only format.

pffff.... so not fair.

gta routine to avoid piracy loss

Man the 360 and PC were supposed to be buddys..Sharing exclusives and what not.At least thats how MS made it sounds before the 360 came out.

This generation of consoles has turned out to be a curse for PC gamers.

S**t its a curse on gamers in general.

this is definitely very bad news, but for some reason i think i've heard this somewhere else a very long time ago...

Its not really a loss in my mind, PC gamers would have probably gotten some horrible 360 port which would have destroyed the game anyway.

MS is just plodding along on the same path they've been on for a good while. The XBox is only viable as a defense of the Windows-PC. If MS hadn't done anything, we would have seen the day when the new home computer would have become the Sony PS. And from there, it would have progressed, to the office, to web-servers, business servers, supercomputing.
Competing on the console market, undercutting profits, forces Sony to remain a console.
So far so good. But this takes on a life of it's own, thanks to stupid in-Microsoft feuding and competition. And there, the XBox crowd have been backstabbing, undermining and burying PC-gaming.
This is a huge strategic mistake by MS. PC-gaming is really the ONLY reason we need Windows. But there's a lot of things Ballmer doesn't understand. That's why MS haven't really made any progress with him at the helm.

He is with no doubt right about the hardware being waaay outdated. But that does not mean that the system no longer provides a good experience to the user.

However I cannot agree with you about pc gaming being held back by consoles. Yes if the hardware on the major consoles were all beefed up to current gen, then pc gaming would definitely receive a boost. But to say that it's the consoles' fault is going way too far.

I think that pc gamers really like to make the consoles out to be the scapegoats for their pc gaming problems. Wake up guys. There has been a major shift interest away from pc gaming. If pc gaming was more appealing to other gamers, then game devs would be making games FIRST for the pc and not as a secondary port.

I'm not saying I like it. But come one. It's not that hard to see that most gamers out there prefer consoles over pcs's...

Good idea, make a game for an outdated console.