Remedy CEO says Alan Wake and Control 'should have sold more'

'Remedy’s new CEO says Alan Wake and Control ‘should have sold more’ – and movie/TV deal will ‘help us do that’' www.videogameschronicle.com/news/remedys... www.thegamebusiness.com/p/we-intervi...

“But as franchises Control, Alan Wake, etcetera, could give a lot more. There’s a vision on thinking bigger for some of these IPs, which need to find its audience much, much further than the current audience.” Oh no Oh noooooooooo www.videogameschronicle.com/news/remedys...

Alan Wake 2 is a game about what it feels like to try to write a novel (sinking into a recursive lovecraftian nightmare populated by your own protagonist and your sexy European alter ego)

I love both of these series, but this goes to my problem with the number of game adaptations happening these days. Their foundations are obvious: Alan Wake=Twin Peaks, Control=X-Files. If you take away the interactivity and gameplay, it’s much closer to a plagiarism cheat code than adapting games

It's not rocket science why those games didn't sell more. Control had a one year exclusivity deal with Epic Games Store, and Alan Wake 2 is still exclusive to the Epic Games Store...and hardly anyone wants to use that storefront or client.

Once someone says “well this should have sold more!” even though Control and Alan Wake 2 did solid numbers, you can safely say they’re just looking for problems, which doesn’t end well

Remedy CEO Jean-Charles Gaudechon has said 'Control' and 'Alan Wake' should have sold more and the Annapurna TV deal will help them to do that. He also said he understands that people are concerned about his EA background but he will not change Remedy. www.thegamebusiness.com/p/we-intervi...

Alan Wake 2 still has exclusivity on the most dogshit of the storefronts, maybe try not having that!

Do Remedyverse games deserve to rank critically with Silent Hill and Resident Evil? I argue yes. Does this mean we need to enter an era of endless slop boulder-punching sequels like both of those franchises have endured, to milk every dollar out of Alan Wake? Fuck please no, god no.

Neither of those games would have been completed without those exclusivity deals. That studio is in the brink of bankruptcy all the time. They haven’t spoken about Control much but they openly admit there’d have been no Alan Wake 2 without Epic’s money

Remedy has had an unlucky string of exclusives deal imo. They are probably stuck in a “we need cash for development but we get tied into exclusives which doesn’t allow as many sales”. It’s a shame they had to sell Max Payne IP to Rockstar to fund Alan Wake all those years ago.

In today's edition of The Game Business, we have a world's first interview with new Remedy CEO Jean-Charles Gaudechon. We discuss his controversial appointment, and his mission to make Alan Wake and Control more successful www.thegamebusiness.com/p/we-intervi...

when it comes to alan wake at least maybe dont have these games exclusive to a platform nobody uses on PC?

love the alan wake games but tbh this just sounds greedy as hell and like money is their only focus rather than making good games 🫩 also if you think alan wake 2 should have sold more maybe don’t make it exclusive to the epic games store?? if it was on steam too it would have made A LOT more

I *still* haven't played Alan Wake 2 because of the exclusivity