Since Remedy Entertainment’s game can’t appear on Steam (yet), the Finnish studio can’t show a good balance in continuing the long-awaited game, but according to them, this is part of the plan.
Tero Virtala, CEO of Remedy Entertainment, wrote in the business report for the first three months of the year that although Alan Wake 2 brought together 1.3 million sales by the beginning of February, the company was only able to sell most of the marketing and market recovery. development costs. Not the whole amount, just a larger part! For this reason, it is not surprising that the Finns recorded an operating loss of 2.1 million euros for the first quarter of 2024, although it should be added that they bought back the Control IP from 505 Games during the this time…
Virtala is not worried about the situation, because he sees that sales of Alan Wake 2 are still going well despite the higher average price. They don’t have sales rights yet, but Alan Wake Remastered and Control were able to surpass this level a long time ago, which added to the fact that Remedy received more royalties compared to the previous year’s product. The remaster of the original Alan Wake had a rough start in terms of royalties, so there’s no reason to worry.
According to Virtala, Remedy is thinking of either publishing the games for the Control and Alan Wake IPs, or looking for a partner again so they don’t have to play the part of the publisher. (In the case of Alan Wake 2, this was filled by Epic Games Publishing, which also financed the development of the game.) According to the Finnish company, they will make more money this year and their operating profit will also increase, and they will provide more detailed information about this when Control 2 and for the multiplayer Control spin-off, codenamed Condor, learn more about the business model and potential deals.
So the Epic Games Store ban is pulling back PC sales a bit.
2024-05-04 16:49:08
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