Entertainment Medicine August 9Public finance report for the first half of 2024has announced that the psychological horror masterpiece “Alan Wake 2” has recovered “the majority of development and marketing costs” eight months after its release, but it has not yet turned from a deficit.
“Alan Wake 2” features third-person horror gameplay. characters at the same time, playing the role of the main character Alan Wake in order to maintain sanity, trying to rewrite the story to escapefrom. and the new FBI agent Sajja Anderson, who investigates cases of serial murder they are involved in life and death.
“Alan Killer 2” has been on sale in October 2023 and has been on the comprehensive review network so far. Metacritic has a media score of 89players praised it with 8.6 points, and won three TGA 2023 awards for Best Plot, Best Game Director and Best Narrative.
But according toReported by foreign media TheGamer“Alan Alan 2” was well received but not a box office hit, Remedy onceAnnounced in February this yearThe sales of this game exceeded 1.3 million copies, making it the fastest selling game in the company However, the latest public financial report for the first half of 2024 (January to June) announced that this game has recovered most of its costs and returned. it has not started making profits yet.
Treatment is not discouraging The financial report focuses on the medium and long-term development and indicates that “Alan Alan Wake 2” is expected to be profitable launched in June and on received good reviews, the official is no longer limited to digital distribution to promote sales, and decided to release a physical version on October 22 of this year, and a collector’s edition giving a- include a set of art sets and other special bonuses in December. .
In recent years, the game industry’s development costs have continued to rise. Not only has cost recovery become more difficult, there are also regular reports of layoffs.
Although the specific development cost of “Alan Alan 2” has not been disclosed, the cost of achieving high-quality animation should not be underestimated. Remedy pointed out in the financial report that “good games can produce big tail sales.” They hope that the recommendation of this game will bring profits in the future.
On the other hand, Remedy bought the copyright of the “Control” series from the publisher 505 Games in February this year for 17 million euros (about NT$583 million). -production and remastering of “Max. Max Payne 1 & 2 has entered full development.
Alan Wake 2 is currently on PC (Epic Games Store)PS5 and Xbox Series S/X Listed.
