Alan Wake PC plans 'up in the air'

It'll be Saints Row 2 all over again.

I'm betting this game is gonna be shit, so consider yourself lucky no PC release.

@Shagittarius you constantly keep bitching about console games, face it PC gaming sucks.

Surprised?

I may get this on Gamefly for 360 and then purchase it when it comes out for PC.

Gamer4Life, how does PC gaming suck exactly? I could say console gaming sucks as well.

@nerdydesi M/KB is an uncomfortable interface (less precise I find too), cumbersome controls, too expensive, games don't always work when they should, manual installs, few games worth touching on PC, often games force shitty DRM on users, piracy on PC is unparalleled.
I gave up on PC gaming years ago, consoles do the job of gaming far better then PCs, and I can keep my gaming safe from the pit falls of the internet (virus/spyware/pop ups (yes I know there is software for all of those but that takes away from my gaming)).

A mouse is less precise than a controller? Stopped reading there.

@Gamer4Life

KB/M is less precise? You must be really bad with a KB/M to think that.

You obviously have never PC gamed, my G15 and Habu are definantly not "uncomfortable"

It's a 360 exclusive, it's not coming to ps3!

where did you get PS3 from?

it's being published by Microsoft Game Studios...

and there we have it.

A microsoft game is more likey to come out on the PS3 these days than on the PC.

That's not entirely true. I remember Halo 1 and 2 had that 'Only on Xbox' badge on it but it still came to PC.

Right, when it says "Only on Xbox 360", it may only be talking about in respect to consoles, without considering a PC version.

I like how you're a dumbass and and didn't read the story Joystiq posted 3 days ago that linked to the Shacknews story.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/07/alan-wake-may-scare-up-360-first-pc-later/

Idiot.

bravo, you're right I didn't... still though, there are many other real examples of joystiq being slow with news

perhaps this one wasn't one of them after all, I wasn't reading joystiq 3 days ago so only see whats on the frontpage today

anyway this move makes sense delaying it on PC.. it will eventually come out, but not until its exclusive to Xbox 360 for a while. Releasing it on PC at the same time will just result in more people pirating it instead of buying it, plus it wouldn't be a proper exclusive then, as most people have a PC, so other Console owners can still get their grubby hands on it without having to get a 360

It's not easier to develop for the PC. The 360 environment is a known constant. With the PC, developers have to account for a whole hell of a lot more variability in the environment: memory, CPU, graphics card capabilities, operating system, controller(s), multiple resolutions, etc.

Yeah, because clearly they shouldn't put it on the platform that will ACTUALLY make them some money, first.

There's a reason developers rarely put multiplatform games out on the PC first. Why give it to the pirates first and delay the cash flow that they'll pull in by delivering it to the millions of people who own 360s who will actually give them money for it? That would be asinine.

"the PC is a shit load of a lot easier to develop for then the 360"

err? where do you get that from?

I have not programmed on an Xbox 360 now, but...

the PC would not be easier to develop for than a Console... for a start PC uses DirectX and Windows, both owned by Microsoft, so if anything the Xbox 360 coding and PC coding would be almost the exact same.

But really developing for PC would be far more difficult than Xbox 360... there are so many different configurations people have in PC's, different driver versions, different hardware/graphics & soundcards, different versions of windows, different software installed which may cause a conflict... etc.. etc..

how on earth do you think taking all these factors into consideration, makes it easier than programming for 1 box where everyone has the same hardware configuration?

Piracy is also the reason we haven't seen Fable 2, Halo 3 or Gears 2 on the PC yet.. and are unlikely to. It seems Microsoft have pretty much abandoned the PC, it only hurts the Xbox sales.

@Snowblind MS abandoning PC for gaming doesn't hurt Xbox in fact it helps gaming as a whole cause developers don't waste resources on a platform riddled with piracy, that also has an inferior gaming interface.

Inferior gaming interface? Keyboard and mouse work for some games much better than a controller ever could, plus you can use controllers on a PC so you lose.

I don't understand how releasing this game on Xbox and the PC getting later would help. Most gamers will play mostly or only on the PC or consoles. Delaying the game for the PC will only hurt the PC gamers, not help anybody.

Gamers4Life,

Yet, if they abandon our platform completely, the technological advancement of yours will dry up quicker than a mud puddle in death valley. If it wasn't for our platform, your "next gen consoles" would be a marginal improvement over the previous iterations. Forgetting about the hardware (Xenos and the RSX are just the heavily castrated, bastard children of our own Geforce 7800 GT and X1800 videocards), most of the "next gen" visual effects you fanboys drool over were introduced in PC gaming before either of your systems were a glimmer in their respective designer's eyes. HDR lighting, normal mapping, ambient occlusion, procedural synthesis, object based motion blur, and even some physics APIs (notably, Physx) could all be found on our platform years before they could be on yours.

Hardware accelerated physics? Been there, done that. Using compute shaders for more sophisticated AI? We'll be doing it years before you are. Hell, we're even positioned to be the first major platform to adopt ray tracing (and or a hybrid ray trace/rasterization model of rendering) as it moves within reach of the consumer level market instead of being restricted solely to the professional and scientific communities.

As for an "inferior gaming interface" it sounds like someone went from playing Halo 3 or Killzone 2 to trying a PC FPS and couldn't accept he was getting his ass handed to him by people with far better hand/eye coordination. Here's a small tip, ace; in FPS, RTS, RPG, and most TPS, KB&M controls offer far more precision, accuracy, and overall speed (in aiming and movement) than what your gamepads are capable of.

Incase I was unclear, I actually meant that they've abandoned PC ports of their Xbox games because it hurts the sales of the Xbox version, and the Xbox in general, as many gamers see no need to buy a 360 when they can play most of the games on the PC.

Woohoo! Jackal is back to save the day! Always love your long, very intelligent and thought-out comments dude. : D

looks like i'll have an i7 v2 by the time Alan Wake appears on the PC :p

And the PC version will end up only using one core. ;)

I find it pathetic how Sony has released more PC games than Microsoft this year.

Yep. You hit the nail on the head. Same thing with people bitching about no LAN play on Starcraft II. PC gamers caused it by the rampant piracy rates. It's patently absurd how much of it goes on; and from a development standpoint there is little reason to develop big, expensive titles without PC as merely an afterthought.

Good work, Internet Jerks.

Its gone from the PC had many exclusives, to many of those exclusives going to consoles and now PC gamers hoping that a multi-platform game on the consoles will even come to the PC at all. : (

Diablo III still has LAN.. right? :(

I'm not sure if they've said so or not, Snowblind, but twenty big ones says it won't!

Diablo III is a Wii exclusive, thanks pirates!