Markus Maki vom Entwickler Remedy Entertainment erklärte jetzt weitere Gründe für die Xbox 360-Exklusivität des Spiels.
Markus Maki sagte in einem Interview, dass Alan Wake zuerst für PS3, Xbox 360 und den PC geplant war, aber Microsofts Angebot zur Xbox 360-Exklusivität war einfach zu gut, um es abzustreiten und somit einen kleineren Verkaufsmarkt wegen der Exklusivität zu haben.
“Our strategy was one of focus. That’s actually a really core Remedy element, well if you forget the ambitious goals we had. We needed to be top notch in some areas, but we knew we couldn’t do everything better than some developers out there. For example, this meant there was no multiplayer. That wasn’t in our core set of skills and it would have been a huge effort. We also took the approach to license middleware that made sense, even when we didn’t end up using it all for one reason or another. And then, the big deal – to go with Microsoft and take one big technological effort, the PS3, out of the equation. That then changed the technology risk to a business risk – but that’s a subject for a different talk altogether…”
Maki sagte auch, dass die Entwickler darüber nachgedacht hatten die Engine von Alan Wake zu ändern und die Unreal Engine zu benutzen.
“We looked at Unreal and other technologies out there, but this was actually before the PS3 and Xbox 360 were ever even released,” he said. “We also had all three platforms planned in the beginning – PC, 360 and PS3. I think it’s safe to say now overly optimistic view of the schedule. At that point, we didn’t dare commit to shipping a game on third-party tech until the developers of that tech had shipped a game on each of those platforms. Five years later, [I'll admit] that the reasoning wasn’t solid because these guys beat us to the punch easily.”
Trotzdem ist der Entwickler zufrieden mit der erstellten Engine für das Spiel, das im letzten Jahr erschien.
Über Alan Wake 2 wird zudem schon oft von Remedy geredet. Bisher gibt es keine Bestätigung für das Spiel oder wann es erscheinen soll.
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Game: Alan Wake | Genre: Action-Abenteuer | System(e): Xbox 360 | Release: 14.05.2010
Hersteller: Electronic Arts | Entwickler: Remedy Entertainment | USK: ab 16, uncut
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