{"id":5435,"date":"2010-02-22T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"remedy-explains-lack-of-alan-wake-pc-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/5435-remedy-explains-lack-of-alan-wake-pc-release","title":{"rendered":"Remedy explains lack of Alan Wake PC release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Following what has been billed as a questionable explanation from Alan Wake publisher Microsoft as to why the game would not be released on PC &ndash; the publisher explained that the title was simply not &#8220;suited for the intimacy of the PC&#8221; &#8211; developers Remedy have offered gamers a better reason.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Remedy&rsquo;s Oskari H&auml;kkinen recently told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2010\/02\/19\/remedy-explains-decision-to-release-alan-wake-on-xbox-360-only\/\">VG247<\/a> that the focus on Alan Wake&rsquo;s Xbox 360 release had more to do with simple economics than anything else.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Frankly, we&#8217;re a small studio. We&#8217;re 50 people, and being a small studio, it makes a lot more sense for us to focus on one platform,&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>With regards to Microsoft&rsquo;s explanation that Alan Wake would be better enjoyed on its Xbox 360 console H&auml;kkinen added that it was more a matter of personal choice.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Saying that Alan Wake is best played of a sofa with 5.1 surround and a big TV screen, I think is more of a preference than anything else, we&#8217;re not going out there to say that PC gamers can&#8217;t enjoy it from their own PC set-up. We&#8217;re certainly not saying that. We have a strong heritage in PC gaming as well.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Unfortunately for hopeful PC gamers H&auml;kkinen also closed the doors on any additional ports for the time being.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Currently we&#8217;re fully focused on the Xbox version, and [as for] what the future holds, we haven&#8217;t got anything to announce, and we haven&#8217;t thought that far right now,&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of Alan Wake PC release due to economics, not console preference says developer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}