Treatment impressed with its new trailer of Alan Wake 2 through the PlayStation Showcase, but in addition managed to fire up controversy by later confirming the sport will probably be a digital-only launch. Right here’s what the corporate needed to say:
There are various causes for this. For one, numerous have shifted to digital solely. You should purchase a Sony PlayStation 5 with no disc drive and Microsoft’s Xbox Sequence S is a digital solely console. It’s not unusual to launch fashionable video games as digital-only.
Secondly, not releasing a disc helps preserve the worth of the sport at $59.99 / €59.99 and the PC model at $49.99 / €49.99.
Lastly, we didn’t wish to ship a disc product and have it require a obtain for the sport — we don’t suppose this might make for a terrific expertise both.
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Nonetheless, THQ Nordic has now stepped in to lend its assist in producing a bodily/disc copy of the upcoming survival horror title.
I imply… we did the disc model of Alan Wake for PC again within the day ICYMI 😉 And simply because ONE individual (or firm) doesn’t love bodily, there may be loads who nonetheless do. Give it some thought. We’d like to go at it once more! Full circle and all.
Alan Wake 2 is scheduled for launch on October 17, 2023 for PS5, PC, and Xbox Sequence X/S.
[Source – Shinobi602 on Twitter]
