Alan Wake has been out for 3 weeks now and seems to be dropping off VERY fast. It had a decent first week, and it has barely sold half that since. By comparison, Heavy Rain sold twice as many in its first week, and dropped off at a slower pace. Is Read Dead Redemption taking its thunder, or is this more fodder for the "360 is a shooter console" talk? Personally, I am surprised by this. Alan Wake has been talked about for years and seemed to be highly anticipated.
[QUOTE="Ratchet_Fan8"]Xbox Owners like Online,Alan wake has no online RDR came out... it was pretty damaged badly .. Alan Wake is in a genre that many more than likely wouldn't enjoy, other games that are singleplayer only have sold exceedingly well on the Xbox 360 so the lack of online is not a factor at all, and is frankly strange to me that it would even come to thought as a possible factor. Read Dead Redemption could and more than likely is possible cause for folks buying that over other games, since it's developed by a well known developer and the genre is more apt to be far reaching across many demographics. I don't understand the damaged badly part. If anything, I think the main cause if the lack of effective advertising.
I'd say it's a mix between RDR being so good and a very long game with great replayability, and AW being a game that fell under expectations and isn't gonna get u nearly as much value for your money. Tho i still think AW will pull some decent numbers.
RDR and SMG happened, I cannot fathom why Remedy would release it on the very same day as a freaking Rockstar game, and a week before a freaking Mario game, terrible, terrible time to release it.
Red Dead Redemption may be one reason. Another could be lack of interest. I have been avoiding it because i am not sure i will like it. I bought Heavy Rain because of the reviews and hype, and i have not played very much of it because it bores me. I dont want to make the same mistake with Alan Wake.
could be advertisement... i havent seen any commercials for it, but that could just be a regional issue
ogvampire
No I haven't seen any at all either. I said this earlier when the game first came out, that MS did no marketing at all for this game which could hurt it tremendously down the road. I only saw advertisements for it on the xbox website and thats it.
Red Dead Redemption may be one reason. Another could be lack of interest. I have been avoiding it because i am not sure i will like it. I bought Heavy Rain because of the reviews and hype, and i have not played very much of it because it bores me. I dont want to make the same mistake with Alan Wake.
RDR and SMG happened, I cannot fathom why Remedy would release it on the very same day as a freaking Rockstar game, and a week before a freaking Mario game, terrible, terrible time to release it.Im_single
Well originally Alan Wake was the only set title to be released on the 18th. RDR was supposed to come out in April then it got pushed back. I don't think MS wanted to push back Alan Wake (stupid move IMO). June would of been a great monthfor AW to come out (it would had little contest)
Red Dead Redemption may be one reason. Another could be lack of interest. I have been avoiding it because i am not sure i will like it. I bought Heavy Rain because of the reviews and hype, and i have not played very much of it because it bores me. I dont want to make the same mistake with Alan Wake.
Videodogg
Dude you should have played the demo first that game is terrible
I don't think it was advertised very well. The only ads I really saw for it were those Bright Falls trailers that would start off a lot of YouTube videos. Those annoy the **** out of me so I never buy anything that I see in those.
I also think Red Dead Redemption stole a lot of its sales. I don't think too many people would buy 2 games on the same day
Truth be told we don't know anything about the sales. All we have is vgchartz, which are about as reliable as a crystal ball. Heck, they claimed it sold horribly in its first two weeks yet it somehow was number 1 in the charts in Europe ahead of Red Dead Redemption which was multi-plat. It cant have done THAT badly.
Red Dead Redemption may be one reason. Another could be lack of interest. I have been avoiding it because i am not sure i will like it. I bought Heavy Rain because of the reviews and hype, and i have not played very much of it because it bores me. I dont want to make the same mistake with Alan Wake.
bigboss5ak
Dude you should have played the demo first that game is terrible
Just because you didn't like Heavy Rain does not mean it is a terrible game
[QUOTE="Funconsole"]Can you provide evidence?Anjunaddict
Thats what I was thinking. I didn't know Mays NPD had been released yet.
It would be released next Thursday. Also, can we consider only worldwide sales of Alan Wake instead of one country like the NPD report? Just because a game sales well in the United States does not mean it is the same in other regions. Just look at the sales of Dragon Quest games in Japan and compare them with overseas sales.
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