Finland’s Treatment is releasing Alan Wake 2 solely as a digital launch in order that the studio has extra time to shine the sport.
Speaking to Eurogamer, the developer’s artistic director Sam Lake and recreation director Kyle Rowley mentioned that the title is digital-only launch is all the way down to the studio wanting to place out one thing it may be happy with.
“Yeah, it’s digital solely, and form of coming to this concept, each from Treatment and Epic’s perspective, that is our present pondering,” Lake mentioned.
“It simply felt it is smart for this, and the timing felt proper.”
Rowley added: “As creatives clearly, by going digital-only it does enable us extra time to shine the sport. Like, a big quantity of weeks really. As a result of in any other case, the sport that goes on the disc, clearly it must be playable with out a patch.”
“We did not need to launch one thing that we weren’t happy with mainly, and that we did not need gamers to play. So hopefully this fashion we can provide you a greater model of the sport.”
Alan Wake 2 was introduced at The Sport Awards 2021, although we solely had our first take a look at the title earlier this 12 months.