I made a thread on this yesterday, but not tooo many would have seen it.
Still annoying though - such a lame excuse

A real poor excuse paid Microsoft spokesperson

Eh. Doesn't particularly affect me. I don't have a PC that can run it so I'd have got it on 360 regardless.

Well, I agree with him, but it'll still piss off a lot of pc fanboys supporters, although whether it will make it financially flop is another matter entirely.

Fantastic. My 360 died a few days ago, so I was hoping to get the PC version. Won't be able to now, crap.

What a crap excuse. I'd accept something like, "It's too difficult at this time to make it for the PC."

Not some half-assed, "Oh, lolz its better on teh console because you have a couch!"

I actually don't mind that excuse. What they say does actually make sense and there are games out there that are better on one console than the other because of that reason.

But still, to draw it out for such a long time and then use it is still a bit of a dick move.

Didn't they work on the PC version since early 2005?
Ah, those sweet, sweet Microsoft dollars. They can buy anything! :S

Oh well, the 360 will finally have another exclusive, let's hope it's good.

Oh, and most PC gamers will certainly say "Oh, not on PC? Well fuck that game!!!" But secretly they wish they could play it.

It's really childish really, people who wish they could play an exclusive game that's not on their console bash it and pretend they don't care.

Is anyone really that suprised?

Their just trying to bolster their exclusives, especially with Sony's MAG, Heavy Rain, and God of War 3, MS was probably looking for something to get people to pay attention to them.

Ah well, this is why I own every consol and a sweet PC. Nothing is exclusive to me >:D

As a 360 owner I won't be buying it, it just doesn't grab me. I couldn't run it on my laptop anyway so its not an issues for me.

I can see a port happening at a later date.

Yeaah. I also forget that people use gamepads with PC games and use high-def TV screens as monitors...

Well crap, I was kindof looking forward to playing this. But I haven't got a 360, and I'm not buying one for one game.

Idiots. Matching a game to the right "platform" is worth nothing if its not matched to the right audience. Even among console gamers I'm sure this title would sell better on the PS3 than the 360.

Logan Westbrook:

"Some games are more suited for the intimacy of the PC, and others are best played from the couch in front of a larger TV screen," said a Microsoft spokesperson. "We ultimately realized that the most compelling way to experience Alan Wake was on the Xbox 360 platform, so we focused on making it an Xbox 360 exclusive."

I have a 5m HDMI cable with which I can I can connect my Laptop/PC to my 32inch HD-TV and I also have a PS3 controller with a long cable...so I can play any game from the comfort of my bed.

Now...what's the difference between this and a console >.>. They could just tell the truth that they are too lazy to make it for the PC instead of giving us bullshit.

EDIT:

Abedeus:
Yeaah. I also forget that people use gamepads with PC games and use high-def TV screens as monitors...

What he said.

It doesn't have spehs mareenhs and guns. It's a sophisticated game.

What the hell are they thinking?

Logan Westbrook:

"Some games are more suited for the intimacy of the PC, and others are best played from the couch in front of a larger TV screen,"

If you jumble some words you get "Piracy hurts sales so we couldn't be bothered to make it for PC.".

Oh well, like someone said on this thread "Microsoft dollars buys everything.".

Meh. Wasn't ever all that interested in the first place. Seems like a terrible excuse though.

The decision to not implement Alan Wake onto the PC has been strongly considered for over a year now, so this should come as little shock.

Douchebags have been abandoning the pc for ages, ever since fable 2. Hope microsoft staff all perish in a fiery ball of death for this.

Please, what a stupid excuse.

jasoncyrus:
Douchebags have been abandoning the pc for ages, ever since fable 2. Hope microsoft staff all perish in a fiery ball of death for this.

Well you went straight for the old testement version of revenge didn't ya :D

I do wonder how well this will do on xbox, i'll likely end up buying it but i don't see it having as large an impact as i think people are hoping. It honestly looks like a game most people will want, but never actually buy.

Still, you got to feel sorry for those PC owners.

jasoncyrus:
Douchebags have been abandoning the pc for ages, ever since fable 2. Hope microsoft staff all perish in a fiery ball of death for this.

It's just one game, you know. PC gamers have tons of exclusives, just like console gamers.

That's what a lot of people don't get- each console has its own unique merits. None of them are 'the best', but all of them are equal. Neither consoles or the PC are 'dying', really.

well that's sad news for PC owners

but I'm going to get this game for my 360

Dear Microsoft,
Thanks again for shafting us PC gamers with your usual grace.
You gave us 2 installments of the Halo universe, you can Alan Wake on us even after all these years of development, there's no sign of Fable 2 (and as such I presume 3)...
You suck :(

A game that's described by its devs to be a psychological thriller does not benefit from the self proclaimed intimacy of the PC? Right.

"...abandoning the PC, saying that the decision was all about making the game as good as it could be"

Considering how every first and third person shooter that gets released on both PC and consoles need to have the console version considerably dumbed down by either assisted aiming mechanics or less enemies/lower difficulty in order for the challenge levels to be roughly the same, I fail to see how any game that uses this interface has any chance at being "as good as it could be" on anything other than a PC.

I'm sure Remedy sees this as well, being a former PC developer, although they're also probably sufficiently distracted by the big pile of money that the Microsoft truck just dumped in their yard for their exclusive title.

I am absolutely uninterested in this game, and as such i don't care that it is not coming to the PC, but i have to say, that is one lame explanation. How about you let your customers decide what is the proper way to experience a game, and not make the decision for them? I mean, that's assuming that this is in fact the real reason it is not coming to PC, which i think is not.

"Some games are more suited for the intimacy of the PC, and others are best played from the couch in front of a larger TV screen," said a Microsoft spokesperson. "We ultimately realized that the most compelling way to experience Alan Wake was on the Xbox 360 platform, so we focused on making it an Xbox 360 exclusive."

I play my 360 on a monitor right next to my PC in my computer swivel chair. In other words, in regards to comfort and position it's not different to my computer.

I guess even if I buy it on the 360 it won't be 'the most compelling experience because I don't own a sofa.

"Some games are more suited for the intimacy of the PC, and others are best played from the couch in front of a larger TV screen," said a Microsoft spokesperson. "We ultimately realized that the most compelling way to experience Alan Wake was on the Xbox 360 platform, so we focused on making it an Xbox 360 exclusive."

heres a solution.

GET A BIGGER MONITOR...... oh wait did they not think of this?

Or hell just use your tv as the monitor.

uhhhhh, couldnt they at least think of a more appropriate excuse?

/sorry about said rant.

Son of a bitch... I've been looking forward to this game ever since I heard about it, and now I won't even get to play the damn thing.

It's sad that they can't get their shit together and sort out the release platforms from the time the new game is announced. With the game three months from release, you'd think they'd have decided what they wanted to do with the game.