
The release of the project is scheduled for 2023, and a little earlier, in 2021, a remaster of the first part has already been released, which will allow you to enjoy the beginning of the story in high quality on modern consoles.

Remedy’s reasons are absolutely valid and we are sure that among readers there are many gamers who have not bought a physical game for several years moreover, knowing that Alan Wake 2 will cost slightly less than the canonical €70 since it is only distributed digitally to everyone makes us a little more likeable even the Epic Games Publishingthe house that takes care of publishing the game.Alan Wake 2 is the long-awaited part of the cult horror from Remedy Entertainment, first released in 2010. The first of the reasons is precisely the market trend: physical games are of less and less interest to gamers and are fast becoming a collector’s item the second reason is related to pricesince printing a physical game and shipping it around the world has significant costs – which are cut at the root if you decide to distribute the game only in digital version.įinally, the third reason, which we have actually been carrying around for years and which has rarely been openly addressed by a software house as in this case, is that even if it had been printed in a physical version on disk, the game it would have needed a download anyway additional to be playable, making it basically useless to have purchased the physical copy. The game developer, Remedy Entertainmentconfirmed that it will not be possible to purchase a physical copy of Alan Wake 2 since they will not be printed, for various reasons that the company has taken care to tell its fans in detail.

With the arrival on the market of consoles like the PS5, also offered in a Digital version without an optical reader, it was only a matter of time before a triple A game was also released digitally onlywithout a physical version: an early example is Alan Wake 2the release of which was recently announced for the next one October 17th.
