Treatment Leisure has launched its monetary assertion for the primary quarter of 2024, and it seems like survival horror sequel Alan Wake 2 has but to make again its improvement and advertising and marketing funds.
Within the assertion, Treatment says that Alan Wake 2, which had bought 1.3 million copies finally depend (thus making it the fastest-selling Treatment recreation), has “recouped a big a part of the event and advertising and marketing bills” as of Q1 2024, i.e. not the whole thing of stated bills.
Nonetheless, that hasn’t stopped Treatment reporting improved income when in comparison with the identical interval a 12 months in the past; the Finnish studio says its income this quarter was 10.8 million euros, representing a 56.2% improve over final 12 months’s first quarter.
Treatment’s monetary assertion additionally contains updates on the studio’s ongoing initiatives, together with Management spinoff Codename Condor, which can or could not finally be known as FBC: Firebreak.
Condor is, in keeping with Treatment, in “the ultimate improvement stage earlier than a recreation is launched”. The studio says the sport’s core loop is “participating”, and that it’s going to carry a “distinctive Treatment angle” to the style (by which it presumably means live-service multiplayer shooters).
As for Management 2, the upcoming sequel to 2019’s mind-bending journey Management, Treatment says that mission will “advance to the manufacturing readiness stage” within the latter a part of this 12 months.
The upcoming Max Payne remakes, in the meantime, will transfer into full manufacturing later in 2024, whereas Codename Kestrel continues to be being refined “within the idea stage”. It will doubtless be a very good whereas earlier than the latter recreation will get formally unveiled.
Kestrel is being labored on alongside Tencent, which just lately elevated its funding in Treatment from 5% to nearly 15% of the Finnish developer’s shares.
Treatment concludes its assertion by referring again to the acquisition of the rights to Management from former writer 505 Video games.
The studio says it may well now select how greatest to develop Management and Alan Wake at its personal discretion, and that it expects income and working revenue to develop all through the remainder of the 12 months.
After all, one of many methods Treatment might generate some extra income for Alan Wake 2 can be to launch the sport on Steam, but it surely’s not clear whether or not that’ll occur or not.
In a convention name discussing in the present day’s monetary outcomes, Treatment is requested outright whether or not Alan Wake 2 will probably be made obtainable on different PC platforms, together with Steam.
Treatment refuses to be drawn on the reply, although; the studio says that though it acknowledges the “hypothesis” relating to Alan Wake 2 on Steam, Treatment has nothing to announce on this entrance in the meanwhile.
Whether or not or not this occurs stays to be seen, however for now, Treatment’s short-term purpose will doubtless be to make sure that Alan Wake 2 can flip a revenue. Let’s hope the sport’s upcoming DLC can flip that dream right into a actuality.