MS amazes me with how many missteps they've made with the XBox which are nobrainers, in one case at the end I'll tell you where they look like complete IDIOTS.

For the 360 why wasn't "Every Party" released in the US? It was their competitor to "Mario Party" and had already been translated.
Nezumix, which translated to "Have A Mice Life" which is a perfectly cute name was released under the bland and nonsensical name of "Sneakers" in the US, exclusively at "Toys R Us". The title is more my gripe.
Quantum Redshift is actually a decent Wipeout/F-Zero competitor but never got a digital store release or a remake. facepalm considering MS has NO other games like this.
Magatama not being released outside Japan...if you are bragging about someone from FF working on this I don't care if it's too Japanese you PAID for development on it, why haggle over the comparative dollars the translation will cost?! While you had a number of noteworthy exclusives for it it still wasn't enough to break the PS2's hold at the time and this could be part of it. All of it should be at the forefront worldwide when you paid for it and along those lines "Tenerezza" and other Japanese style RPG's should have been translated for the West as the OG XBox ended up having NONE.
I say all this and will largely argue the OG XBox had the best exclusives imo.
Oh lest I forget you should have given as much support for Konami as possible for the rumors of a Suikoden 1-3 collection bundled with 3. The 5.1 would have been a wonderful addition to it.
Lastly, the cancellation of Level-5's "True Fantasy Live Online". Set to debut alongside or shortly after XBL which would have given a good reason to buy it considering online play was covered under it. For those who are wondering what I am talking about look up "Fantasy Life" on the 3DS...the descrption of gameplay matches TFLO absent online and it's considered a hidden gem. Way to go MS.
Oh and the Climax UK vs. Climax Japan was a collossal mistake and the height of idiocy. Millions of dollars wasted on the wrong dev. house because someone didn't do a Google search.

As it stands MS should reboot "N.U.D.E."(Natural Ultimate Digital Experiment" and see how it could go with just an AI seed.

I wish it gets released here but it's a long shot. I want all my Alan Wake games on GoG.

If you haven't seen it, the Alan Wake 2 PC requirements are super-stiff, requiring RTX 2060 and AMD 6000 GPU's and up....and you need to have DLSS or FSR on period.

Check out Daniel Owen on Youtube on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLao3bkw5s

Also, word is: Alan Wake II on PC is leaving Nvidia's 10xx and AMD 5000 cards out b/c it requires mesh-shader support, which is a recent feature on newer GPU's (AMD 6000 cards and NVidia 2000 series) supporting DirectX12 & a recent DX12 thing.

See this from PC Gamer - https://www.pcgamer.com/alan-wake-2s-pc-requirements-may-leave-amd-rx-5000-series-and-nvidia-rtx-10-series-users-high-and-dry/

I'd love to see this on GOG, of course - but, yeah, might not be a bad idea for them (Remedy) to port this way later to GOG, when people actually might have GPU's that can get good performance out of this game.

Maybe, but it doesn't say that.

The requirements are listed as followed:
Spec 1 + GPU 1 + FSR/DLSS setting 1 = Performance 1
Spec 2 + GPU 2 + FSR/DLSS setting 2 = Performance 2
etc.

That doesn't necessarily mean that you can't do, e.g.:
Spec 1 + GPU 2 + FSR/DLSS OFF = Performance 1

Published by Epic Games Publishing.

Not gonna happen.

Fair thoughts.

We still don't know entirely until the game's actually out and players are playing it...
...but to put DLSS and FSR in there as being used to hit that target or either 30fps or 60fps - yeah, that's really stiff and doesn't look good, you know?

This looks to be on or beyond Remnant 2 and Immortals of Aveum type of levels of stiff.

They never put Alan Wake Remastered on here or even on Steam, so I wouldn't hold out much hope.

Reportedly it's shit anyway due to overall pandering (for meeting those ESG scores) and the involvement of a consultation company called Sweet Baby Inc, who apparently are also responsible for sensitivity and representation bullshit in God of War: Ragnarök & Spider-Man 2, among others.

Alan Wake 2 will be the first (new) single player game published by Epic in decades. It's quite unprecedented so there's no telling what will happen. This is not your usual timed exclusive. They could keep it exclusive to Epic forever. It's not like GabeN has published Half-Life on Epic or GOG. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

It's also published by Epic themselves. It's not even on Steam. Then again... None of Valve's games are available on any PC platform other than Steam either. It's published by Xbox Game Studios. That's your reason. Microsoft loves DRM and Phil Spencer doesn't care about game preservation, regardless of what lies he feeds to the journalists.

I don't believe in "Technical problems". Where there is a will, there is a way. The problem is always with policy and with the decisions of big wigs. The game is 69GB. The episodes are 75GB. 144GB is not that bad for 2023. Xbox allows users to download the episodes, while PC players are forced to stream them. This is almost certainly meant to be another form of DRM. There is no reason why they couldn't just keep them offline, like on the Xbox version.

I fear for the day they shut down the servers that stream those episodes. The game will lose half of its story and appeal due to lack of care from the big wigs.

having played Alan Wake 2 for free, GOG is better off NOT HAVING alan wake 2 on gog.

The story is a mess with meaningless plot twists and the race swapping of the white female cop into a black female cop is absolutely stupid.

You spend more time playing as a black female cop than actual alan wake. FACEPALM

She not new character?

Sounds like they pulled MGS 2.

She is, they changed her during development to match the actress they liked. Ignore his racist idiocy.

So the character was race swap. Just because the voice actor was black? That's dumb, imo.

Funny, if this were a white person, they would just let him/her go.

Having played it as well ... it really should be here for everyone to enjoy! It's one of the most original games this year.

I love stories with different characters. When I planned my mission pack for JK yet, I was about to kill the character you play in the first level and the next one went to investigate.
(note: abandoned it after I saw how much work it was, but the design for the first space station was 70% complete, including docking bay, check in point where you had to leave all weapons behind, transport tunnels, center tower with different gravity providing an escape route from security forces).

The swap happened, as already mentioned, because of the involment of the "consultation" company called Sweet Baby Inc., whose job it is to tell companies how forcing quotas and diversity into entertainment and stories no matter what will improve their ESG and DEI scores and therefore investor money, on top of providing "sensitivity reading" services, which explains the meh writing from what I've seen..