There has been a surprising amount of Remedy news as of late. Aside from the growing hype for their next game, Control, the Helsinki based developer recently reacquired the publishing rights to one of their biggest games, Alan Wake. Now it looks like another company is also interested in a piece of the Alan Wake pie.
Remedy originally had games like Alan Wake, and Quantum Break published through Microsoft. In fact, Quantum Break’s TV side project was planned to be a big part of Microsoft’s entertainment push with the Xbox One, before that all fell through. Microsoft seems to be completely done with Remedy, which has led to interest from their biggest competitor, Sony.
Sony apparently has expressed interest in purchasing the Finnish studio. A source from PushSquare has it on good authority that Sony is getting ready to send an offer to the developer to join the family, and develop games exclusively for Playstation.
Remedy has stated in the past that an Alan Wake sequel isn’t being worked on in the near future. However, if they were to be bought out by Sony, it’s possible that their new corporate overlords could convince them to bring the creepy writer out of retirement, and into a Playstation-only adventure. Plus, this would also mean they would have the exclusive rights to Control, and if that game is a big success, all sequels would have to go through Sony as well.
Of course, no one has said anything about Quantum Break 2. That’s a shame, as Aiden Gillen probably has nothing better to do since Game Of Thrones ended.
This is an interesting situation, as Remedy’s independence seemed like something that was further cemented by getting the rights to Alan Wake back. For Sony to smell blood in the water, and want to go after them as soon as they had one of their key franchises back is pretty sudden. It’s hard to say what Remedy would have to gain from going to Sony. Sure the Playstation makers will likely back up a dump truck of money to get them on board, but Remedy seemed intent on moving past Alan Wake, and focusing on new IPs.
This is still just a rumor at the moment, and even the source at PushSquare says the chances of this happening soon are pretty slim so far. However, Sony and Remedy have been meeting lately, so if a full purchase isn’t forthcoming, it’s possible that Remedy may just be working on something special for the Playstation 5.
For now, Remedy remains independent, and is still plugging away on Control, which releases August 27, 2019.
