Alan Wake 2 Interview: Sam Lake Didn't Want to go 'Neck and Neck' With Spider-Man 2 | gamescom 2023 - IGN
We sat down with Sam Lake at gamescom 2023 to talk about Alan Wake's horror inspirations, its need for a little bit of comedy, and not wanting to go neck and neck with Spider-Man 2.
Speaking of other games, you moved the release date by a week and in an active transparency, I don't think I've ever seen before in-game development. And we're so used to, "Here's the JPEG on Twitter of the big text." And you see it and you're like, "Oh no, it's going to get delayed." And I saw yours and I was like, "We're in trouble. It's going to go all the way to next year or something." And it was like, "No, it's just a week."
Sam Lake: October is very crowded with awesome, brilliant games coming out.
Yeah, I just appreciated that you were like, "There's other games out there. Go play them, but also play ours too." What was the decision behind that? Because I loved it. That's the transparency we love.
SL: Well, we were looking at the week and we were looking at these brilliant, brilliant giant games coming out, Spider-Man 2 and all, and just felt like, well, we don't have to go neck to neck. We can just kind of shift it a couple of days...
