Quantic Dream has no interest in ending Sony exclusivity, says co-CEO

"As long as we can create the games we want to create, we'll stay with Sony"

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Paris games studio Quantic Dream will remain an exclusive Sony partner in the long term, according to the studio's co-CEO.

In an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine, Guillaume de Fondaumière said that it was the nature of the Sony partnership that has spurred the studio to remain an exclusive PlayStation developer.

"We proved with Heavy Rain that we can be profitable by making a game for just one platform. Would we have made more money by going multi-platform? Of course, but on the other hand, we wouldn't be working with Sony as a publisher," he said.

"This isn't a partnership where we are forced by a big company into giving immediate results. That's fantastic for a studio like us. Ever since we started our partnership, Sony just said it was going to give us the money to build these games and we said we were going to work as hard as we could and reward it for its trust.

"We're certainly not going to change partner for the sake of making more money; that's not the philosophy behind our studio. As long as we can create the games we want to create, we'll stay with Sony."

de Fondaumière explained that Sony signed a partnership with Quantic Dream in 2006 and had fully funded the Heavy Rain project. He said the game, which has sold more than 2 million copies since its release in February 2010, was "highly profitable".

A rush of awards for the game followed, from BAFTAs to Game of the Years, and de Fondaumière believes this could have created conflict with a publisher, had it not been Sony.

"There was this one thing about our partnership with Sony," he said.

"After the success of Heavy Rain we sort of knew they were going to ask us to make a Heavy Rain 2, and we said please understand we're not going to do that. We said we still believe we can do so much more with something else, and they accepted our idea."

The studio's next game, Beyond: Two Souls, is scheduled for release in October.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/397418/quantic-dream-has-no-interest-in-ending-sony-exclusivity-says-co-ceo/

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"After the success of Heavy Rain we sort of knew they were going to ask us to make a Heavy Rain 2"

I respect their decision to make Beyond, but I wish they had done this, too. Some of the endings in Heavy Rain were very clearly setting up sequels :(

Hum...not exactly. I felt like the endings were rushed, or lazy job at the very end.

They could as well have used the Heavy Rain brand for their new game. Final Fantasy and many others do this.

There's no way to continue the Heavy Rain story with a direct sequel anyway.

Smart decision - I doubt there's many publishers (if any) out there that are so invested in experiments as Sony.

So you don't think the one where a  completely new serial killer challenges Madison was setting up Heavy Rain 2?

Put that in spoiler, please xD And I always thought that the voice Madison hear was the Doctor's, at least they sound pretty similar and Madison's mind is not entirely right.

Does sony own this developer? If not, then offcourse Sony can't impose deadlines. That would be just silly.

XD sorry, meant to do that.  But yeah, at her book signing, if it was just some doctor, I really don't see why she'd suddenly totally flip out.

Not exactly. Sony isnt responsible for paying employee salaries and building maintenance. Id imagine they be a tad more strict if they did.