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Chrizum on 11 February 2010
lolage said:
Chrizum said:
lolage said:
Tridrakious said:
lolage said:
Tridrakious said:
I'm not saying that it will hit a million (although I don't use sales as a scale of success), but it will be fine.

I'm expecting 500-700k within it's first full year.

and you consider that a commercial success?


For the kind of game it is yes. BTW I'm also being kinda conservative on my numbers.

your definition of commercial success is flawed, if that is considered succesfull for the series, nobody will produce  such games. 

500k may be a flop, but with 700k I'm sure the game will turn a small profit.

Considering how much was invested in Heavy Rain at least 2 million should be considered a slight success.

Please tell us how much was invested with proof and we have a discussion. Until then you're grasping at straws.



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nen-suer on 11 February 2010
lolage said:
Chrizum said:
lolage said:
Tridrakious said:
lolage said:
Tridrakious said:
I'm not saying that it will hit a million (although I don't use sales as a scale of success), but it will be fine.

I'm expecting 500-700k within it's first full year.

and you consider that a commercial success?


For the kind of game it is yes. BTW I'm also being kinda conservative on my numbers.

your definition of commercial success is flawed, if that is considered succesfull for the series, nobody will produce  such games. 

500k may be a flop, but with 700k I'm sure the game will turn a small profit.

Considering how much was invested in Heavy Rain at least 2 million should be considered a slight success.

How much was invested in HR?



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ruff_romeo on 11 February 2010

dnt think its a game ahead of its time....



antoniocm on 11 February 2010

I just tried the demo and I loved it. Like I expected, the game is a powered up version of Fahrenheit, with an improved story and better QTEs. I'll probably buy it first day.



lolage on 09 March 2010

well I was wrong, I admit I missed the sales by a mile.
Guess I'll have to eat my words now...



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M.U.G.E.N on 29 March 2010
CGI-Quality said:
My-o'-my how wrong so many in this thread were and how wrong the thread itself was.

Turns out that people WERE ready for such a game!

Amen to that



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flowjo on 29 March 2010

the game is a success in the eyes of the gamers the developers and sony and its already hit 1 million.

its safe to say that heavy rain was a big success for such a niche title especially, QD is already working on another brand new ip.

would love to see more games like this , heavy rain is easily one of my most memorable games i have played



Skeeuk on 29 March 2010
lolage said:
Tridrakious said:
My post about it closing in on 100k pre-orders alone, well I forgot to add that is only for the U.S.

I repeat this game will do fine.

I bet it won't do 1 million Life-time

lol @ lolage



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Carl on 29 March 2010

In the words of whoever invented the word -

lol



                            

Dgc1808 on 29 March 2010

You were wrong.



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