Could Heavy Rain mean the demise of Quantic Dream

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Groucho said:

I'd like to point out that Haze and Lair were fully funded by their publisher (Sony). Factor 5 and FR apparently have just been unable to sell another IP to *any* publisher -- thus they are going under.

It has nothing to do with Sony, or the PS3... except that the games underperformed early on (which worries publishers, who are very finicky). If F5 and FR were clever businesses, they just wouldn't pitch such high-end titles to publishers, and would secure themselves a deal -- maybe several.

Bad business on their end.  They just couldn't roll with the punches.  Lair/Haze kept them in business for a long while.  That whole time they should have been selling other ideas to other publishers.  If they didn't... well.. belly up.

 

Haze was published by Ubisoft, Sony published Lair. Both games were reviewed poorly because lair was uncontrollable and Haze seemed half assed. Thats the major difference between those two games and Heavy Rain.

Since Sony is publishing Heavy Rain if the game does not make a lot of money then Sony sees the most out of the losses and The developer alot less.