Could Heavy Rain mean the demise of Quantic Dream

[Rainbird]

@ OP
Scoring in the high 70's is not "well recieved", which is also what Mirror's Edge happened to score. I would translate that to something like "decent, but flawed".

Personally, I think that Heavy Rain has much greater potential than Haze or Mirror's Edge ever had.
Haze failed because it was a shooter that wasn't up to par with the rest of the shooters available. Mirror's Edge had that danger of going platforming in 1st person, and it didn't work well enough to merit high scores.

Heavy Rain is, like so many other games, geared towards an adult audience, which we know is a demographic already showing a strong presence on the PS3. So if this game is well advertised, while at the same time actually being good, somebody who fits the demographic going into a game store to see if there is anything for them might see a bunch of action heavy games and Heavy Rain. And if they remember the commercials (if these aren't shitty commercials that is), then they might just go "Oh hey, that was that good but different game right? Heck, I'll try it just for the sake of it."

Of course, this is a very optimistic scenario, and probably wont happen very often, but if they can stamp the commercials with those comments and scores from various reviewers (provided they are good) and still make the commercials good, then this might just be a success for Sony and QD.