Tretton: Heavy Rain will sell “incredibly well”

[Reasonable]

kowenicki said:

Reasonable said:

kowenicki said:

nen-suer said:

kowenicki said:
Its an adventure game Jack.

"its rare that you see a game that sells incredibly well and that impresses you" - no it isnt, what is he on about?

Yes its.

Certain type of games have certain sales expectations, and when a game sells well over that expectations

that's rare & impressive

well thats not what he said.

lol - I know.  I think it's what he meant to say, though.  I kind of like Tretton because he seems to have these odd speech patterns where he drops words from sentances, which I just find strangely amusing.  He always seems to drop the single, vital word that would actually make his sentances make sense.

 

You are giving him the benefit of the doubt... there are two things wrong here though.

1. He didnt qualify "sells incredibly well" therefore I have to take it at face value.

2. He has no idea how many it will sell after only 2 days.

Oh his comment in context is both vague and optimistic, there's no doubt about that.  Spin all the way.  I was more commenting on how his speech patterns always amuse me.  He reminds me of how Shatner delivers dialogue at times, full of odd pauses and emphasis on what feels like the wrong word.

Without qualification 'extremely well' is setting the game up for a fall I think, depending upon how you chose to judge that as you say.  For me extremely well is at least 4M in general terms unless qualified for the genre.  For example if Heavy Rain sold 1.5 M I'd consider that extremely well for Heavy Rain, but not a big FPS.

But really, I never put much credence into statements by any of these guys.  They're paid to push a certain message, which I understand fully, and as such I know there is little point putting any faith in anything they say.

Take Natal and Arc - both are very risky moves, but you won't hear anyone from MS or Sony mentioning the risk element at all, the focus will be on expectations and talking up the optimistic side.  Understandable, but just marketing noise in the end.