What kind of phenomenon is Heavy Rain?

[Seece]

darthdevidem01 said:

Seece said:

darthdevidem01 said:
It may not be a phenomenon but its definetely one of the biggest Sleeper Hits of the generation & the rise of possibly a new genre.

Really if we go by direct definitions there has only been 1 phenomenon this generation, Wii Sports.

Do you know what Sleeper hit means? It means something going big out of nowhere, if anything L4D is a sleeper hit, wasn't on hardly anyone's radar and sold v well. Even that's stretching the term though.

The real question is do YOU know what a sleeper hit means, most pegged heavy rain to end up below 500K LTD.

Look where it is now.

Heavy Rain DID go big out of nowhere, just because it had more hype on VGchartz than many other games doesn't mean it had hype in the real world, it had no hype in the real world prior to launch.

We'll have to agree to disagree, I know full well what sleeper hit is, the Wii is a sleeper hit. The fact that HR had a decent amount of pre orders before release, WAS hyped elsewhere other than VGC, had advertising and has been reviewed more than the vast majority of other games this gen (HR has more reviews than ME2, Gears, SSBB, Halo 3, SMG, GTAIV ect) means it's sucess wasn't out of the blue.