Heavy Rain was turned down by Microsoft over child kidnapping story

[Zappykins]

ghettoglamour said:

Zappykins said:

bananaking21 said:
well they missed out on 3million sales and over 100$ million revenue. however the most important thing to note here is that Microsoft was very much scared to take a risk here, while sony was not.

Right, like they were afraid to take a risk with Kinect and 20+ million sales later, or Halo, or etc. 

My friends and I tried Heavy Raid, neither of us really got into it.  Looked neat, but meh with the gameplay.

According to you:

Microsoft takes risks to catch casuals, Sony takes risks to please traditional gamers.

If a sci-fi shooter like Halo is a risk, you can say that about any new IP.

When Halo came out there had only ever been one successful shooter.  So ya, it was a tremendous risk.  To get it right they even bought the company, another huge risk.

As was delaying their console, the Xbox, so it could be so much more powerful than their competition. 

As was doubling the RAM on the Xbox 360 so Gears of War could be the amazing great game that it is.

I'm glad they take risk, for without Microsoft and their Silverlight, we wouldn't have much streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Xbox Video, etc.

I could go on, but the point is made.