They all appeal to different audiences. So they won't eat into each other's sales.

Heavy Rain releases on February 23rd, right? God of War 3 sometime in march, I think it's like 23rd and Final Fantasy 13 releases on march 13?

So no they won't affect each others sales.

Guys, are you really not understanding what will happen here?

All 400-500k+ people who preorder GOW3 are going to simultaneously cancel since FFXIII comes out the week before it. This includes those people who don't even want FFXIII. Who cares if PS3 has a 30M install base because 1M of them are getting FFXIII, who cares about what the other 29M want. Everone knows only 3-5M out of an entire install base actually buy games.

Yes I am trying to be funny but I know I'm bad at it.

NO NO NO
It is actually a very smart move, even though they had almost nothing to do with the release dates. This next month is a time when video game spending shoots up dramatically, probably from tax returns, and all 3 games target different audiences. I will be buying all of them, myself...

Heavy Rain will suffer but God of War will not.

Damn right. Tax return is the only reason I am going to be able to actually buy both FFXIII and GoW 3 one week apart from each other.

I for one will be buying all of these though! All look promising!

I am actually thinking of selling M.A.G. because I want Heavy Rain. I played the demo yesterday and the first part of the demo was kick ass.

It sucks having a limited gaming fund.

I also want RoF but I don't know where to fit it into my budget.

PS3 sucks big time this year when it comes to my damn wallet.