What?  He's the one that called out another game, I'm just asking if he's going to hold Heavy Rain to the same standard and I guess apparently not from his response.

Why would Heavy Rain be held to the standard of Mass Effect 2 or Uncharted 2? Nobody expected that much from Heavy Rain, well, outside of Sony execs....

The game has been in development in one form or another since 2006 and it's considered a big budget game.  So I have to ask you, why aren't you holding it up to the same standard as Mass Effect 2 and Uncharted 2?

The game has been in development in one form or another since 2006 and it's considered a big budget game.  So I have to ask you, why aren't you holding it up to the same standard as Mass Effect 2 and Uncharted 2?  I'm curious, do you hold Alan Wake up to the same standard as those two games?

Cost has nothing to do with appeal or potential audience, that's why.

I don't think it makes sense myself, but clearly you could spend $100 Million on a game or film that due to it's content was hugely niche in appeal and it wouldn't make sense to compare it to a title designed to have mass appeal (the high cost simply means you're chances of making a profit are not too good).

Heavy Rain is a niche title IMO whichever way you slice it, unless it manages to 'cross over' due to reviews/word of mouth, and therefore there's no sensible point comparing it to anything other than niche titles until we see how it performs over 4 to 5 weeks to see how front loaded it looks and whether it does manage to break out somewhat to be more generally appealing.

As for ME2 I don't see why its a surprise it's below Uncharted 2, ME2 itself represents a genre with (in my opinion) a smaller potential demand base than Uncharted 2.  ME2 is selling better than ME1 ( so far as I'm aware) which is what Bioware will be looking at I guess and probably a better relfection of how ME2 is performing relative to its genre.  Uncharted 2 has just won yet another bunch of awards, including some BAFTA's I believe, which will contribute to its legs due to continued awareness plus re-enforcement of the game as the best of 2009 overall.

Let's all be chill.

Cost has nothing to do with appeal or potential audience, that's why.

I don't think it makes sense myself, but clearly you could spend $100 Million on a game or film that due to it's content was hugely niche in appeal and it wouldn't make sense to compare it to a title designed to have mass appeal (the high cost simply means you're chances of making a profit are not too good).

Heavy Rain is a niche title IMO whichever way you slice it, unless it manages to 'cross over' due to reviews/word of mouth, and therefore there's no sensible point comparing it to anything other than niche titles until we see how it performs over 4 to 5 weeks to see how front loaded it looks and whether it does manage to break out somewhat to be more generally appealing.

As for ME2 I don't see why its a surprise it's below Uncharted 2, ME2 itself represents a genre with (in my opinion) a smaller potential demand base than Uncharted 2.  ME2 is selling better than ME1 ( so far as I'm aware) which is what Bioware will be looking at I guess and probably a better relfection of how ME2 is performing relative to its genre.  Uncharted 2 has just won yet another bunch of awards, including some BAFTA's I believe, which will contribute to its legs due to continued awareness plus re-enforcement of the game as the best of 2009 overall.

Let's all be chill.

Just to correct a misconception in this thread, Mass Effect 2 on one system is charting below Uncharted 2, but if you combine the sales of both the PC and 360 versions then Mass Effect 2 is ahead of Uncharted 2 and that isn't even counting digital downloads of the game.