“It’s way above my expectations in my craziest dreams, to be honest with you,” he told Industry Gamers in a recent interview. “We thought the feedback would be very polarized until the game was released, but now that it’s been released we see that out of 373 reviews the game has an average of 9 out of 10.
So it’s actually not polarized at all. What is very interesting also is that the mainstream press reacted very positively to it; these people usually only talk about games because of violence or addiction issues or whatever. But they talked about it because it was very new, really original and innovative. Most of all, it’s gamers who know whether it’s interesting or not, and the game really exceeded any expectations during the first two weeks. It’s sold out in many countries and the sales definitely exceeded what we expected.”
Cage also gave credit to word of mouth from gamers which he said helped garner a positive perception.
“The word of mouth seems to be incredibly positive about the game, when reading reviews and talking to gamers. Sony did some investigations about satisfaction ratio and it’s between 90 to 95 percent. So it’s polarized between the people who played it and didn’t play it, because for those who played it’s really, really positive.”
http://www.gamesthirst.com/2010/03/19/heavy-rains-success-beyond-my-craziest-dreams-says-cage/
Hope they ll do another game this gen.(their past history suggest otherwise but non of their games were this successful.
