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Forums - Sales - Heavy Rain...Heavy sales flop?

Well, clearly it has a propensity to flop, it's a project taking a risk. Unless it looks awful, and even though I hate QTEs with a passion that's, well, passionate, I'll buy it so long as it's at least interesting just to support the taking of risks.

In some ways I'm very curious how it pans out for HR. It looks, from the trailers, like perhaps the first real, true attempt to convey and adult narrative and story where the story and the experience is given greater emphasis than the gameplay - so assuming it plays okay and the story, script aren't too bad it'll be a real test of the true appetite for this approach.

I guess CGI might buy enough copies to give it a bit of a boost, though.



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I'm definitely gonna get this game but I'm thinking the possibility that it'll sell just over 1 million.



I think if the Game is good and refreshing, it may not light up the sales chart the first month, but as it goes, on through word of mouth it can keep selling, eventually hitting 1-2 mil by the end of it first year, just maybe by the end of this Gen, it could have sold 4-5 mil plus. Thats if it is a good game and not just an interactive CG movie. IMHO



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CGI-Quality said:
Seece said:
twesterm said:
A_C_E said:
I'd say over a million seeing as how you don't really have to be a gamer to play this.

Yeah, but how many non-core people own a PS3 and then how many of those buy games for their PS3 and finally how many of those will know about this game?

Flop is the wrong word but I don't think it will sell a million and it definitely won't make money.

Which begs the question, was it all worth it?

It's always worth it if you're trying to innovate. Sony has taken on the brunt of the expenses, as explained very clearly by Mr. Cgae. I'm sure they don't expect a tidal wave of sales either, but they DO want to bring a new and innovative idea to the industry. Call me crazy but that is FAR more important than just selling 5 million copies.

Luckily for the industry, companies like this still exist. It's one of the reasons I have so much respect for Nintendo, regardless of everything else, they care about innovating.

 

 

Reading this nearly brought a tear to my eye. Very well said sir



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As much as I hate Sony for getting the exclusivity of Heavy Rain, I don't want Quantic Dream to disappear because of the failure of Heavy Rain. So, I hope Heavy Rain will be big enough to cover the costs and give some change, but not a good success.



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shio said:
As much as I hate Sony for getting the exclusivity of Heavy Rain, I don't want Quantic Dream to disappear because of the failure of Heavy Rain. So, I hope Heavy Rain will be big enough to cover the costs and give some change, but not a good success.

You're just angry because it used to be PC exclusive.

 

And why DON'T you want it to be a good success? If it succeeds, more doors to future games like this will open, and they don't have to necessarily be exclusive.



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By the way Sony now own Heave Rain IP unlike before.



^ If that was a response to me, then I wasn't referring to Heavy Rain. I meant Omikron and Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy).



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huaxiong90 said:
shio said:
As much as I hate Sony for getting the exclusivity of Heavy Rain, I don't want Quantic Dream to disappear because of the failure of Heavy Rain. So, I hope Heavy Rain will be big enough to cover the costs and give some change, but not a good success.

You're just angry because it used to be PC exclusive.

 

And why DON'T you want it to be a good success? If it succeeds, more doors to future games like this will open, and they don't have to necessarily be exclusive.

I'm "angry" because it's not coming to PC (as we know for now), I don't care about exclusivity because Adventure games usually translate well enough from PC to Console, and vice-versa.

I want Heavy Rain to not be a good success because it would force Quantic Dream to think twice about not leaving the PC out again (by far the main platform for Adventure games)



shio said:
huaxiong90 said:
shio said:
As much as I hate Sony for getting the exclusivity of Heavy Rain, I don't want Quantic Dream to disappear because of the failure of Heavy Rain. So, I hope Heavy Rain will be big enough to cover the costs and give some change, but not a good success.

You're just angry because it used to be PC exclusive.

 

And why DON'T you want it to be a good success? If it succeeds, more doors to future games like this will open, and they don't have to necessarily be exclusive.

I'm "angry" because it's not coming to PC (as we know for now), I don't care about exclusivity because Adventure games usually translate well enough from PC to Console, and vice-versa.

I want Heavy Rain to not be a good success because it would force Quantic Dream to think twice about not leaving the PC out again (by far the main platform for Adventure games)

I was kidding, lol. Just throwing a joke at your sig.

 

Seriously though, I think Quantic Dream know Adventure games have a strong market on PC. But remember, Sony is publishing the game now, and they're definitely not going to consider other options besides the PS3 (obviously). You should give it a chance. If it sells well on PS3, then we can see more Quantic Dream games being put out multiplatform, and everyone will be happy.



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