Quantic Dream: Heavy Rain to be a PS3 system seller… when it finally arrives

Heavy Rain is one of the many PS3 games that seems to have been on the way for an absolute age but never actually appear. I’m loathe to mention PS3 exclusives in the same sentence as delays because it opens up a world of pain for expectant PS3 owners who are forever waiting for the next big game. And the next big game is always the one touted as “a PS3 system seller.”

As great a game as Metal Gear Solid 4 is, it wasn’t a system seller. The same is true of LittleBigPlanet, and this year has seen the system seller that is Killzone 2 fail to truly shift units. But Quantic Dream’s CEO David Cage is confident Heavy Rain is going to different. In fact, he suspects it’s already shifting units. He told IGN:

"This experience should be available exclusively on PlayStation 3, and we want people to buy a PlayStation 3 because of Heavy Rain. We’re really happy at the moment – and I hope it’s going to last – that when we go onto forums we find people watching the trailers and stuff and saying ‘this is the game that’s going to make me buy a PlayStation 3.’

I really do hope this game does well but could it be a system seller?