So you all believe this game feels like Sony while being different or because its' different ?

I think you should especially say this to the one member who captures EVERY single Heavy Rain thread and always has to have the last word, no matter how many replies and red highlighting it takes him. I can't wait to see this game released - not only because I want to play it, but probably even more because I want to see him stop posting about it...

Really? What do I have to do to get moderated? I'm almost at 800 posts and haven't even gotten a warning, I feel so non-hardcore.

q.e.d.

Hey Gh0st4lifE, I'm currently writing a thesis on how to be a troll and derail a Sony thread. As of now, the workload is looking like a 10 hour endeavor. But with your help, I approximate that time will be cut down to only 5 minutes!!! Hell, just looking at your 'work' in this thread has given me some great ideas.

OT: Heavy Rain is looking very intriguing. Judging from the 9/10 review, it seems that QD really did pull of what they set out to accomplish. And in regards to Sony, they continue be the only one's out of the big three to invest in highly innovative and unique software.

From Flower to the Pixeljunk series to now Heavy Rain, the masterpieces just keep on coming.

Because if we gave it the score it really deserves [24/10], we'd get the label of "Bias".

I'm looking forward to this as long as it has quality production values with a decent story, interesting charaters and their relations with others and excellent acting and voice overs. Yeah it's definatley a Sony type of game i.e focused on us single player gamers who feel left out in the world of online matchmaking lol.

I think they feel as though the game feels like a Sony game because it is something that would have probably not have gotten the green light and financial support from any other company except for Sony when it comes to the big three.

Sony has a habit of doing this while the others do not.

Do you see Nintendo and/or MS dishing out millions and millions over a 4-5 year period for a title whos developers previous game most likely sold under 1M or barely above it?

That's great for the consumer, I agree with that. But unless people start buying these sorts of games then publishers will stop backing these games.

This game looks awesome I just don't see it doing the sales necessary to get either a sequel or similar games coming out.

Your answer is dictated by the most positive way to present Sony on these forums. They have tried and failed thus far to get genuine 5M+ selling franchises out. Had they done so your answer would be different because you'd change your tune to whatever is happening at the time.

Where did you say they didn't want high sales? No you didn't say that, you said "They prefer these artsy, story-driven games that don't do 10-20 million in sales, not even 5. They just prefer the top-notch quality, which as a gamer is most important." Which is like 100% BS. They are a business and they thought that pleasing the hardcore audience would work to sell the system. Since that hasn't they have changed tunes and you'll see them release many more casual type titles such as Mod-nations racers, wait for E3 and you'll see. As a business quality is subjective and means jack all, if they do well its reflected on the bottom line. A quality title for them is one which moves units and they don't care how it does it.

If the games don't sell huge numbers especially given the development + advertising budgets are moving past $40M for their titles and they are deliberately releasing more niche titles then they are fools who deserve to go out of business. However they are not fools they are simply making bets on a wide variety of releases in the hopes that one or two stick.