I rub my crystal balls till they're worn out and see the future.
This will be hailed by critics everywhere and be lucky to crack the top 50 sales at any point in time and fail to make a profit.
No way, given what I've seen of gamers over the years and how much they are all talk, no actual buying, this sells.

The beauty of it is if I'm wrong, then it'll be a success. But sadly, I won't be.

I can totally see critics and consumers hating this game.
I hope it will be good, but I'm doubtful that it will be a completely quality title. Maybe a good story but crap gameplay, something along those lines.

This fills me with skepticism. The game isn't out, they have no idea what the sales will be like, no idea what (if any) demand there will be for additional content, but here they are implying DLC.

Concentrate on making a good game and establishing a new IP. I don't want to hear about you taking attention away from finishing your game and instead putting efforts into supplementary material. Here's a revolutionary idea: don't hold back content. Included it in the initial release, help establish this as a series, and THEN look forward to DR2.

You've got a significant challenge - introducing a new IP and convincing gamers that it isn't a lame QTE fest. Worry about that first.

@bickle
The problem with that us if you release and a title and then start thinking about DLC by the time it gets out the door people may have moved on. Especially with a game that lacks any replayability.

You really think they'll ignore the possibility of expanding the title? You think they'd wait until post-release?

I always wonder why people think devs can't/shouldn't multitask. There's no proof it hurts the title.

I hate when a developer says they are realizing DLC BEFORE a game comes out. It just says that want money and don't want to put much effort into the game to have the content there. And besides games cost around $50-$60 and DLC is around $5-$10. Why would I want the game if I I know it's incomplete on purpose? It's just stupid to me.

I am worried about how this game will sell. I think critics will love it, but it won't get marketed enough, and most gamers will find it too different to enjoy.
I mean, considering how some PS3 exclusives sell, the latest Ratchet and Clank, Valkyria Chronicles and such, this is a tough sell.
But the game itself will be a very interesting, unique and important step in the game industry, since storytelling is a very important subject in today's games.

I'm not really keen on this. Heavy Rain is supposed to be a novel. Considering how long it has taken them to do the main game, I'm not trusting they'll be putting out novelettes of value on a regular basis that also offer more than one or two hours of actual storytelling gameplay.

I would much prefer that they work to put out one game of this type of year with a solid and substantial storyline rather than nickle and dime us.

If people were genuinely interested in DLC, they'd be willing to wait for it. If you sold off your game before the content came out, then you probably bought the game for points and trophies anyway. People tend to keep the games they really like, barring some personal financial crisis or robbery.

Personally I think the advent of trophies/achievements has created an illusion of a limited window of opportunity for DLC. Withheld content for an extra buck is asshattery no matter how you rationalize it. If you want to expand the game, make a proper expansion, those who have an attention span that lasts longer than three minutes will come back.

Then again, these are the guys that couldn't sell Fahrenheit as an episodic game and thank god, because the Indigo Prophesy was horrible anyway. This game has zombies trying to pass for human. This game needs some more time in the oven, because I don't play games with the Madden 2000 eyeballs of creepiness in them anymore.

Here's a thought: Wait until the DLC is available before buying the game. The discount you get for waiting will pay for the DLC.

Oh wait. Is that the opposite effect they were hoping for? Oops!

Tekken 6 went half price in under 6 weeks. Why even buy a game on release day anymore?

@Xzyliac: All they need to do is leave it open so that content can be added later. They don't need to do anything else at the present. Regarding multitasking, actually there IS proof that multitasking reduces efficiency. And in addition to that, it's just pure logic: every minute spent working on code that may never get released (DLC unreleased due to lack of demand) is one less minute spent making the main experience as smooth and polished as possible.

DLC is necessary today. Games cost a fortune to dev and as you can see with the firmware updates that go along with the current gen, things progress at its own pace. Sure, if Fallout 3 shipped with all the DLC at the beginning, the game would have probably taken another year to come out, and considering how many people work on games nowadays, the publisher would have an even harder time to make up the money and stay in business.

To start working on DLC from the beginning doesn't make sense for the release of a COMPLETE game that can stand on it's own. But if, in the case of Heavy rain, that has been already years in the making, and they come up with something they can add-on but wouldn't be ready in time for it to go from alfa, to beta to gold, I say let it come out in the weeks or months to come to allow a polished product to be released.

Some of you think that the DLC is ready the day the game ships. Well guess what? even if it's not ready 1 DAY after the game goes to shelves, it's not gonna be on the disc.

And for the last time, people ragging on QTE for this game. SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS if you don't like it. It's the style they chose

I am pretty excited about this game. But it has taken so long to come out, I hope it lives up to my excitement.