Quantic Dream co-CEO Guillaume de Fondaumiere has stated that Heavy Rain was pushed back to 2010 in order to give the PS3 exclusive its own release window. Heavy Rain is among many titles that have been pushed back in order to avoid a Christmas dominated by such releases as Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2, but Quantic Dream is one of the few developers to have admitted its reasons for a delay.
"The first and most important reason [for the delay] was the fact that I don't think that such an innovative game like Heavy Rain and a new franchise should be released at the end of the year in the crowded period when everyone's releasing there games," explained Fondaumiere. "A game like Heavy Rain needs space, needs to be explained and shown. At the end of the year, people can't afford to buy all those games so we wanted to give Heavy Rain the chance to have its own release window, and for us to really talk about it so people really understand it.
"If Heavy Rain doesn't succeed it's going to have important implications for other developers and for ourselves -- maybe people will think 'those innovative games don't work, games cannot really convey realistic emotions.' And they will continue to do the standard shooters and the like that we have been doing for however many years."
Quantic Dream has the right idea, but unfortunately about a dozen other games had the same idea as well. Something tells me that early 2010 has now become even more congested than pre-Christmas 2009 will be, since so many publishers had the same brainwave at the exact same time. I really hope that, in order to avoid a clogged 2009, the industry hasn't simply created a clogged 2010.
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9:20 AM on 09.02.2009
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Fahrenheit suffered mostly because it was unfinished and cut up like a whore stuffed inside a dumpster in a dark alley.
I am a tad miffed though, but it's for personal and selfish reasons. I got the go ahead for my student loan today. I want to waste my much desperately needed financial aid on mars bars and shiny computer games. This one in particular.
Besides, there are enough titles to keep us busy until it drops......I'm backed up til about 2019 myself with my DS and PS III games alone.
By the time it comes out, I'm going to hate it.
i mean, seriously, it's like your the insecure girl who befriends ugly women to make yourself look better.
and as a practical note, i don't think the people who are gunning for COD are the ones you need to be worrying about stealing your thunder. and if you ARE worried about that, then they are still going to be playing COD Q1 2010. the only difference is that there will be MORE games on the market. i mean, these people do realize that you can buy games that haven't "just been released" right? so the longer you wait the more games will be out there and the smaller shelf space you're going to have.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP.
@phantomile - agree 100%.
Nobody will like a game that is just 3000 QTEs back to back, so it needs less competition in the marketplace.
Or perhaps they could have released earlier? I wonder how many games were being sat on until Q4, only to be pushed back further once the CoD:MW2 hype train started pulling in to town?
This industry is so stupid.
I remember a few months back when they showed off some of the game they said something like 33% of the game is done.
Frankly, I was thinking middle of next year if I had to guess. Hopefully they'll wait until April or so to get rid of the post holiday game glut (which is bigger than ever this year) and take some more time to polish the experience as well.
If this game does well it could mean a lot to ALL gamers as far as more interesting, risk-taking games coming out.
I just downloaded the video for it off the PSN and it looks very interesting QTE's or not.
I'm no market analyst, but I think a game like this should have stayed as a holiday release. It's not exactly directly competing with a game like Modern Warfare 2.
God that would suck, this is the game I am having the most high hopes for!