'Crowded' Christmas pushed Heavy Rain back to 2010
- Posted July 13th, 2009 at 13:30 EDT by Mike Harradence
- 24 Comments
Quantic Dream's Guillaume de Fondaumiere has revealed that the decision to push Heavy Rain into 2010 boiled down to the firm wanting to avoid the traditionally busy Christmas period, fearing the psychological thriller may get lost in the holiday shuffle.
“Purely from my perspective, most publishers today realise that it’s not ideal to release a new IP or a new genre just before Christmas,” de Fondaumiere told GI.biz at the GameHorizon event.
“It’s a very crowded place to be, and certain games need more space to live their life. Everybody at working on the project, both at Quantic and Sony, believe this is the right time,” he added.
PSU recently had the opportunity to go hands-on with the eagerly anticipated PlayStation 3 exclusive, our impressions of which can be read here. Stay tuned for more coverage on Heavy Rain as it becomes available.
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DarkVincent07 |
DarkVincent07- 1:35pm BST - July 13th, 2009
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Im not suprised, and logically its a good market stragegy, but
SONY! IF YOU ARE LISTENING!!
Dont announce your games so early!!! -
TekkenLord |
HitMan00- 1:39pm BST - July 13th, 2009
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I agree, get more time to make any new adjustments. Most parents are going to buy MAG, Uncharted 2, Ninja Gaiden sigma 2, COD MW2, and some wii games. Good thinking Quantic and Sony
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hateroftheyear |
HATERoftheYEAR- 2:30pm BST - July 13th, 2009
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polish. polish, polish, and more polish. this game should have no glitches at all.....I for one can't wait and would have paid for it day one even if it came out on the day i died.......wait.....disregard that last thing
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MysticStrummer |
MysticStrummer- 5:37pm BST - July 13th, 2009
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@11 - This is clearly a good move. Though Heavy Rain is an amazing looking game, it is a niche title gameplay wise and would definitely see fewer sales if released for the holidays. MW 1.5 will see monster sales even if it's not that great, because mindless FPS games are clearly what the public wants.
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hillybilly |
apeh- 5:42pm BST - July 13th, 2009
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@11 your kidding right? Its an obvious buisness choice to use - just look at the potential AAA games already up at christmas!! Its nothing to do with being unfinished, sure they will take the time to polish it more but its to do with what they say, it dosent take a genius to see how many kickass games are already lined up this autumn./winter
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Nicholes
- 8:12pm BST - July 13th, 2009
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A lot of games do get lost in the shuffle because of a full holiday lineup.
I dunno but users made so much hype for this game I have a feeling this game will go the way of Haze.. its a shame cause I had nothing against haze, I didn't love it either, but I thought It was a standard FPS.
Note! I said USER made hype NOT sony made hype.
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zombieking36
- 8:28pm BST - July 13th, 2009
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They said this before I think. I believe it was to give room to Uncharted 2, like Killzone 2 and Resistance 2 for last year.
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restored_lost |
Restored_lost- 8:30pm BST - July 13th, 2009
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this is good i suppose, remember valkyria chronicles? i was the only one who bought that game when it came out lol(im kidding im sure others bought it)
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ChocolateBuddy |
JWdarkn3ss- 1:53am BST - July 14th, 2009
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! this is the worst news i've heard in a long time.
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