Heavy Rain Sales Promising
Love it or hate it, Heavy Rain has the tough task of being one of the first truly unique games in this generation of console experiences. Jumping onto shelves in the same season as some truly great action adventure, FPS, and sports titles is a rough gig for any game, but exponentially more so when your game is a wholly unique storytelling device, upon which arguably rests the burden of 'proving' to the big publishers that we gamers will buy something other than our annual Call of Duty or Guitar Hero, and that investing in risky games with totally new mechanics can pay off in the end.
Luckily for gamers and for Quantic Dream, Heavy Rain seems to have some good potential coming out of the gate, selling half a million units in just its first week. It hit #1 on the weekly charts in the UK upon its release, and there's also reason to believe it moved hardware, with PS3 sales seeing a boost along with the game.
It's hard to say whether these sales will continue, but there is every evidence that the majority of gamers will be enticed to trying it through word of mouth, which so far is also considerable. This points to Heavy Rain having a longer sales period - not breaking day-one records like certain other games, but hopefully enough to earn a significant return for Quantic Dream and Sony. We still can only hope so, because unique and gorgeous games at $60 USD a pop will do more to enrich the overall vocabulary of gaming than will yet another shooter.
While we wait for more numbers, look forward to GayGamer's review of Heavy Rain from our very own Tiny Dancer, as early as next week!
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Posted to Video Games on 4 March 2010
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I bet the game is awesome.. if you can keep it from freezing and corrupting your save data long enough to get anywhere with it.
I only had one bug with it that quickly resolved itself after a pause (got stuck in a wall).
I'm glad it's doing well. I'd love more of these games (Shenmue plz), even if they don't necessarily have much replay value..
The only thing is there are high odds of this game flooding the used-gaming stores. There's only a certain amount of re-playability to it.
I love the game. The nuance differences are great to see, based on the end result of your choices. I never had any major bug issues with the game, save for being stuck in a door once and that resolved itself fine with a restart of the game.
>>>Scott said:
>>>The only thing is there are high odds of this game flooding the used-gaming stores. There's only a certain amount of re-playability to it.
17 endings, the chance of characters dying and altering the game, decisions and failing challenges altering the game.
Nope, no replay value there.
Yeah, but that replay doesn't take very long. I've hit the ending three times with varying characters making it or not -- eventually it gets really dull sitting through long scenes just to see what might change.
Yay Heavy Rain!!! I preordered it and I'm so glad I bought it for full price n_n
It's truly an experience like no other.
Sadly, I've only gotten to play it for a few hours ever since I picked it up on release day, cuz I'm so busy :(
@Blackrabbit... unless I'm mistaken, the "bug" you're talking about was the ApocalyPS3 and it was affecting all phat PS3s for about 24 hours and sometimes caused problems like corrupting saves.
That bug affected all games on PS3 phats, not just Heavy Rain, and it's very unlikely to ever happen again outside of that not-leap-year-clock bug of Feb 28th 2010.
I missed out on getting a special edition, which has kind of put me off on getting it right away.
I wanted those extras. Should've pre-ordered with Amazon, dammit!