PS3 scores Quantic Dream exclusive. (makers of Indigo Prophecy/Farenheit).

Most likely, this game will turn out to be Heavy Rain (trailer shown at E3 06) which was once multiplatform but nothing has been said yet.

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Sony seem to have a habit of scoring franchises before they get big. I wonder how this will play out

Also known as Indigo Prophecy in America. I've heard that Heavy Rain is a prequel to Indigo Phrophecy/ Farenheit.Acid08

Actually, reading over an interview from E3 06 with IGN it seems Sony had shown some early interest, assisting with the demo and allowing it to be shown in their booth (a helping hand for a French developer). Now they are the exclusive publishers for the game which could very well receive critical praise (given their previous project).

Shows how some good ol' fashioned courting can secure exclusives :).

Why did I hear HR is multiplat previously?

I think this says it all:

Needless to say I am very excited for this. I loved Indigo Prophecy and after seeing that E3 trailer I can't wait to see what they will be doing with the PS3's power.

Will it have a coherent ending this time?

Really though, I don't get it. This game at best will be a cult-classic and take up a niche in the Playstation 3 library. If you have a game that is good but not very well-known, you think you would want to put it on 360 with the high attach ratio and more systems out there. None of this makes sense unless Sony, in a blunder, thinks this will be a hit and slipped them a few.

Foolio1

Nicely done. I like it.

It's the game that was known as Heavy Rain....I'm really looking forward to it.

Though I'm bummed this means no PC version, it's a good exclusive for PS3. This, Fumito Ueda's new project, and the possible announcement of God of War III will probably drive me to get a PS3.

Sony seem to have a habit of scoring franchises before they get big. I wonder how this will play out

crestfallen12

That's one thing everyone should give Sony credit for. They really seem to have a knack for seeing serious potential from developers and really allowing it to flourish.

To think that Media Molecule (makers of Little Big Planet) wanted to put it on the Wii but Nintendo was unresponsive....Sony might've scored big there as well.

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Sony seem to have a habit of scoring franchises before they get big. I wonder how this will play out

Vampyronight

That's one thing everyone should give Sony credit for. They really seem to have a knack for seeing serious potential from developers and really allowing it to flourish.

To think that Media Molecule (makers of Little Big Planet) wanted to put it on the Wii but Nintendo was unresponsive....Sony might've scored big there as well.

While Sony's current posture (letting big exclusives courted by MS go, but seeking to create new exclusives with the aid of developers without megahits under their belts) is undoubtedly due in part to its weak financial posititon vi a vi MS, their gamble appears to be paying off. Flow (which is a blown up version of ashareware game) is unlike anything else I have played in my 29 years of gaming and Heavenly Sword and Littlebigplanet both look extremely promising.

I missed Indigo Prophecy and Fahrenheit so I can't say I'm too excited about this exclusive just yet, though the Heavy Rain trailer was quite memorable.

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Sony seem to have a habit of scoring franchises before they get big. I wonder how this will play out

CarnageHeart

That's one thing everyone should give Sony credit for. They really seem to have a knack for seeing serious potential from developers and really allowing it to flourish.

To think that Media Molecule (makers of Little Big Planet) wanted to put it on the Wii but Nintendo was unresponsive....Sony might've scored big there as well.

While Sony's current posture (letting big exclusives courted by MS go, but seeking to create new exclusives with the aid of developers without megahits under their belts) is undoubtedly due in part to its weak financial posititon vi a vi MS, their gamble appears to be paying off. Flow (which is a blown up version of ashareware game) is unlike anything else I have played in my 29 years of gaming and Heavenly Sword and Littlebigplanet both look extremely promising.

I missed Indigo Prophecy and Fahrenheit so I can't say I'm too excited about this exclusive just yet, though the Heavy Rain trailer was quite memorable.

Actually there is normally two reasons why...One of the being you have a great chance of getting that something special hit...The other as you stated is...Finicial costs. Really about all Sony has to do is pay for development. Nothing else to deal with such like...Ala Bioware.

Its good and bad...They get them earlier and cheap.

I'm just glad that they announced Omikron 2 as multiplatform... I played the Indigo Prophecy demo and it didn't do anythnig for me and that heavy rain tech demo looked nice but again, nothing to look forward to.

As for Omikron 2... the first one had a lot of promise to it but i believe it was hindered by the tech at the time... can't wait until it hits these more powerful systems

Will it have a coherent ending this time?

Really though, I don't get it. This game at best will be a cult-classic and take up a niche in the Playstation 3 library. If you have a game that is good but not very well-known, you think you would want to put it on 360 with the high attach ratio and more systems out there. None of this makes sense unless Sony, in a blunder, thinks this will be a hit and slipped them a few.

AtomicTangerine

Indigo bombed on the xbox/ps2 equally in the US, the userbase/attach base has nothing to do with the sales of a risky game like this.

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Will it have a coherent ending this time?

Really though, I don't get it. This game at best will be a cult-classic and take up a niche in the Playstation 3 library. If you have a game that is good but not very well-known, you think you would want to put it on 360 with the high attach ratio and more systems out there. None of this makes sense unless Sony, in a blunder, thinks this will be a hit and slipped them a few.

trifecta_basic

Indigo bombed on the xbox/ps2 equally in the US, the userbase/attach base has nothing to do with the sales of a risky game like this.

Right, but if you have a game that not many people are going to buy no matter what you do, why would you put it on the platform that the least amount of people will have who also don't buy too many games? It just doesn't make sense unless Sony is slipping them enough money, but then I wonder why Sony thinks this game will be popular apart from the adventure game niche.

[QUOTE="trifecta_basic"][QUOTE="AtomicTangerine"]

Will it have a coherent ending this time?

Really though, I don't get it. This game at best will be a cult-classic and take up a niche in the Playstation 3 library. If you have a game that is good but not very well-known, you think you would want to put it on 360 with the high attach ratio and more systems out there. None of this makes sense unless Sony, in a blunder, thinks this will be a hit and slipped them a few.

AtomicTangerine

Indigo bombed on the xbox/ps2 equally in the US, the userbase/attach base has nothing to do with the sales of a risky game like this.

Right, but if you have a game that not many people are going to buy no matter what you do, why would you put it on the platform that the least amount of people will have who also don't buy too many games? It just doesn't make sense unless Sony is slipping them enough money, but then I wonder why Sony thinks this game will be popular apart from the adventure game niche.

Because Sony has a proven track record of supporting such endeavors.

[QUOTE="AtomicTangerine"][QUOTE="trifecta_basic"][QUOTE="AtomicTangerine"]

Will it have a coherent ending this time?

Really though, I don't get it. This game at best will be a cult-classic and take up a niche in the Playstation 3 library. If you have a game that is good but not very well-known, you think you would want to put it on 360 with the high attach ratio and more systems out there. None of this makes sense unless Sony, in a blunder, thinks this will be a hit and slipped them a few.

trifecta_basic

Indigo bombed on the xbox/ps2 equally in the US, the userbase/attach base has nothing to do with the sales of a risky game like this.

Right, but if you have a game that not many people are going to buy no matter what you do, why would you put it on the platform that the least amount of people will have who also don't buy too many games? It just doesn't make sense unless Sony is slipping them enough money, but then I wonder why Sony thinks this game will be popular apart from the adventure game niche.

Because Sony has a proven track record of supporting such endeavors.

Both MS and Sony have shown that they don't consider commercial failure and creative failure synonymous. Rare racked up several commercial failures before the Stamper brothers decided to retire and Sony continued to support Team Ico even after Ico's miserable sales (Shadow actually sold decently). Along those same lines, recently one of the heads of SCEA blamed Loco Roco's (which was developed by a former member of Team Ico) lackluster North American sales on the fact that SCEA hadn't promoted it properly. Not to say that profits aren't the bottom line for either company (of course they are), but both are willing to fund risky games and not immediately blame/punish the developer if the gamble doesn't pay off.

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Will it have a coherent ending this time?

Really though, I don't get it. This game at best will be a cult-classic and take up a niche in the Playstation 3 library. If you have a game that is good but not very well-known, you think you would want to put it on 360 with the high attach ratio and more systems out there. None of this makes sense unless Sony, in a blunder, thinks this will be a hit and slipped them a few.

CarnageHeart

Indigo bombed on the xbox/ps2 equally in the US, the userbase/attach base has nothing to do with the sales of a risky game like this.

Right, but if you have a game that not many people are going to buy no matter what you do, why would you put it on the platform that the least amount of people will have who also don't buy too many games? It just doesn't make sense unless Sony is slipping them enough money, but then I wonder why Sony thinks this game will be popular apart from the adventure game niche.

Because Sony has a proven track record of supporting such endeavors.

Both MS and Sony have shown that they don't consider commercial failure and creative failure synonymous. Rare racked up several commercial failures before the Stamper brothers decided to retire and Sony continued to support Team Ico even after Ico's miserable sales (Shadow actually sold decently). Along those same lines, recently one of the heads of SCEA blamed Loco Roco's (which was developed by a former member of Team Ico) lackluster North American sales on the fact that SCEA hadn't promoted it properly. Not to say that profits aren't the bottom line for either company (of course they are), but both are willing to fund risky games and not immediately blame/punish the developer if the gamble doesn't pay off.

I wouldn't say MS and Sony are even in this regard, not at all. MS dropping Psychonauts and Oddworld Stranger, as well as well as Peter Moore going into the Epic studio and telling them the chainsaw in Gears has to be removed paints a different picture.

Locoroco was pushed pretty hard, it just didn't work. In japan they had posters up in subways.

Rare, you think they are going to snub a company who they paid 200 million for?

Great news - the more the Quantic Dream team makes, the better. I enjoyed both Omikron and Fahrenheit immensely, even though they weren't alike at all. I don't know what it is about Quantic Dream's games...they have a very unique feel to them, and are really memorable I've found.

It doesn't seem like the exclusive they're referring to in the article will be Heavy Rain or Omikron 2, because it's all a bit mysterious and those games have already been announced, even though their platforms don't seem to be set in stone yet.

When I first read this news my immediate thought was 'Fahrenheit 2'. Just that one annoucement would set me up for E3 this year.