Well, after BEYOND, they have one exclusive game left in their contract
Well, after BEYOND, they have one exclusive game left in their contract
I believe Sony expected that Heavy Rain would not make them any money - in fact, they would lose money. In the end Heavy Rain ended up doing much better than they expected and Sony made a profit.
While the timing isn't as optimal as Heavy Rain, Beyond is far away from being fucked.
I don't see it bombing still. You can't trust chartz, but I wouldn't be too surprised if pre-order numbers are higher than Heavy Rain at this point. If it reviews well it will get enough good word of mouth to sell decently. Also Ellen Page and better marketing this time around. Heavy Rain sold 200k without a single ad in the US in the first month. Also you have to consider that a lot of female non-gamers enjoy these kind of games, so the audience is a bit different from GTA and Battlefield as well.
Play the demo then
She doesn't get raped, even if you fail the QTEs. It's not even implied. Also Insomnia, because she had a "tough time" (later revealed to come from her time as a war journalist in Iraq).
Apparently you missed the latest batch of previews then. The gameplay is perfectly fine once you play the game from the beginning and are introduced to the mechanics properly. I expect Beyond is going to review similarly to Heavy Rain or better. So pretty good.
It's not. He is probably still talking about E3. All the impressions afterwards (gamescom, PAX and 3 hour preview code) were almost completely positive.
No, she is in the bathroom, not on her bed.
$27M isn't high at all. And CoD:Blops is nowhere near 40 million with marketing included. The marketing alone is 40 million or more probably. The Last of Us, God of War 3, Dead Space 3, Crysis 3 and most other AAA games in recent memory had a higher budget than $27M.
True, but the dev costs are still higher than $27M for many AAA games in recent memory. And since this is Sony the total costs including marketing probably won't go above $40M. So this is pretty reasonable for a new ambitious IP.
People aren't suddenly going to stop buying games for their PS3. The amount of people buying a PS4 at launch is minimal compared to the PS3 install base. The hype for Heavy Rain was about the same as Beyond, maybe even lower. It got stronger once the demo and the pretty good reviews came out for it. I expect the same for Beyond. Actual pre-order numbers are probably even higher than Heavy Rain, which did most of its sales post launch. Word of mouth is essential for a title like this. It will do fine, even without NeoGAF hype.
No, but Quantic Dream created a new engine for Beyond too. It's not even remotely as advanced as the CryEngine 3 and not multi-platform either, that doesn't mean it was cheap. They have about 60 people working in R&D alone. Also I wouldn't be too surprised if the budget includes the making of the Kara demo.
Not for Sony though. They suck at marketing (maybe on purpose lol).
Are you referring to the dark sorcerer demo? If not I wanna see links
Again, the same pretty much happened with Heavy Rain. It only got noticed, because everyone talked about it after the release.
