Heavy Rain delayed until 2010?

By Oli Welsh Published 26 May, 2009

Sony says it hasn't confirmed a date.

An exclusive video preview of Sony and Quantic Dream's interactive drama Heavy Rain on the Gametrailers TV show suggests that the game won't be out until next year.

Presenter Geoff Keighley said at the end of the show (over 19 minutes in) that the game "is going to be coming out next year exclusively for the PlayStation 3". He was interviewing the game's US managing producer at the time.

Sony had previously indicated that the game was due for release in 2009. When the game was unveiled at last year's Leipzig Games Convention, then Sony Europe president David Reeves said it would be "the great game for PlayStation 3 next year".

When contacted for comment, Sony said that it had not yet confirmed a release date for Heavy Rain.

Elsewhere in the Gametrailers TV show, footage can be seen of a new scene in Heavy Rain, quite different to the FBI investigation scene we previewed and saw video of last week.

The scene shows reporter Madison Paige, familiar from the Leipzig "Taxidermist" demo, walking through a crowd of dancers in a nightclub called Blue Lagoon. She dances on a podium, and there's one shot that appears to show her dancing in her underwear for a man sitting in shadows.

Apparently the scene will be on show at E3 next week. We'll bring you more from the show floor.

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  • kinky_mong #1 3 years ago

    This is all part of Sony's 10 year plan for the PS3, delay all the games.

  • JahB #2 3 years ago

    ^^
    better delayed than buggy as hell

  • ZuluHero #3 3 years ago

    kinky made me lol. Spilt coffee ftw! ;)

    On saying that though, the PS3 is looking looking more and more like a purchase in 2010.

  • BiscuitBase #4 3 years ago

    They probably realised they needed to add some gameplay in there somewhere

  • wattoo #5 3 years ago

    If Fahrenheit is anything to go by, they probably haven't realised that yet.

  • penhalion #6 3 years ago

    So I take it someone other than the developers tried to play it then and probably said "What the frak it's one long quicktime.....you may want to put some game into that!"

    Seriously though. I'd be suprised if this ever saw the light of day in it's current form.

  • Twin_snakes #7 3 years ago

    you lot do know they've only been showing the action scenes in the trailers and thar the investigation/puzzle stuff is the majority of the game, so its not going to be one long QTE.

  • Vistrix #8 3 years ago

    I thought it was always a 2010 release, they havent showed much of it.

    We've seen more FF13 than Heavy Rain...
    Edited by 1 at 26/05/09 @ 10:36

  • chubster2010 #9 3 years ago

    re. 'This is all part of Sony's 10 year plan for the PS3, delay all the games.'

    If the games end up being great, then I say delay away!

    e.g. KZ2 was a long, long, long time coming, but was well worth the wait.

    With Uncharted 2 hitting this year ( a game that should offer a lengthy single player and strong multilayer experience along with (possibly) MAG and God of War 3, I don't think it would be to big an issue if Heavy Rain is delayed.

  • robg #10 3 years ago

    All games are one long, branching QTE.

  • Quint2020 #11 3 years ago

    How can you delay something that never had a date to begin with?

  • nbnz #12 3 years ago

    When Sony said 2009 they meant fiscal 2009 which is up till end March 2010. So "next year" and "2009" are not mutually exclusive.

  • DavidBoring #13 3 years ago

    people who hate the game complain about it being delayed - welcome to the internet

  • menage #14 3 years ago

    After seeing some footage I'm really not that interested anymore anyway. Mixing a game where the game will continue on after you die with QTE's seems like a recipe for disaster, panic reflexing and luck instead of choice and decision making. Maybe this will give them time to pull it together.

  • Beano #15 3 years ago

    @J1GSAW : Well said, sir :)

  • Spekingur #16 3 years ago

    I foresee a delay on all the interesting PS3 things... as it has almost always been since the PS3 launch.

    Also, I would like to point out that most gamers normally don't think in fiscal years. That's for the financial guys, not the gamers. So when execs, PR guys and developers talk about "next year" or "this year" and then later on bring up the excuse of "we meant the fiscal years of course" shows us that these guys have no idea how gamers think. This goes for all 'sides'.

  • JahB #17 3 years ago

    1st sensible response, although others are probaby just microjerks lookin to bait a Sony game as theres nothing out on 360 this year

    you'll be proven wrong in 6 days.

  • o_ci2007 #18 3 years ago

    delaystation 3. No surprises here. I have been waiting for two years now for good games for my psp and guess what, you guessed it I am still waiting. Sony has the best hardware on the market but the software is killing all the potential the hardware has. The processor on the psp slim & lite is twice as powerful as that on the DSi, but there are no games that you can justify all the power super graphics. Come on Sony, game developers or someone please good games for ps3 and psp now.

  • Beano #19 3 years ago

    Yes, no good games on PSP either... NONE.... gee...

  • Beano #20 3 years ago

    "you'll be proven wrong in 6 days. "

    Which game are you referring to?

    Just curious ;)

  • Negotiator #21 3 years ago

    I gotta say this game is looking worse and worse, it started off looking great, but as time goes by and they port it from a high end PC to the low end PS3 the game looks like crap.

  • Spekingur #22 3 years ago

    Beano, I guess he is referring to E3 which starts in June.

    I disagree that there are no good PSP games. Personal preference perhaps.

  • Vistrix #23 3 years ago

    LOL

    Delaystation 3! PS3 still has no games! PSP has no games atall!

    Killzone 2 is average!

    etc etc.

  • toa_boa #24 3 years ago

    @o_ci2007 and Beano

    Come on guys - waited two years for great PSP games? Not that I'm inferring that the PSP has been swaped in great releases back-to-back over the last few years, but some good stuff's come out since 2007:

    for example: Loco roco 2, resistance retribution, patapon (1&2), star ocean remakes, god of war, Crisis core, Jeanne D'arc, Disgaea, Syphon Filter: Logans shadow, Silent Hill: Origins, Renegade squadron, Sega Rally, Midnight Club: LA remix

    That said, 2008 was absolutely sh*te for Sonys handheld.

  • des #25 3 years ago

    They decided that the game is going to be one big QTE...just press play...lol

  • Vanmunt #26 3 years ago

    I for one cannot await for Alan Wake... oh, sorry I thought this was a gimp 360 game we are talking about being delayed.

  • makeamazing #27 3 years ago

    Not too fussed about HR being delayed, kinda thought it wouldnt be this year... as long as I get Uncharted 2 this year I am happy.

    IMHO..Sony Edge MS in exclusives last year and is currently leading this year.. so delaystation or not, its better than vapourware :D

    Now MS are holding out for E3 by all accounts, so it will be interesting to see what and how much, but if its a limited number of games and then all "Lets beat the Wii" crap titles, then it wont be good. No offence but a posh webcam and some improvements to the Avatars doesnt make me excited. But I suspect they have been quiet for quite a time so they must have some major games which they havent mentioned.

    Sony at the moment seem to have a good number of games for this year, and a couple so far for next, so I wonder if they are about to run out of steam towards end of next year (alittle like MS has so far this year)... or have they got some hidden games. All interesting times, cant wait for E3.

  • nickfernando #28 3 years ago

    I agree with all the points made about fiscal years so 2010 is fair enough. This kind of reminds me of bladerunner for the PC which was great in my opinion, don't know why but I can see some similarity. Here's hoping it'll turn out really well. Besides, you PS3 guys and gals are getting a lot of great stuff this year, I'm still wandering what's coming out this year in terms of exclusives for 360 besides Forza 3 and Halo: ODST! I'm hoping for some good news (on GAMES) from Microsoft at E3...

  • o_ci2007 #29 3 years ago

    @toa_boa

    have you played Sega Rally and loco roco 2 on Psp, they are terrible really terrible. Midnight Club LA and Resistance Retributiion is what I am playing at the moment and they probably are the best I have ever played. The reason why Microsoft sell millions of games is they build momentum, overhype their games and release them while people are still interested, Sony build momentum and hype then delay by a couple of years when people are no longer interested, bang they release. Gears of war 2 alone sold almost as much as 3 of PS3's big exclusives i.e. Reistance 2, LBP and Killzone 2 put together. We can ague all day about this and that but the sales figures are not looking good for Sony and delaying exclusives is not helping their cause.

  • farlander #30 3 years ago

    It could just be fiscal 2009, which, if I'm not mistaken, ends in March of 2010...

  • El-Dev #31 3 years ago

    @J1GSAW,

    Yeah the 360 posters on Eurogamer have done a good job at glossing over the whole 360 line up for 2009 by posting tripe about anything to do with Sony. I suppose they could get on with playing games but most of them are probably waiting for their refurbished console to be delivered from MS.

  • des #32 3 years ago

    Polished?..lol
    That is the excuse now?...hahaha

  • ronuds #33 3 years ago

    "Polish" and "fiscal years".

    You guys are digging at the bottom of the barrel these days.

  • man.the.king #34 3 years ago

    @DavidBoring

    "people who hate the game complain about it being delayed - welcome to the internet"

    Correction: People who hate the game because it is on the other platform only complain about it being delayed - welcome to the internet :)
    Edited by 2 at 26/05/09 @ 17:25

  • Ryze #35 3 years ago

    These devs are full of shit. The announcement trailer here:

    [link url=http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gc-2008-hea vy-rain/38635?type=flv
    ]http://ww w.gametrailers.com/video/gc-200...[/link]

    Is supposedly 'actual gameplay footage'. Then it becomes this crap:

    [link url=http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive -gameplay-heavy-rain/49550
    ]http://ww w.gametrailers.com/video/exclus...[/link]

    Now, how am I supposed to expect this NOT to happen to God of War III as well, once they shoehorn it into the available RAM?

  • Rodchenko #36 3 years ago

    You guys are digging at the bottom of the barrel these days.

    Alan Wake.

  • makeamazing #37 3 years ago

    The Actual gameplay footage and new footage is the same, i dont know why your getting upset about it.

    From videos it already shows that you can move your character around like a normal game, investigate and look at things, but when the heat of the action gets going then its controller buttons. Video 1 is no different from video 2, as you can see the same concept.

  • GreyBeard #38 3 years ago

    @Ryze

    The first bit of footage was from an actual playable build, I'm pretty sure theres an article describing how it played on this site.

    Seriously, you can't expect every bit of the game to have an identical level of detail irrespective of scope! Polygon budgets and all that.

  • ronuds #39 3 years ago

    "Alan Wake."

    What about it? Sucks that's been delayed and delayed too. I'm not going to paint a rosy picture of something that is clearly dandelions and other assorted weeds.

  • napalm68 #40 3 years ago

    I so feel like this game is overhyped and is going to be disappointing to people. I wish the news and chatter would just stop on it until we saw some actual previews.

  • makeamazing #41 3 years ago

    @Ronuds, I think the suggestion was that when Sony has a late game, comments are that they are crap... and its all negative from the MS fanboys... but when MS have a late game... no one says anything. E.G Alan Wake...Usual way it goes on this site.

  • davisorle #42 3 years ago

    "kinky_mong
    26-May-09 10:06:48 This is all part of Sony's 10 year plan for the PS3, delay all the games. "

    lmao dude XD. nuf said ^^( its actually sad but true.. they wwill end up sying they made a point by it when the console was worthless of its money for quiet a while now.. oO )

    "Quint2020
    26-May-09 10:45:49 How can you delay something that never had a date to begin with? "

    Read again the article Quin... When was announced FIRST time was last year for THIS year. so if THIS year goes up to NEXT year then its a delay. Period. simple fact :p

    One more time :" This is all part of Sony's 10 year plan for the PS3, delay all the games. "

    lolololol ( sorry but its funny as hell ^^ the game itself looks tempting so far tho. guess another year or so to figure out more about it )

    EDIT: Indeed.. wtf ever happened to Alan Wake oO ffs I remember in the main trailer was giving a specific year as release. Dont remember which year was on it though :S
    Edited by 1 at 27/05/09 @ 00:13

  • bahron2000 #43 2 months ago

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