Heavy Rain delayed until 2010? Comments by Oli Welsh

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

^^
better delayed than buggy as hell

kinky made me lol. Spilt coffee ftw! ;)

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

Heavy rain delayed?

*Looks out of the window*

Could've fooled me.

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

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

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.

They have a hab it of showing stuff way earlier than the others, so no surprise if so.

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.

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

We've seen more FF13 than Heavy Rain...

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.

All games are one long, branching QTE.

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

Most of the delayed PS3 games have been disappointing in the end, and KZ2 was only a "good" game in the end. I guess trying to get decent performance out of the PS3 is very very time consuming :)

" God of War 3,"

I've got a feeling that'll be 2010 based on previous ones.

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

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

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.

@J1GSAW : Well said, sir :)

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'.

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.

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.

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

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

Which game are you referring to?

Just curious ;)

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.

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

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

LOL

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

Killzone 2 is average!

etc etc.

@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.

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

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

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.

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...

@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.

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

@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.

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

"Polish" and "fiscal years".

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

@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 :)

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

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gc-200...

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

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclus...

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?

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

Alan Wake.

"these devs are full of shit. The announcement trailer here:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gc-200...

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

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclus...

And your point is???

COR BLIMEY!

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.

@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.

"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.

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.

@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.

"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