From Kotaku:
Outdoing early guesstimates on its retail performance, Sony’s PS3 thriller Heavy Rain has managed to sell over a million copies worldwide since launching in February.
The game’s creator, David Cage, says pre-release estimates had the game selling only 200-300,000 copies. Which for a major first-party release with a big marketing campaign would have been a bit of a disaster. Luckily, then, it’s managed to move over 1,000,000 units, with Cage figuring another 500,000 will be sold by the end of the year.
Love it or hate it, Heavy Rain is definitely not your typical video game and a step in the “games as art” direction, so selling over 1M copies is quite the achievement. Or should I say trophy?