Quantic Dream is an independent developer, but it has chosen to work exclusively with Sony on its past two titles: Heavy Rain and the upcoming Beyond: Two Souls. Quantic Dream co-CEO Guillaume de Fondaumiere says the reason why they’ve stuck with Sony is the freedom they’ve granted in pursuing the projects they’ve wanted todo instead of pushing them to do Heavy Rain 2.
“This isn’t a partnership where we are forced by a big company into giving immediate results. That’s fantastic for a studio like us,” he said. “Ever since we started our partnership, Sony just said it was going to give us the money to build these games and we said we were going to work as hard as we could and reward it for its trust.”
“We proved with Heavy Rain that we can be profitable by making a game for just one platform. Would we have made more money by going multi-platform Of course, but on the other hand, we wouldn’t be working with Sony as a publisher,” he added. “We’re certainly not going to change partner for the sake of making more money. That’s not the philosophy behind our studio. As long as we can create the games we want to create, we’ll stay with Sony.”
