Yep, Heavy Rain sold very well here in the US so keep doing what you do David and we'll keep buying :)

When you make a niche game, you're going to have a harder time selling to an audience of people who specifically seem to enjoy shooters for the most part.

I for one bought both Heavy Rain and Indigo Prophecy, and I enjoyed Heavy Rain (haven't finished Indigo yet), so you have at least one person in America who enjoys your games.

One thing to keep in mind is to make sure your presentation, graphics, audio, story, and controls are spot on. Since the gameplay isn't as thrilling as full on action games, you have to make sure you're above an beyond those kind of games in different categories. Heavy Rain was close, but there were a few missteps (audio and controls being the biggest). The controls were fine, with the exception of walking. Pressing R2 to walk was a stupid idea.

"why the only exclusives that sell well on xbox are gears / halo ??"

...because with Gears and Halo you can wear the T-shirt and boxer shorts while you play the game on the TV that's right next to the Mega Blocks figures and vinyl dolls from Toys R US.

so only gears and halo sells over a million you say. as they say in sport " lets check the video tape shall we"

Kinect Adventures!- over 10m
Forza Motorsport 3- almost 5m
Fable II- 4m
Left 4 Dead 2- over 3m
Fable III- over 3m
Left 4 Dead- 3m
Mass Effect- over 2m
Dead Rising- 2m
PGR4 - Project Gotham Racing 4- 2m
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction- 2m
Crackdown- 2m
Viva Pinata - 1.5m
Alan Wake- 1m

looks like there are plenty of 360 exclusives beside halo and gears sell a million and more even alan wake. but since people like to bring up alan wake when it comes to sales. how did haze and lair do sales wise

ps. note that i didn't add halo or gears in my list to prove a point since they are the only games no 360 that breaks the million sold mark

@Vega75
i'm sorry did you just said "Kinect Adventures" ??
i talked about
xbox real game like alan wake
and you bring kinect game for kids ??

so you edit your comment
i talked about xbox exclusives
why you bring
ME/Fable 3/left 4 dead/splinter cell
they are on pc so this sales are from both

Edit 2:
thats prove you never played Lbp
it's not for kids only it's for every one
you make your own world you do what ever you want
and thats what made this game incredible

and yeah haze and lair did floped
but there is much more on ps3 look at my list and look at your's
and tell me which list is better
but oon xbox the only exclusives that worth it are gears/halo/froza
at least those are the only games i liked in that console

@droid,

The same can be said the other way around. Coming from the midwest and moving to the coast isn't exactly a nice change of pace either.

No one coast is entitled to be considered more American than the other. If anything I would argue that those in the heartland or fly over country are far more American than what you see out on the coasts.

Or is that what the t.v. tells you?

Not to insult you, but I said "the US I know" and most likely what the world knows too through TV.

That said, traveling through mid west is like traveling through these "homogenous" populated countries/state with all the ignorance that comes with it due to lack of diversity and takes me back to living in Europe.

That has been my personal experience at least.