Journey Becomes The Fastest Selling PSN Game Ever!

The unique and amazing experience which thatgamecompany crafted has indeed captured the hearts, minds….and wallets of gamers everywhere, as Journey has broken PSN sales records in both America and Europe.

Launching just two week ago, Journey has quickly become the most talked about PS3 exclusive game of recent memory.

Writing on the Official Playstation Blog, Jenova Chen (Co-Founder of thatgamecompany) said –

After we released Flower in 2009, players sent hundreds of emails about their experience with the game. They varied from a 9-year-old girl to a 65-year-old man, from a marine serving duty overseas, to a soldier returning from Iraq. There were even stories about a mother’s memory of her two children in the wheat fields, a surreal butterfly fantasy from someone’s grandmother who passed away, and a young man who spoke about his brother who has Down syndrome. Those kinds of letters are what drive us at TGC to keep working.

And now, the reaction to Journey has been even more overwhelming. We have received more letters from fans in the two weeks since Journey’s launch than we did for Flower over the past three years!

A hugely impressive feat indeed, and definitely shows the bright future for thatgamecompany. Referencing their first title ‘Cloud‘, Jenova Chen goes onto say –

We owe a lot to our fans. In fact, the idea of forming the thatgamecompany team to create games with Sony Santa Monica originated from several dozen emails that players sent in after playing our first student game, Cloud, from our time at USC. It was the players who told us how moving the game was and how it was important that we keep making these types of games so that more people in the world will realize what video games can be, and can grow to love games through our work. To me, that was a life-changing moment. I knew making games was my life calling.

Thanks, again, for all your support! We’ll see you online!

Anyone who has played Journey will be well aware of the beautiful soundtrack that accompanies your trip through the game. Composed by Austin Wintory, it will soon be available for purchase through both iTunes and the PS Store on April 11th. Jenova also mentions that there will be a limited CD release in the near future, but no other details are known at this point. Either way, you’d be best to snap it up as soon as more is known, as I can’t see it sitting on the digital shelves for long.

Journey is currently available via the PSN Store….what are you waiting for?!?

Source – The Official Playstation Blog