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Sony Interactive Entertainment has acquired Insomniac Games
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Insomniac is a big developer with several studios that are working on several games at the same time. I'm sure with Sony's full support they will be able to do both, making more Spider-Man games and work on other games.
Between Ratchet and Spider-Man they couldn't pass up on the studio being free agents any longer. They trust bovoidh nobody else with that IP it seems.
While I'm looking forward to trying Control, Remedy hasn't proved that they could make a fun game in awhile. Remedy needs a team that can do this. I think their games are beautiful artistically and technically, but gameplay wise it's been some time since I've seen a Remedy game that actually looks fun. But I hope the rumors about Remedy developing a PS exclusive are true, because I'm curious what they could come up with with Sony. If the rumor is true and that game ends up being successful, then I guess we'll see?
Dude...... Seriously? Those are nothing ips that will probably never get sequels. And Sunset Overdrive was my game of the year in 2014. I love the game but it sold terribly as did all of these games. The ips have no value. That's what I meant by 'no ips'
(I will buy a sunset overdrive 2 day 1 though if it did happen)
That's more on EA than Insomniac, I remember Overstrike looking really ace and then this disaster happened.
No, insomniac does. That's why they made the game on Xbox. Sony demanded the IP.
I saw this pop up in the next gen rumor thread for PS5, next gen Xbox and thought it was a joke post.
Guess it's not. Wow.
Edit. Beaten.
I would love a Sunset Overdrive PS4 port. The one game I always wanted to try, but my PC couldn't run it.
this feels like the most natural acquisition in the world. Really hope we get a new ratchet game next gen (and not a quark spin off)
What I hope this means is more cross talk between insomniac and naughty dog. That used to be a big thing back in the PS2 days and from what I understand it pretty much stopped happening. Now they're finally in bed with the same publisher, I can totally see that collaboration in tech and design spark up again.
The reason SO didn't come to ps was Sony wanted to own the ip. Insomniac said no. MS was cool publishing the game without owning the ip. Insomniac owned the ip.
The big surprise is that it took them so long to close the deal, I can see Sony was on panic mode after having MS buy studios left and right, heck Imagine the offer IG got from both sides.
Not really. Sony holds the trump card with Spider-man and Marvel.
They finally got their big hit and they got the money. Super happy for them, this is great news
Given Insomniac was the on the upswing post Spud-man 2, their acquisition could not have been 'inexpensive'. Furthermore, I am surprised that Insomniac did not bargain to keep their IPs to themselves as part of negotiation now that they had the leverage of aforementioned title's success.
I can't imagine MS buying inxile, obsidian and the we happy few Devs got anyone panicking. Lol.
Well Sony can expand Insomniac Games and give them another office to increase output
they refused sony to own the IP
then sony bought them to own the ip
Makes a lot of sense with their long history working together. Congrats to the Insomniacs.
They can finally make some PSVR games. Maybe with an Oculus partnership to port their recent games over.
They can finally make some PSVR games. Maybe with an Oculus partnership to port their recent games over.
Still kind of surreal that the devs behind Fuse and Sunset Overdrive are going to be a Sony first party studio. What a weird niche get for Sony. Maybe they'll catch up to Microsoft now that they're adding weird indie studios to their roster.
Yeah, never really saw this coming any time soon given how many times Insomniac has delayed over the years, though it'd probably been a while since the last time they'd discussed it, they've been wanting to pick them up for a while too thanks to how well they've clearly worked together for so long, so it's good that it's finally official. Should have happened a while ago really, but at least it's finally done.
This makes me super happy and sad at the same time.
Does this mean Sunset Overdrive will get a PS4 release or even a potential sequel?
edit: I wonder if Sony bought them because Xbox tried to acquire Insomniac and Insomniac wanted to give Sony the first bid/option to buy them.
Does this mean Sunset Overdrive will get a PS4 release or even a potential sequel?
edit: I wonder if Sony bought them because Xbox tried to acquire Insomniac and Insomniac wanted to give Sony the first bid/option to buy them.
IP is owned by Insomniac. It was part of the deal they had with MS to publish the first game. Since they went to other studios and it was one of the things they wanted (owning the IP) that couldn't be agreed upon.
Seems Sony REALLY wanted Sunset Overdrive.
Tbh people saying we'll never see a SO sequel now were hardly in much chance of it happening if they'd stayed indie anyways. So it makes no difference there. I mean if anything the chance of getting one may have just gone up now but I wouldn't hold your breath.
Completely unsurprising, should have happened years ago.
Not sure where the shock is exactly; especially after Spiderman.
Not sure where the shock is exactly; especially after Spiderman.
Sony also owns the original developer of Sly, Sucker Punch. On top of that, they already had another team develop a pretty faithful fourth entry. I do not see Insomniac as first, or even second choice for that.
Yeah but nobody enjoyed the movie they are going to make Spiderman games from now on
I'm not really interested myself. I rather they make a new Resistance
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