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HollyGamer on 19 August 2019

Wow Insomniac games worth 5 studios Microsoft purchase recently

PS5 will be another winner and next will be Kojima production , believe it 



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think-man on 19 August 2019
Xxain said:
think-man said:

In nearly the last ten years they've developed more 3rd party games then games just for Sony. 

They have had a relationship with SONY that was so close, that all SONY would have to do is just ask them for exclusive stuff. If they wanted to make something exclusive by choice, they would chose PS. So, what is gained from this? 

Now they can focus all their time on PS exclusives, and Sony also acquire Sunset Overdrive and the VR titles they have been working on. 



 

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goopy20 on 19 August 2019
Xxain said:
This is not even slightly Interesting. Why buy a studio that by choice, would only develop for your consoles anways?

To back them up with insane budgets and developer support from Sony's pool of 1st party developers so they can make even better games exclusively for their console?



Shiken on 19 August 2019
Xxain said:
This is not even slightly Interesting. Why buy a studio that by choice, would only develop for your consoles anways?

Gonna pretend Sunset Overdrive never happened?



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V-r0cK on 19 August 2019

Now give me new Resistance game! ...and keep it campaign coop!!



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Cerebralbore101 on 19 August 2019

TIL Spider-Man is in Poke'mon, BotW, Animal Crossing, Mario, sales territory.

Hopefully Sony just lets Insomniac do its own thing. I think they bought them, because they didn't want to lose them. Sunset Overdrive could have been a PS4 game. Now it probably will be.



Qwark on 19 August 2019

Awesome, Insomniac only really works, when they work together with Sony. All their other adventure MS have either failed critically or commercialy. Sony spend their Spider-Man profit pretty well. After loading Quantic Dream and Housemarque Sony was kind a done with second party devs I guess. Next up on the list is probably Remedy. Whilst we can doubt this is good for the industry. Many smaller devs may not survive a new gen otherwise. 



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Zkuq on 19 August 2019

About 20 years late... which does, though, tell how fitting this is. I'm a bit sad because this might mean Insomniac wasn't doing too fell financially so this might have been half-forced, but at the same time, Sony is definitely the right owner for Insomniac considering the history of the two. As someone whose main platform is PC, I'm somewhat disappointed, but like I said, this is quite fitting.



WoodenPints on 19 August 2019
Bandorr said:
Okay, now Sony need to work with Remedy and Platinum.
If PS5 has SSO/Alan wake 2/quantum break 2(not actually sure who owns that IP) and Scalebound - or really any dragon riding based RPG - I will laugh.

Quantum Break is completely Microsoft's IP, Alan Wake was always Remedy's IP just MS had publishing rights much like Sunset Overdrive.

shikamaru317 said:
Shiken said:

Gonna pretend Sunset Overdrive never happened?

Actually, Sony was Insomniac's first choice to publish Sunset, but Sony turned it down. That is why Insomniac shopped the idea around to 3rd party publishers and MS, and MS ultimately chose to greenlight it.

If I remember correctly the problem was that Sony wanted ownership of the IP and Insomniac wanted to keep it themselves and then they struck a deal with MS so they could keep the IP and MS had publishing rights.



Barozi on 19 August 2019

Sony hopes to get a bigger cut of the Spider-Man money, yet the choice to purchase now was pretty bad. Should've done that after the disaster that was Fuse.