Insomniac prepping for some big news tomorrow.

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Lightning08 said:

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ssj12 said:

bbsin said:

Sharky54 said:
Doesn't sony like own them?

 

No. They probably have a generation long contract (like Sucker Punch), but Insomiac is indepdent. They're pretty much second party.

However, Sony owns the rights to the Resistance and Ratchet&Clank I.Ps.

 

No contracts or anything. Insomniac has developed for Sony's consoles for ages and stated they will stay on Sony's consoles.

 

There has to be contracts involved. Otherwise, Sony wouldn't be funding all their games, nor would they have control of the I.P.

You don't really think Ted Price would launch the Nocturnal initiative out of good will right?

Dude, you misuderstand. It's the games that are under contract as they are Sony IP's being developed by Insomniac. Sony have the final say on everything that happens with them. It is the same scenario with Ready at Dawn with GOW: CoO and Level 5 with White Knight Chronicles/Dark Cloud etc... the games are under contract/funding not the company.

 

Dude, I think you're the one that misunderstands.

Simply put. You don't make contracts with games, you make contracts with the studio that makes the games.

Remeber when Bioware first annoucned Mass Effect? The game was exclusive because Bioware had an agreement with Microsoft to make 3 games for them. Microsoft didn't have control of the company outside of whatever was written on the contract. This is likely the same case for Insomiac games. The studio itself is free to do whatever they want outside of whatever obligations were made in the confines of the agreement. Thus, the meaning of a second party (kinda) developer or maybe better put as "an independant dev that is under contract with a 1st party publisher".