Insominiac biting the feeding hand?

[Machiavellian]

DonFerrari said:

jlmurph2 said:

DonFerrari said:

iceboy151 said:

badgenome said:

Since Microsoft is feeding them now, no, they aren't.

I can understand why they're so keen on owning their IPs now. It has to suck that everything they worked on for the past decade plus belongs to Sony. That said, Insomniac aren't what they used to be and the footage of Sunset Overdrive is really disappointing to me.

Really? I feel like all their past games are garbage. This is the only game of theirs that's interesting.

I like R&C and I'm waiting to see what they will do for R&C in PS4, will they pay insominiac, will make in house, will give to a different partner.

I read that Insomniac now wants to just focus on the IPs that they own.

Quite possible, let's see if it's the end of milking R&C or what Sony do next... but I still don't see much difference in owning the IP if you can just release in one place. Is kinda like you work for a company and all the work you do there belongs to them *even your inventions and projects that you developed alone or were fruit of your work there even if indirect*, then you quit and start working for yourself and sign consulting contracts were all the output of the consulting belongs to you but just can be used for the person who contracted you.

The reason to own the IP is because contracts do not last forever.  Also any royalty gained from the IP, the developer get paid for it.  They can also sell stuff based on the IP and not have to share with the publisher.  There are many reasons to own your own IP and the best one is that Sony nor MS can just take that IP and give it to another developer.  IS probably have the same agreement with MS like Respawn/EA.  The first game is exclusive but anything after that is free game.  They could stay exclusive or go multiplat but if their game is a success they will have options.