Insomniac Explains Why Sunset Overdrive Is Exclusive to Xbox One

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fireburn95 said:

Anybody who actually believes they chose xbox one over anything else because of 'the cloud' and to retain the IP are, well stupid.

As breedinbull says, it's money. Microsoft chose to fund the game and thats why it is exclusive. Money..Money....MONEY!

If they wanted to retain the IP and keep their indie status, they could've done what almost every other indie dev has done and self fund/self publish or find funding elsewhere, but microsoft paid, the end.

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To be fair, it is always money... and that for me isnt a problem (and why should it be a problem to *Anyone*. I mean Fuse sold nothing and failed, you can only live so paying staff off your own money before you need to ensure they have work.  So it was probably a decision between fire lots of people or take up a project. In this case they get to keep the ip, which is preferable, so why not.

As a sony user I have no negative feeling to insomniac at all, I fully understand why they did it. I dont think they are a particularly strong comany as it stands, but I'm glad they are still able to make games and employ people. Which should be applauded.