CGI-Quality said:
If Sony wasn't a company known to acquire studios, the claim that this was somehow driven by MS would hold water. But, because this is the type of thing they've been doing since the PS1, it's par for course, especially being Insomniac. If it was another company, particularly one known to work closely with Xbox, you'd hear a different tune from me. Unless we have a laundry sheet of them reacting to them, there's nothing to suggest it has anything to do with them.
| twintail said:
I think this is a bit of a strange take on the situation. Firstly, the entire MO for Sony is to work with a studio before buying them. Saying Sony would not buy Insomniac only to bolster their portfolio is just a complete misreading of how Sony usually acquires studios compared to how MS is doing so now.
Also, there was no way Insomniac was ever in threat of being bought off by MS that Sony would have to defend against losing them. Sony is pretty much the only publisher Insomniac has seen actual long term success with, and don't forget that Sony were the ones who offered a Marvel IP to them ad they chose Spider-man. They were pretty much gifted it due to their working relationship with Sony. There was no way they were going to lose access to SM or Ratchet just to go with MS.
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Indeed.
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Agreed. More likely the studio saw how every game after going full on multiplat ended in disappointment, and they were most likely not doing so hot financially before PS4 Spider-Man, so decided it was time to come home to Sony. That and it guarantees them the Spider-Man license going forward.
