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LurkerJ on 13 February 2020
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LudicrousSpeed said:
LurkerJ said:
An obscene amount of money for a studio that has not made an original system-seller-kind-of-IP since forever. Spider-man isn't theirs, once Marvel chooses to give it to another developer, you'll be left with forgotten IPs.


Dude was really banned for this? wow

Thanks...

Maybe expanding my point and putting in context by making a comprehensive list of Insomniac IPs would help convince those who reported me?

  • Spyro and Ratchet are almost two decades old at this point, one of them isn't in SONY's hands anymore.
  • Ratchet games definitely have their fan-base but I really doubt anyone here considers them proper system-sellers, definitely not on the level of Naughty Dogs' games.
  • Resistance, I liked the first one, everything else sucked, and the franchise is on a definitive hiatus for a reason.
  • Fuse. An objectively terrible experience. 
  • Sunset Overdrive. VGC puts its total sales a bit over 1m, not a system seller. 
  • Song of the Deep, few know it exists.
  • Spiderman, not an original IP & not SONY's, we're talking about the game here, not the movie! It's Disney's. 

Once you take out spider-man off the list, you're really left with is the R&C studio that made a bunch of other forgotten IPs, not to mention, R&C always belonged to PS platforms anyway. They could've bought Atlus for this kind of money, a studio that would've added much needed diversity to their line-up, and a hardcore fanbase on top of it. Or perhaps throw more cash at ND to expand their teams because they obviously have talents that consistently deliver. 

I fail how to see my opinion is "salty" or a "bait", I think it's a bad deal, just like I think SONY struck gold with the deal that secured FF7r for PS platforms for one year. I have fiercely & recently defended that deal from those who downplayed it on this very forum. @twintail you're the only one who replied to my post with a reasonable answer, if SONY is fishing for VR-experience studios, which are few and far between, I guess this deal makes sense to get PSVR to the next level.