Pachter is right. From a financial standpoint they would be much better off going multi platform. Would they be happier as employees and as a company? Maybe, maybe not. But Pachter is looking at it from a financial stand point. Because, THAT'S HIS JOB.

If Insomniac went multiplatform, the title that was built for PS3/360 would not get support from Sony.

Insomniac makes the games. Sony publishes. Sony helps with funding. Insomniac gets limit-less creative freedom.

Pachter needs to realize he's mostly wrong. And needs to leave Insomniac Games alone.

Both Resistance and Resistance 2 ran at 30fps.  Only the Ratchet titles ran at 60fps this gen.

Seems a narrow and overly commercial view - but maybe that's his only angle.

They get a ton of support, they seem to be profitable and it's pretty clear they are a great place to work and have a lot of fun with what they develop.

They also have simplified development environment (although to be fair I doubt it would add that much cost to add 360 development skills and ability).

Not all companies focus on profit - if so then technically there would be no exclusives. For example if Insomniac are nuts not going multi then you'd argue Remedy are with Alan Wake where they're probably missing a fair amount of sales on PS3.

Some prefer focus and strong partnerships and that's fair enough I guess whichever company or console they chose to focus on.

It's coming form Pachter, so it must be...wrong.

WTF?! Why is he criticizing something else other than the Wii?

Uhm. I think it would be better for them if they remained exclusive. Sony is funding and publishing their games so if they decided going multi platform who will fund their games? MS? I don't think so. EA or Activision? Could be but insomniac is not 100% sure about that. Insomniac also have an engine built for the PS3.

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Insomniac have great relationship with Sony. Their partnership come from way way back. Why break it now in making their upcoming games multi? And just like said above they recieve financial backing from Sony. If ain't broke, Don't fix it.

Exactly my thoughts.

The point is, profit should take priority over loyalty when it comes to the health and future of your company. Struggling or not, the future is impossible to predict. Loyalty is different between enterprises, and in business. Sound business decision forces one to make choices based on personal benefit, as most companies do, including Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, and nearly every developer who makes every game you love, ever. There are no personal feelings involved here. To not be loyal is not a betrayal in business, it is simply the nature of business, and expected by all those parties involved.

This leads me to the obvious conclusion, which is, either Incomniac is not making sound business decisions based upon a lack of understanding of basic business model, or they believe that staying exclusive gives their games a higher chance for success, and a cult following, which will help their brand, and maintain its current prestige score, which they believe will gain them more that short term profits. I am much more inclined to believe the latter. However, I disagree with them. I think their games are good enough to stand on their own merits, without the hype exclusivity provides. It seems like the management at Incomnica is a little timid, imo, unless there are factors that we don't posess(which there almost certainly are).

@Sony fans - I HIGHLY doubt the "power of the PS3" comes into play in developers minds when they are making sweeping business decisions. It's nice to mention it in interviews, but the real reason things happen, is and always shall be "the bottom line." Not some romantic notion about insignificant hardware architecture. That is very naive. What people tell reporters is almost never the truth. It's either opinion, justification, or spin.

It is interesting how much pull Pachter is getting.  Apparently he got an "award" for being most accurate in his predictions, and now he is like the industry guru, with people thinking he is all that, and what he says is critical.  He has like hundreds of millions in funds he manages with his company.  People make him out now like he is a person to be trusted.  And they yammer on and on and on here. 

If you want to ignore him, here is a bit of info on how accurate he is with his predictions (right around 25% he is with his predictions, with a number of his right ones being fairly obvious.  He even backtracked away from correct predictions to be wrong):

http://tinyurl.com/Pachter-predictions-accuracy