I never really liked them at all. So to me they are not even near the best. (but I guess that has nothing to do with understanding the PS3....more has to do with the execution.)

lol i would agree that they must know it well but being the best is complete different.

That being said though they are the only devs that seem capable enough to produce multiple ps3 games a year of amazing quality. I would love to see what they can do if given a decent amount of time... say 2 years?

Resistance 3 cant come soon enough because i got a feeling it will be a huge leap over the last game being as they have had so much more time to create it

Misleading title ?

They're certainly in the top five

It's a year old.

Insomniac has more games, so they would need to get to know the system a bit better than with just a few games.

I admit that might be the fanboy in me. I don't even have a PS3 yet, but Insomniac is one of my top game developers (which means their games are on my PS3 wish list), so I know they make their games awesome. Nothing against Naughty Dog though. Their only game I played was Crash Team Racing, but any developer that manages to make a successful clone of Mario Kart (as we've seen too many fall short) deserves my respect.

Me: Which way to the Ice cream palour?

Title of this thread: It's 3rd door on the left...

*2mins later*

Me: Dude, the Ice Cream Palour wasn't where you said it was.

Title of this thread: Sorry, I misled you.

You did yourself a major disservice by not playing Crash 1-3. <_<

There number 2 as far as I am concered.

So far my favorite developer this gen. I put in so much game time in Resistance FOM and just recently platinum R&C:ACIT.

Pretty much what the others said; 4 Ratchet games(counting QFB) and 3 Resistance games in 5 years definitely means they understand and in my opinion are the best on ps3. With R3 in development for sometime now im curious how good it's going to look (assuming they are pushing graphics). So far, although i can't wait for it, R&C A4O looks really bad; i saw the PAX walkthrough and environments don't look good as the previous Future titles but then again maybe it was unpolished and they got 1 more year till it drops.

Plus just throwing it out there, they are the only developer to release 4 first party titles in 4 straight years to sell 2m plus. (Come on we can't deny it lifetime for R&C ACIT :D)