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Forums - Microsoft - Insomniac employee talks Sunset Overdrive exclusivity; says "Ratchet could end up on Xbox one day" but changes his mind.

Honestly since Resistance 3 it seems Insomniac lost their touch. At least that it what it seems to me.

So I really hope SO is a good game so that they can continue to make good games.



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Ratchet leaving Sony wouldnt be as bad as when we lost Spyro and Crash but Sony have to hold on to there characters from now on.



As some others have pointed out, he was simply saying that anything is possible even if it's highly unlikely. Sony would have to sell the franchise to Insomniac, another third-party, or Microsoft for that to even be possible. Ratchet & Clank is arguably their most popular platformer IP. Even more so than Jak & Daxter I would say. They're not going to let it go anywhere. Regardless, Insomniac has not been putting out good titles lately. The amount of titles they are producing in a given span is no excuse for the lack of quality. Fuse and the last two R&C games were bargain bin titles. Close to garbage bin if you ask me. If they cannot produce quality games and put them out in abundance at the same time then they need to scale it all back. They are also not very good with multiplayer. They have never been able to make it work well with Ratchet & Clank, Fuse sucked, and Resistance was certainly not known for having a compelling online experience. I have cautious optimism for Into the Nexus considering I've heard they're going "back to their roots" with the game, but I would really warn any future Xbox One owner to keep their expectations of Sunset Overdrive low.



CGI-Quality said:
Conegamer said:
I love me some Ratchet and Clank. So I don't care about which system it's on, so long as the series continues.

Good, then plan on buying PlayStations.

Don't worry, I plan on!



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

I haven't played an Insomniac title in a while but these guys have always been clever and innovative. I wish they'd bring some of their creativity to the Wii U, actually.



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kowenicki said:
Kresnik said:
kowenicki said:
Insomniac have a lot to prove. Pretty poor during the last gen if you ask me.

Hopefully this is a fresh start.


Their output shot through the roof in the seventh generation, though.

From 3 games on the PS1; to 4 games on the PS2; to 6 "full" PS3 games, 2 "half" PS3 games, and a PS360 multi-plat.

Sure, this generation went on a lot longer, but still.  Maybe the fact that they're putting a larger amount out is the reason for the quality drop, but I still maintain that Tools of Destruction & A Crack in Time are as good as anything they put out in the sixth gen.

Good point.

i'd like to second that R&C ToD and CiT are amazeballz and follow-up with sunset overdrive at least looks more promising than fuse.



think-man said:
Ratchet leaving Sony wouldnt be as bad as when we lost Spyro and Crash but Sony have to hold on to there characters from now on.

I 'm getting sick to death of this nonsense , that Sony is some how responsible for letting Crash and Spyro go , ND was offered funding through mark cerny who was in charge of Universal Interactive games at the time , and he had a large amount of money to seed the new enterprise and Nd where renting studio space at universal's lot , so mark offered to fund them in return for the IP , which became Crash , so Crash became Universals IP from day one , Sony  then came in to the picture as publisher , Cerny did the same  contract with Insomniac.



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Max King of the Wild said:
iamdeath said:
DJEVOLVE said:
iamdeath said:
bananaking21 said:
Seece said:
I get what he meant, I guess he's confident it's a true XBO exclusive.

im willing to bet that it is 100% a xbox one exclusive. i think people who are hoping for this on PS4 will be VERY dissapointed


I dont think too many care TBH.

No you don't care, unless it was on PS4, then you would be praising it. LOL

No, I really wouldn't, I have never been a big insomniac fan, please show where I have praised their games? I felt teh same about socoms series.

 

Unlike you, I can be objective, i don't like all sony's franchises. But I bet you go out of your way to praise anything on xbox regardless if its out yet or good bad right? Just because you are like that, don;t pretend I am.

 

Insomniac is hardly a dev that makes games you want to buy a console for.


The extent of djevolves posts are, "youre juust a sony fan. Lol" or "ofcourse sony is winning because sony fans. Lol" or "sony fans lol" id seriously just ignore him.

Yeah I am seeing that now.



think-man said:
Ratchet leaving Sony wouldnt be as bad as when we lost Spyro and Crash but Sony have to hold on to there characters from now on.

When we?

 



I bet that Microsoft will promote Sunset Overdrive even less than Sony promoted Resistance 3. When (not if) the game flops on X-One, Insomniac will put it on PS4.