resistance and ratchet are owned by sony so if they leave non of their IPs will go with them and sony will hire new peeps to make these games so sony wouldnt lose anything.

Just like bungie, rare and eat sleep and play once they leave they wont mean shit and the New IPs wont be nearly as good. but heres hoping banjo and whatever new game bungie is making are half as good as the ones they made before

@ soriku, ND is owned by Sony, no chance there unless they sell of the franchise, which they wont, cause they have expressed an interest in making a new one

There is no chance the Insomniac will move multiplatform, Sony would be willing to buy them out if they had to, or to pay for the exclusivity, Insomniac do not have to move platform to get high sales. Ratchet has sold decently, and should move to 1m eventually. Resistance is over 2.3m, which is extremely impressive on the PS3. Resistance 2 should sell even more. Insomniac will stay PS3 exclusive (until PS4)

 Not too mention, Sony owns all of Insomniac's IPs, and Naughty Dog and Insomniac are like brothers.

 Except the article hints that they are interested and they have no intention of being bought.

It's true they don't have to move to multiplatform to get more sales but multiplatform still means more sales which means more money which in the end is what it is all about. 

Yes, but they'd lose the support of Sony. Would they have been able to come to grips with the ps3 so fast, thus pumping out a new game a year, if it weren't for the fact that they are practically first party?

Multiplatform may increase sales of individual titles, but in the end I don't know if it would be worth it.  They're sticking with Sony for a reason, after all.

 Read the article: they are not first party.

And there are plenty of developers that are not first party or even practically first party that still get plenty of love from Sony and who can even work just fine with the PS3. 

I said "practically" first party.  Insomniac even said that they basically think of themselves as 1st party, even though they are an independent studio.

And I didn't realize that Sony supported all 2nd parties so well.  Insomniac always seemed like the adopted son that fit right in with the rest of the fam, lol. They just seemed like they had a bit more clout than other Sony 2nd parties.  To me, at least.

I think a game like Resistance got popular because is was exclusive to the ps3, but it's a solid franchise now, with lots of prospects going forward if they were able to release Resistance 2 on both the ps3 and 360 I'm positive it would double the sales of the game, by keeping this title ps3 exclusive they are losing out on 2 million in sales in my opinion, as it would come out this december on the 360 it would hit the shooter heavy system during a fps dry spell. the game is almost a perfect cross between halo 3 and COD4 and it includes all the touches that 360 owners love, a similiar bungie.net styled site, co-op, tons of online options. So what I'm saying is I think think they should go multiplatform.

Is this any different than Bungie?

He doesn't hint that at all. He clearly says they don't have the bandwidth to make multi platform games and in Insomniac's case multi platform might not mean more money as they will lose majority of Sony's money and support and they are not a publisher. Which means they will have to find one to publish their games multi platform. I'm sure Ubisoft, EA or Activision would step up but that would also cut into Insomniac profit who would then have to stand on their own rather than have Sony support pillar to rest on.

Also, Insomniac don't own the Ratchet or Insominac IP's so they would have to create something totally new as Sony would never allow an IP they own to go on a MS or Nintendo game system.