Insomniac went with MS because they wanted to retain the full rights to the IP. That's why I think that would be the best way for Sony to approach the deal. 

JEMC said: Can you imagine if Nintendo fund it like they did with Bayonetta?

Was here to say that. Makes you wonder if the uproar would be similar?

What do sales have to do with a developer being at their best?

A developer should only ever be rated by the quality of their games. The publishers can fuss about sales.

KrspaceT said: JEMC said: Can you imagine if Nintendo fund it like they did with Bayonetta? Was here to say that. Makes you wonder if the uproar would be similar?

I doubt it. With Bayonetta, we had both Sony and MSoft followers complaining about it. With Sunset Overdrive, we would "only" have the Xbox fans.

While i agree with you with the bolded, in Insomniac case their best games has been exclusive to something while their shittiest has been Multiplats.

Maybe coincidence, but it should be looked closer.

True, but unlike Bayonetta Sunset was an exclusive. That would add to the saltiness

They've only had a couple multiplatform games, one of which was subject to EA's oversight. The only other  multiplat I recall was actually pretty solid, and was a $15 budget game. They've made far more allegedly-bad games when exclusive than not - the Ratchet fanbase HATES FFA, A4O, sometimes QfB, and Deadlocked even gets trash for being different sometimes. Plus there was that GamingBrit video on the PS4 game that did the usual "it's been a year, this game is no longer good" revision that changed public opinion a decent bit. 

The phrasing I'd use if I were you is that their games are miles better when they have their own oversight - Fuse was morphed into a generic, throwaway title due to EA, while the rest of their games have been at the very worst "decent" when they were their own boss, and just tossed the funding by Sony/MS/even internally or through a micropublisher like GameStop.

You're right.

But over here there aren't many Xbox fans, so we should be safe.

Crazy part is that you all assume they have not pitched a sequel to other publishers including Sony. I have Sunset and its a awesome game but it just did not sell well. You can blame MS but I do not believe you can blame them for lack of marketing because they marketed the game a lot. Even had it bundle with the Xbox console. The real problem with Sunset is that it was a new property and with a lot of new property it just did not have what it takes to cause gamers to purchase the game.

Maybe if Insomniac update the game for the X1X release and MS put some more marketing behind it it may get a new lease on life and sell more copies thus giving MS the feeling a sequel could do well.

Gabe dude has $5.5 billion in the bank, he could fund all the dream games in the industry and still be a billionaire.

Half Life 3, Portal 3, Scalebound, Sunset Overdrive 2, Timesplitters 4, DMC5, Shenmue 3 with proper budget etc...