It's real.

An Era member posted where it came from:

Screenshot of the entire presentation

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Yeah, everything you described is the big problem with modern gaming unfortunately. Less creative risk taking and more "safe" which I can't blame Sony for. Like you said, Marvel games print money. 

At least I know Insomniac will have much higher quality with their games than other franchises that are popular and print money like CoD. If R&C can take a loss, Sony can at least greenlight a Sunset Overdrive 2 with a smaller budget. 

Seeing Spider-Man 2 have a budget over $300 million is insane! A Sunset Overdrive 2 wouldn't need to have anything that large. Doesn't matter. We know it's not in the cards. 

EDIT: Apparently Insomniac only made $567 from Sunset Overdrive? That's unfortunate for such a great game, but even that is better than an $8 million loss. 

Games get cancelled all the time. Insomniac also has multiple single player games that may have gotten shelved.

Former PlayStation Boss Says They 'Cancel So Many Games'

> While he might not be running the ship anymore, he’s still involved with video game development at Sony and its studios. And as part of the process, Yoshida says a lot of game projects get canned before seeing the light of day.

>“We do a prototype, we evaluate, we decide whether to spend more time and resources, or we just stop,” Yoshida said. “We cancel so many games.”

That is the reality of the industry. 

Jim Ryan did not give 6 month notice and get a party thrown in his honor because he did a terrible job. PlayStation is arguably in one of their strongest positions ever, despite some of the strongest opposition and largest setbacks ever in their history.

Happens in business all the time, when I sold my company a few years back they signed our at the time president to a 1 year contract, but when he didn't like the direction the company was going they told him we'll keep paying you for the length of your contract but you can go home.  You are still listed as the president of the company but you no longer really work here.

Sure if you ignore all the evidence to the contrary.

They literally posted pictures of Jim Ryan signing new deals with NCSoft two weeks ago, but sure he's not really doing his job.  

For those wondering, I will only be writing articles on the leaked sales data. I will not be posting information on Wolverine in any article.

Interesting, on twitter was circling a print of the discord channel where the leak started and confirmed that the slide of Insomniac analyzing Sony risk and concern was fake and that the watermarks were poorly done.

I think you are mixing the money paid for Insomniac for the royalties etc with the money made by the title for the publisher.

On the table where Sunset Overdrive had a 567 of IG share, there isn't any negative number (at most there are 0), the losses aren't absorbed on the developer but on publisher (Playstation now).

Yeah I definitely got that mixed up I don't think there has been any info on the losses, if any, Sunset Overdrive incurred, but only MS would have that info. 

It's no wonder why Sony and Insomniac are so set on Marvel properties. 

Rif Apart is the only game I finished in that series. Liked it a lot. Sad.


I've been playing Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. This is the Jet Set Radio Future sequel I have wanted for 20 years. I know it would not run on a Dreamcast but it feels like the lost DC sequel. OST is solid but no candle to JSRF. God I love even the menus have that 2000s look. Absolute GOTY. It take it's inspiration but improves mechanics and movement plus wider spaces. Exactly what I wanted.