Insomniac going multiplaatform

There seems to be some valid information going around about Insomniac going to develop for other systems besides the PS3. If this does happen that would kind of suck on Sony's end since Insomniac was the first company to really show off what the PS3 could do. If they do the whole multiplatfrom thing does that mean they we can no longer expect them to make a an awsome game every year? Other than Sucker Punch and Naughty Dog, there is no one else that knows how to do great things on Sony platforms other than Insomniac.

I want to see this "Valid" information....GrandJury

As far as I know its just a rumor (strong rumor) on IGN. Although I don't like this news, I don't personally really care because I don't care for resistance or ratchet and clank games. Both are good but not the best in the genres. KZ2 and other shooters are better then Resistance IMO and Ratchet from the little I have played is good but something is amiss for me.

Not going to happen I would chalk this one up as another wild rumor. That someone either took out of context or decided that by creating this rumor they would get more hits on their site.

Not going to happen I would chalk this one up as another wild rumor. That someone either took out of context or decided that by creating this rumor they would get more hits on their site.

2beers_in_hand

It's merely a rumour for now. Sony would probably encourage them not to as well.

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Not going to happen I would chalk this one up as another wild rumor. That someone either took out of context or decided that by creating this rumor they would get more hits on their site.

West-Coast-G

There seems to be some valid information going around about Insomniac going to develop for other systems besides the PS3. If this does happen that would kind of suck on Sony's end since Insomniac was the first company to really show off what the PS3 could do. If they do the whole multiplatfrom thing does that mean they we can no longer expect them to make a an awsome game every year? Other than Sucker Punch and Naughty Dog, there is no one else that knows how to do great things on Sony platforms other than Insomniac.

gamenerd15

Resistance and Ratchet obviously will since they are owned by sony. The PSP Ratchet and Resistance games are not done by insomniac.

I am almost certain that on a podcast somewhere right before tools of destruction came out, there was one of the main people from insomniac saying that they will stick with the PS3. Of course this is like 2 and half years ago.

Resistance 2 did not sell as well as the firstbecause they took out the regular story mode co-op and weapon wheel. There was a lot of hate for that game even though it was still awesome. Ratchet and Clank A crack in time did not sell off the charts because it's a family title and the core gameplay has not changed since the first game added that there has been a ratchet and clank game every year on a sony platform since it's incarnation. Ratchet is still awesome, but a lot of other games stole the spotlight. If they would have came out with Ratchet sooner then it might have fared better. Either way I hope they stay primarly exclusive to sony, not because I am a fanboy but because they are the one of the very few companies that can get the very best out of Sony consoles.

Resistance 1 was the best of the best on PS3 for like 8 months. Tools of Destruction showed what next generation graphics could really do. Resistance 2 showed that you could still have quite a lengthy campaign and cool multiplayer while boosting the player count for games.

As far as run n gun first person shooters go, Resistance has been one of the best. When the next playstation does come out, I hope they will bring another awesome game to show off what the system can do like they did in previous generations.

[QUOTE="gamenerd15"]

There seems to be some valid information going around about Insomniac going to develop for other systems besides the PS3. If this does happen that would kind of suck on Sony's end since Insomniac was the first company to really show off what the PS3 could do. If they do the whole multiplatfrom thing does that mean they we can no longer expect them to make a an awsome game every year? Other than Sucker Punch and Naughty Dog, there is no one else that knows how to do great things on Sony platforms other than Insomniac.

TheEldestGod

Guerilla games only has Killzone 2 to back itself up on. Don't get me wrong the game was awesome but Insomniac has Spyro, Ratchet, and Resistance under their belts. I am not much of a spyro fan myself but It was a fun game and did use the hardware of the PS1 a great bit. Ratchet and Clank seemed like an odd team but proved to be awsome on both PS2 and 3. Resistance gave a new birth to run n gun shooters. That genre of FPS games kind of died out a little after mid 90's

Santa Monica has pushed systems quite a bit with God of War, but are they only good at making hack n slash games or does their talent run deeper? From the time they spend on a particular game, I would say they probably are actually very good.

All I am saying is that if Sony loses exclusive deals or whatever with Insomniac that would be something huge against them.

I don't get it. This is not new. I've heard this rumor since last year. It would make sense to go multiplatform because honestly, the sales aren't too great for the Insomniac games.ExoticAnimal

How exactly have sales been poor? Ok so none of their games have sold 8 million copies. Their games never had immediate success. The last couple of ratchet games on PS2 sold worse than tools of destruction I believe. I know for certain that deadlocked did not sell amazingly well. Each Ratchet game has at least made it to over a million copies sold. The resistance series has sold millions. The second one did not sell as good as the first game, but it still did pretty well. I highly doubt they are in the poor house by any means.

[QUOTE="ExoticAnimal"]I don't get it. This is not new. I've heard this rumor since last year. It would make sense to go multiplatform because honestly, the sales aren't too great for the Insomniac games.gamenerd15

How exactly have sales been poor? Ok so none of their games have sold 8 million copies. Their games never had immediate success. The last couple of ratchet games on PS2 sold worse than tools of destruction I believe. I know for certain that deadlocked did not sell amazingly well. Each Ratchet game has at least made it to over a million copies sold. The resistance series has sold millions. The second one did not sell as good as the first game, but it still did pretty well. I highly doubt they are in the poor house by any means.

Where are we getting the numbers for these sales? Vgchartz is not entirely accurate all the time. For instance Motorstorm 2 has sold over a million but according to VGchartz it has yet to reach that goal. You also forget that they stop tracking games after a certain amount of time. How is about 2 million half of 3.5?

No contest that the sequals to the frachises sold worse than the ones that came before them, but it is hardly poor sales. If you want to see poor sales look how much sega rally revo sold on PS3. As I have already stated, Ratchet Deadlocked did not sell all that well, but they still continued to make the games anyway. By your logic, Insomniac should have been too poor to make Resistance. I am pretty sure Sony also helped fund the games as well. Not every game has to sell 8 billion copies to be profitable. Obviously if it does sell a lot, the better the company does.

Either way I hope cool games are still made by Insomniac.

That would be sad, but as far as I know Sony still have a lot of studios pumping out titles:

- Evolution studios (Motorstorm)
- Guerilla games (Shellshock, Killzone)
- Newly Media Molecule (LBP)
- SCE studio liverpool (Wipeout and many others)
- Polyphony Digital (GT series)
- SCE Japan (Echochrome, Siren, Patapon, WKC (with level 5) Demon's Souls (with from software))
- Team Ico (Ico, Shadow of the colossus)
- Naughty Dog (Crash, Jak and Uncharted)
- Sony Bend (Syphon Filter)
- SCE Santa Monica (Kinetica, God of war)
- Zipper interactive (SOCOM, MAG)
- Incognito Entertainment (Twisted metal, warhawk, compagny pretty much dead though)

And probably some others i'm missing out.
We just have to hope they can come out with quality products

Other than Sucker Punch and Naughty Dog, there is no one else that knows how to do great things on Sony platforms other than Insomniac.

gamenerd15

You must of never heard of Kojima Productions , Santa Monica, Capcom, and Square Enix. Great joke though.

[QUOTE="gamenerd15"]

Other than Sucker Punch and Naughty Dog, there is no one else that knows how to do great things on Sony platforms other than Insomniac.

WR_Platinum

You must of never heard of Kojima Productions , Santa Monica, Capcom, and Square Enix. Great joke though.

An Insomniac dev debunked this on Neogaf (again) so we'll see. If there was any truth to it, the Resistance/R & C teams would continue making exclusive games and Insomniac's new studio would be the one to develop multiplatform games. I doubt the entirety of Insomniac would go multiplat.

Sony have tried to acquire Insomniac in the past but they remained insistant on staying independant, the freedom of being able to go multiplatform is probably a reason for that. Personally, I think this could very possibly be true. Obviously, Resistance and Ratchet are owned by Sony but I can see Insomniac making a new IP for PS3 and 360, while continuing with some PS3 exclusives as well. I don't see anything wrong with this, they are a business after all and widening their audience and sales is a good thing. I have no doubts in their games either, they are a quality developer and they would never compromise quality.

However, they do definitely have a lot of perks when exclusively with Sony such as development help from other first party studious and assistance with resources and funding. It could go either way.

Sony have tried to acquire Insomniac in the past but they remained insistant on staying independant, the freedom of being able to go multiplatform is probably a reason for that. Personally, I think this could very possibly be true. Obviously, Resistance and Ratchet are owned by Sony but I can see Insomniac making a new IP for PS3 and 360, while continuing with some PS3 exclusives as well. I don't see anything wrong with this, they are a business after all and widening their audience and sales is a good thing. I have no doubts in their games either, they are a quality developer and they would never compromise quality.

However, they do definitely have a lot of perks when exclusively with Sony such as development help from other first party studious and assistance with resources and funding. It could go either way.

Asim90

meh who cares, rumor or not....

neither resistance nor ratchet sells hardware(save for resistance 1 in Nov. 2006), and neither series is all that great, though ratchet has some cool platforming.

There seems to be some valid information going around about Insomniac going to develop for other systems besides the PS3. If this does happen that would kind of suck on Sony's end since Insomniac was the first company to really show off what the PS3 could do. If they do the whole multiplatfrom thing does that mean they we can no longer expect them to make a an awsome game every year? Other than Sucker Punch and Naughty Dog, there is no one else that knows how to do great things on Sony platforms other than Insomniac.

gamenerd15

Let's just look at it for what it is at the moment...NOT OFFICIAL!!! Even if it is true the PS3 has cuaght-up to the Wii and 360 in installed base...so in reality,it's a lost but no big deal.

[QUOTE="Asim90"]

Sony have tried to acquire Insomniac in the past but they remained insistant on staying independant, the freedom of being able to go multiplatform is probably a reason for that. Personally, I think this could very possibly be true. Obviously, Resistance and Ratchet are owned by Sony but I can see Insomniac making a new IP for PS3 and 360, while continuing with some PS3 exclusives as well. I don't see anything wrong with this, they are a business after all and widening their audience and sales is a good thing. I have no doubts in their games either, they are a quality developer and they would never compromise quality.

However, they do definitely have a lot of perks when exclusively with Sony such as development help from other first party studious and assistance with resources and funding. It could go either way.

ProjectTrinity

Me too!!! It's all about the business.

I haven't heard of anything

[QUOTE="gamenerd15"]

Other than Sucker Punch and Naughty Dog, there is no one else that knows how to do great things on Sony platforms other than Insomniac.

WR_Platinum

You must of never heard of Kojima Productions , Santa Monica, Capcom, and Square Enix. Great joke though.

Square Enix this generation has been a joke and so has capcom. DMC4, Dark Void, were pretty lackluster. Square's best work was in the SNES to PS1 Era. Final Fantasy X and Kingdom Hearts 1 were great but Kingom Hearts to failed to keep things going. Square wanted FF13 to be the next FF7 and failed to do so. Yeah the game is still cool, but it turned out not being as great as everyone hoped it would. The best things capcom has done this generation were Zack and Wiki, and the 2 Megaman games. They release multiple versions of the same game, which screws people over so I don't know why you are stating that Capcom is great. They just put out RE 5 again and when the move comes out, there will be another version of the game. They came out with Street Fighter 4 only to come out with a better version of it a year later. That is lame no matter what spin you try to put on it.

if this rumor turn out to be true i'm never going to buy their stuff again

if this rumor turn out to be true i'm never going to buy their stuff again

super-cheeseman

I fail to see the logic in that.

[QUOTE="GrandJury"]I want to see this "Valid" information....JoKeR_421

[QUOTE="2beers_in_hand"]

Not going to happen I would chalk this one up as another wild rumor. That someone either took out of context or decided that by creating this rumor they would get more hits on their site.

West-Coast-G

You've apparently never seen their fake trailers and other random pranks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBCzkz3gHb8

LINK! http://playstationlifestyle.net/2010/03/12/insomniac-games-could-be-going-multiplatform/West-Coast-G

if this rumor turn out to be true i'm never going to buy their stuff again

super-cheeseman