Oh wow, it's finally happened. Insomniac Games -- the developer behind the Ratchet & Clank series as well as Marvel's Spider-Man -- has long maintained a close relationship with Sony, but the studio has always valued its independence. As such, the thought of Sony snapping the developer up has been a consistent talking point, but actual acquisition always seemed just out of reach.
That's all changed now, however. Sony has announced that it's adding Insomniac Games to its roster of PlayStation Worldwide Studios, meaning that the two companies have come to an agreement. Insomnaic Games joins the likes of Naughty Dog, Sony Santa Monica Studio, and Sucker Punch in making PlayStation exclusive titles.
With Marvel's Spider-Man 2 an inevitability, this is pretty huge news -- and a story that's been in the making for what seems like an age.
[source twitter.com]
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Incredible. Still surprised, but even more excited for future output now.
Great move by Sony. How about a new Ratchet and Clank, Insomniac?
And then Ratchet died.
Much like how many IP from the other developers they acquired have been dropped in favour of new IP, the hope of a new Sunset, Ratchet or Resistance falls.
But, if this is what they need to do to keep the lights on, so be it eh? Congrats.
Just wow
Didn't expected it because it's such a high level studio now. They also make VR games too
Big big news
Absolutely fantastic news........hope they bring Sunset Overdrive with them!
Resistance 4, c'mon boys!!!!
Great news, when you think of Insomniac you think of Sony so it's a natural evolution, i really hope this will allow for a new Ratchet game now though, i am really missing the series, even if not though, Spiderman 2 can't come soon enough, what a game that was !
Omg. Never thought id see this day come. Thats actually a massive acquisition for Sony. Congratulations to all involved
Absolutely mammoth news. And dropped at a hilarious moment, too.
I didn't see that one coming.
Glad Sony went with them because Insomniac make such good games.
PS5 gen is going to have more killer games now!
I'm so glad this dropped during the absolutely awful Gamescom Opening Night Live show before I put a bullet in my skull.
Crikey!
If PS5 launches with SSD streamed, Ray-traced Resistance 5; I might just die! 😂
Sunset Overdrive PS4 port incoming?
Kudos for announcing it via a random Twitter post and not in front of an audience full of Sony fans as part of the E3 hype machine.
Nice talking point for Sony, 1 Insomniac game is the equivalent of 3 or 4 games from those studios MS has been buying of late.
Would really like to see a sequel to Sunset Overdrive, though I'm sure they'll be busy with Spiderman 2.
It's a move that makes total sense and I'm glad it finally happened.
@ShogunRok Is it bad?
I'm watching The Tick and keeping an eye on the football score 😂
@ShogunRok So, no point asking what I've missed then? Went grocery shopping instead. Fam's gotta eat.
fantastic news, Insomniac are a great studio
Nice move by Sony, no doubt about that.
i'm sure they're probably hard at work on spiderman 2.. which isn't of that much interest to me - i've not played spiderman, nothing against insomniac, or how good the gameplay might be, i just find the character immensely annoying.
they do have 2 studios (one in california and one in north carolina, afair), so a new resistance would be nice.. but something new might be just as cool.
This one acquisition > All or C tiers MS acquisitions lmao
@KALofKRYPTON @rjejr - it's worse than that bad.
always wanted to try sunset overdrive... my pc cannot run it, so ps4 remaster is in order, followed by a sequel? can't say i am overly excited nor surprised by this move since all of insomniac's best games were ps exclusive anyways... but still nice to see. now work on bringing bluepoint and kojima to the family.
@ShogunRok @get2sammyb Geoff looked mighty uncomfortable when he read that out off twitter 😂😂
This should have already happened but still excited regardless. Can we PLEASE get Resistance Trilogy remastered so we can see what kind of buzz there is for a new entry PLEASE!! Lol.
@Knuckles-Fajita is much rather ratchet and clank die and they make something new and forward thinking rather than a platformer stuck in the past
@Nyne11Tyme the answer is zero buzz. 3 was great and nobody bought it
@jly1987 oh come on!! I bet if they remaster the trilogy it will be bought. Gotta member that Resistance started when ps3 was behind in sales. With ps4 the far away leader in sales you are tapping a widely uptapped market. I member plent of friends wanting to come over and play Resistance for Co Op but not being able to afford a 600 console
@Nyne11Tyme I really doubt Sony would waste their talents with remastering old games. Instead, they would deliver this task to another studio, as they've been doing with a lot of other games.
Wow - great move from Sony!
Always been a Sony Dev for me, great work getting it done hopefully there'll be more in the near future
Wonderful news, such a long time coming. I was alway worried that Sony would lose them to someone else. Now Sunset Overdrive please.
Sony doesn't play around with acquisition lol.
Also I hope they make disruptor 2 and remake the first one, distuptor 1 is still fun to play today
I guess Remedy and Housemarque are next. Hopefully.
Wow, that trumps all of Microsoft's acquisitions put together
Great now start making an IronMan game already!
so if they did do a sunset overdrive 2 - do they release it on xbox as well? - would be fair play since ms is going to release some games on ps4
An acquisition that makes sense, and a relationship that goes a long way back.
Wow this is big! They’ll compliment Sony’s existing studios nicely as they are of the right high calibre. Always wanted Sony to buy them but never thought they would. Next up Kojima’s studio!
Really hope we get a new ratchet!
@Lovespuds Is this even possible? Hoping so, for sure!
PS5 is gonna have some heavy hitters when it launches! A perfect match. Congrats to both.
@Rephlex
Funny insomniac use to be a microsoft stuido too before going independent then back to sony
I knead it.haha 💓💕💖💖💞❤💗😍.so happy now.resistance here we come.word up son
@vhsodre and thats fine. But dont let that franchise die on ps3
now buy remedy studio.and give a box the fatality.finish him Sony.haha.word up son
Big congrats to Insomniac.
I'm not currently as excited as I might once have been. I haven't picked up Spider-Man yet, but the last Insomniac game I bought was R&C A Crack in Time, and to be honest it just bored me. I loved the PS2 R&C games, but with ACiT I just felt it was outdated, not as fun as the previous games, and... just that they needed to move on to something else.
The absolute STATE of a first party funded Ratchet & Clank on a PS5. Will literally look better than a pixar film.
Amazing news.
EXCELLENT NEWS!!! I hope we see some more R&C games to(yeah I know we have had millions already but I never get bored of them)
I don't mind whether it's Ratchet and Clank or some new IP, but I hope they do another family-friendly platformer alongside their Spiderman games. R&C was a very well-made game.
Great! I just hope they let resistance rest for good and work on new projects and a Spiderman sequel.
Wow! That's great news and completely unexpected! Always thought they would remain independent forever...
Go get em’ Tiger!
Yeahhhhh Boiii
Can we please get A resistance 3 remaster, pleaseeee!!! That's the only resistance I haven't played.. This is greeat news though, great counter to MS acquisitions as far as competition goes as well.. Now can we buy bluepoint as well for that resistance 3 remaster? Lol
Not saying anything that hasn't been said- They were essentially a Sony studio in all but name.
Money well spent. It is all leading to one amazing PS5 launch.
Finally. Insomniac should have agreed to this the first time. Their games sell best on PS and I am glad M$ didn't buy them. Insomniac is better than all of the devs combined that M$ purchased. People talking about Sony putting games on other platforms lol. This move says otherwise. Can't wait for Spider-Man 2, hopefully Ratchet & Clank 2 and whatever else they make.
@Knuckles-Fajita LOL. Somebody actually trying to make this a negative. If Ratchet dies its because Insomniac killed it. Sony devs get to make what they want. They didn't want to make another Resistance as they stated.
@Acquiescence Best way to do it. LOL.
@leucocyte Spider-Man annoying? Blasphemy. You should actuallu play the game, which is great. Its not like the character from the recent cartoons or movies. Spider-Man is one of the greatest characters wver created and you must not know much about him to make that statement. I am not a fan of the movie versions so if that is what you are going off its a mistake. Ironically Nathan Drake has some Spider-Man in him with his wittiness and wise cracks.
@jly1987 Well R&C PS4 sold over 4 million and all of us who played it enjoyed it.
And now Insomniac and Naughty Dog are finally reunited.
Why though? Wouldn't this be like Nintendo buying Game Freak or Intelligence Systems? If it's already a loyal second party company why do this?
I can only think there were some people at Insomniac who wanted to go 3rd party instead and release games on more systems - personally I think that would be the better outcome for consumers...
Sony bought insomniac to acquire the valuable "Fuse" franchise.
@Scoobijohn Nope Insomniac wanted to own that IP when they were searching for a publisher. They have said they own it in the past. So if a sequel does happen it will be under sony.
@Heavyarms55 I'd guess the capital the studio would gain from the sale is better than the thought of trying to go third party on other consoles. During the time that they were producing non-playstation ips they either weren't that great (fuse) or didn't sell well (Sunset Overdrive). I'm not sure about their oculus work, but if they want to continue that they can always go the psvr route.
@Heavyarms55
The best outcome for dedicated gamers is that console gaming (and of course I mean PlayStation haha) is alive and kicking.
Insomniac was strange in that it developed games for multiple platforms. But each individual game tended to remain exclusive to a single platform. This is good news for me because it means I’ll probably now be able to play the games that where originally intended for oculus.
@KnightWolf they were never owned by Microsoft. In fact but for a few games they’ve pretty much always made games primarily for Sony.
@pepsilover2008 yeah i know i was just wondering if sony would do the decent thing and release any potential sequel on the xbox since fans of the series are likely to be on that system
to be honest though i'm not sure it sold well enough to justify a sequel - but sony does tend to let its studios do what they want so who knows
Not sure if we, the gamers, will benefit from this or not, but great move by Sony, securing more exclusives.
Sony wants that Spider-man money.
@WanderingBullet Sony wants something it's already theirs... Ok.
@get2sammyb Biggest news of Gamescom and it came in a Tweet. lol
@Heavyarms55 Why risk losing them to someone else though?
@Sinton they produced more than 30 games but only 2 are multiplataform, Fuse and Song of the Deep, and most of them were released on Playstation. Nothing is gonna change.
@vhsodre Well, except for the fact that they have someone above them who can tell then what they should do. While Sony’s track record clearly is better than most, many great independant development studios have become worse after getting new ownership (Rare, BioWare, Dice etc.).
in other news Sony closes down insomniac games lol
Can we finally get Sunset Overdrive on PS4 then?
That and the Gears series are the only xb1 games that interested me, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I spend that much money on a system just to play a few games.
Not really a big deal if you ask me there's only one big game they ever made for anyone other than Sony, so this doesn't really change anything.
Perhaps Sony got wind of Microsoft sniffing around the studio and decided to nip that in the bud?
@GodGamer 13 million bought Spider-Man. No need to go back in time. It’s like asking naughty dog to do jak and daxter instead of last of us
Amazing news, looking forward to Insomniac's bright future being a first party Sony studio .
@PS_Nation Thought you'd like to know about this update!
@AdamNovice For the same reasons I've already said, it's better for the consumer to have more options. I don't want Nintendo or Microsoft buying companies in this way either.
@thefirst i just wish MS would buy EA and activision
Insomniac Games has two big studios and work in a 2 years rhythm
2014 Sunset Overdrive
2016 Ratchet & Clank
2018 Marvel's Spider-Man
So I expect something in 2020.
Maybe as PS5 launch title.
Maybe a Ratchet & Clank.
Maybe I'm wrong.
@Sinton you changed the subject. We're talking about Sony here, not EA or Microsoft.
What a misleading original headline. It said Sony now owns sunset overdrive... except they don't. Sunset was a 2nd party title which means Microsoft contracted a studio to create an ip and game but Microsoft owns the game and ip.
Sony only owns games insomniac themselves owned and really there aren't as many as one would think. Sony already owned most of them. Oculus owns the ones they made for the rift because that was a 2nd party agreement as well. Sony already owned Spiderman because they own that license...so what is the point of this?
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