Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Worldwide Studios, and his cheeks were on IGN’s podcast recently, where he talked about a variety of topics, with both Insomniac’s Xbox One exclusive title and the future of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale getting detailed here. - PSLS
Does it still hold up in 2024?
We've still got a few months to go, but October marks the 10-year anniversary of this Insomniac Games title, with the developer having since moved on to work on the Marvel's Spider-Man games for PlayStation. It was assumed that Sunset Overdrive might make its way to other platforms eventually, but that hasn't happened as of yet.
So beloved that it sold so well that there's a sequel and Insomniac never had the opportunity to go back to Sony to develop games exclusively for Sony.
Not beloved enough for Xbox owners to buy it apparently, Xbox was the worst possible audience for that game.
Insomniac: “We went with Microsoft because we want to own the IP so it’s ours”
Microsoft: *owns publishing rights preventing the studio to re-release the original game, make a remaster, remake, any DLC, massive expansions and multiple sequels on other platforms*
The logic is just…I never got it
Owning the IP was Insomniacs main defence when they announced they were making a game exclusively for MS and yet they’ve ended up “owning” an IP they can’t do anything with.
If they went with Sony like normal you might have seen a sequel by now.
Sadly this may never get the proper fps update it deserves on XB (or even PS) but I now play it on steam and it definitely feels better at 60fps than it did at 30. Its a fast paced game... you need that 60fps in this one.
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Shuhei Yoshida chats with FINAL FANTASY XVI Producer Naoki Yoshida.
I wouldn't mind a sequel on PS4.
I can barely find online matches and when i do it takes more then 5 minutes, and i get disconnected. Please fix it .
Well hopefully it will be a sequel which will have a better health system (I hate using Super's it gets boring a repetitive, it's more like an Arcade "mode") and better characters that we actually want.
** he’d “like to see us come back to the idea,” but “maybe not the same mechanic. ***
Key sentence
*** but “maybe not the same mechanic ***
That gives me hope especialy when he has two Wii U's...maybe Smash Bros will rub off on him more
insomniac with XB1........ no fanboy bs but this makes me little sad, i like console exclusives, they give it a special feeling
I hope they do make PSABR 2,id like to see them ditch the supers as they were kind of awkward and Id like to see a full cast of actual all start with more then 40 characters
I'd also like to see the combat improved and not rely on supers.