We've seen and heard little of Insomniac's Sunset Overdrive since the Xbox One exclusive's announcement at E3, which is rather disappointing for me personally - a world in which little is said about a game that looks like Crackdown's spiritual successor isn't a world I want to inhabit. Accordingly, I've just been on a jaunt round the developer's forum, and there are some asides from community web developer Tim Salvitti that you may be interested in.
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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Sony owns the IP, doesn't it? Anybody know for how long they've got the rights to it?
Insomniac is still trolling Sony I see.
Honestly who really cares. Insomniac has not been the same for quite some time. The resistance games were great but, its all been downhill since R3.
For those wondering Salvitti is trying to validate his never say never quote regarding Sunset Overdrive on PS4, and Ratchet and Clank on Xbox, but for the time being Insomniac has no current planes for either. Also, in 2009 Insomniac's Bryan Bernal stated that the R and C franchise property is owned by Sony.
http://www.psu.com/a008321/...
The day Insomniac makes a game as good as FTOD is the day I'll care what they do with any of their franchises. They used to be the cream of the crop. Now they are barely the cream in a fanboys pants.