Insomniac: No Ratchet & Clank 360 or Wii 'anytime soon'

Jamegohanssj5 - 39 days 12 hours ago

Lol, well Insomniac even said that they're staying Sony exclusive in a interview aboot a month or two ago.

TGSI

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Bodyboarder_VGamer - 39 days 11 hours ago

Obviously?

Do you actually know that Insomniac is not part of Sony right? They are a private company and if they wanted they could do tittles for other consoles beside the PlayStation...

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blackmagic - 39 days 11 hours ago

Also in the news: Rachet and Clank going to 360 wasn't even a rumour until we wrote this 'article' stating that Sony owned ip won't be going to the 360.
Stay tuned next week to read our main feature: Rumour dispelled, Mario, Zelda and Metroid games not going to the 360 either!

Who wrote this 'article'? lol

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Hoolock - 39 days 11 hours ago

the title says no Mass effect on 360, wii "Anytime Soon". I guarantee this thread would be very different =/

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calis - 39 days 11 hours ago

"Do you actually know that Insomniac is not part of Sony right? They are a private company and if they wanted they could do tittles for other consoles beside the PlayStation..."

And do you actually know that Sony OWNS the property for Ratchet and Clank therefore it will never, EVER be released on a non-Sony console.

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Danja - 39 days 11 hours ago

Well considering that Sony owns all the IPs Insomniac makes ... Should state that these franchises are never gonna be seen anywhere except the PS....

Another failed article ...

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sikbeta - 39 days 11 hours ago

"Do you actually know that Insomniac is not part of Sony right?"

You know Insomniac is recognised as a Second Party Dev, share information and tech with ND and the 2 Dev Teams are like friends and I think Ratchet IP is owned by Sony, High Impact Games made Ratchet and Clank Size Matters for PSP and PS2, is not like only Insomniac make Ratchet games

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darthv72 - 39 days 11 hours ago

Insomniac is like Bungie in that the games they make are given first crack to Sony. To think they haven't tried their hand at something for the ds or wii is asinine. Sure it may never come out but still.

Why would it matter if they did make a game for a competing platform? Chances are it wouldnt be anything of significance that people associate with Insomniac (R&C, Resistance, etc).

Insomniac may consider themselves an independent but I would classify them as a second party. Not owned by sony like a first party studio but still getting all the benefits from them in making games and giving sony first bid on what they make.

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morganfell - 39 days 10 hours ago

Well bodytborder you are another one of those people that fail to comprehend the manner in which IP ownership functions and how it affects the platform availability for titles.

Besides, the article concerns R&C, which will never EVER see the light of day on a MS or Nintendo platform.

What is the next article, no Halo on PS3 anytime soon??

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PrimordialSoupBase - 39 days 8 hours ago

aka Never

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mrnintendo96 - 39 days 8 hours ago

Agreed, now who disagreed.

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badz149 - 39 days 7 hours ago

R&C and Resistance are the properties of Sony and even if Insomniac decides later that they will go multiplat, they'll have to come out with a new IP - not those 2!

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darkride66 - 39 days 4 hours ago

However, 360 owners seem to turn their noses up at these kind of games. Just look at the sales for Banjo: Nuts and Bolts. It got some pretty decent reviews and it was an established franchise and 360 owners couldn't have cared less. I bet Rare's missing the ole Nintendo days.

Don't Microsoft have them on strict Natal duty now? Anyone wanna guess how that's going to turn out for Rare?

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jjohan35 - 39 days 1 hour ago

Honest question: If the developers don't own the IP, who does? The publisher? So is it true that Ratchet & Clank sequels cannot ever be made multiplat? I'm just wondering how did the FF13 end up being multiplat? I'm pretty sure Sony published several of the previous FF games. I don't understand the legality too much. Any explanations would be welcomed.

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calis - 39 days 1 hour ago

"Honest question: If the developers don't own the IP, who does? The publisher? So is it true that Ratchet & Clank sequels cannot ever be made multiplat? I'm just wondering how did the FF13 end up being multiplat? I'm pretty sure Sony published several of the previous FF games. I don't understand the legality too much. Any explanations would be welcomed."

It depends who owns the property (ie. the name, ideas, characters etc)
For example, Sony own's pretty much all its IPs for exclusives (Uncharted, Resistance, WipeOut, R and C etc etc) therefore Sony gets to chose which consoles it goes on and obviously it will stay Sony.

But, Gear of War, while exclusive to Microsoft, is property of Epic Games. Epic own the property, characters etc and can chose to release it on whatever console they want.

As for Final Fantasy, while Sony may have published some of the games, it is own wholly by Square-Enix.

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coolfool - 38 days 23 hours ago

when we see Insomniac develop for a console other than a Playstation.

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SaiyanFury - 38 days 21 hours ago

The Ratchet & Clank license is owned by Sony so it will never see an iteration on someone else's platform unless Sony decides to sell the rights. Insomniac isn't owned by Sony, but in many interviews Insomniac is quite happy to remain Sony exclusive. They've constantly raved about the creative freedoms that Sony gives them with their games. On top of that the R&C franchise is much loved by Sony gamers, including me. It's profitable for Sony to hang onto the license and I seriously doubt it'll be sold to another company for distribution on other platforms other than the PlayStation brand.

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frostypants - 38 days 18 hours ago

This "article" sums up everything that is wrong with N4G. For every thoughtful piece, there are 10 stupid/sensationalistic/poorly written ones. Submissions need to be moderated for idiocy...

The fact that Sony owns this IP is common knowledge in the video game industry.

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militant07 - 39 days 12 hours ago

Insomniac games' Bryan Bernal confirmed this in an interview with PSU saying : " (Sony owns the Ratchet & Clank property) so it's safe to say you won't be seeing our heroes on Wii or Xbox 360 anytime soon."

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PirateThom - 39 days 12 hours ago

I know now, but I couldn't load the page when I typed that, but thank you.

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Saigon - 39 days 12 hours ago

they are a second party dev for sony...anytime sony is shown a new IP before any other publisher means they are a second party dev...if sony rejects the new ip Insomniac is free to shop around for another publisher if they still want to make the game...this is why son so far owns all of their IPs...

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militant07 - 39 days 12 hours ago

they mentioned that in the article...

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militant07 - 39 days 11 hours ago

I wouldn't*

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Silly Mammo - 39 days 11 hours ago

Can't wait for Ratchet & Clank Robot Kart Racer! /sarcasm

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SuperStrokey1123 - 39 days 12 hours ago

Of course they wont, thats not really what they are talking about.

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ultimolu - 39 days 10 hours ago

o-o! I completely forgot about that.

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PirateThom - 39 days 12 hours ago

I don't think Sony held the rights to Spyro or Crash, I thought they were Universal and, when Sony bought Naughty Dog and Insomniac went independent, Universal held the rights as publisher?

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Sevir04 - 39 days 11 hours ago

the first 3 spyro games were owned entirely by Sony. as well as the 5 crash games. Insomniac stayed independent and no longer sought to make spryo and Sony sold the IP and Franchise to Universal, then after crash bash and crash team racing, Sony sold The Crash Ip to universal, since ND was already deep in Jak and Daxter's development for the PS2.

So we will likely see this happen again. Sony will sell the IP, just when Insomniac Cant do anything more, when they feel teh ratchet IP is going stagnant. which i hope is no time soon because those games all rock.

Last of it's kind really.

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ZombieAutopsy - 39 days 11 hours ago

eh. Universal Interactive Studios did help develop the first and thrid spyro games but Sony did publish them so im sure Sony owned the IP.

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jerethdagryphon - 39 days 11 hours ago

sony at any time can ask naughty dog to make a rac game same as they could ask insomniac to make jak both are sony ips and can be used by any company sony owns and since insomniac and nd are owned in part if not outright... its less of an issue

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ZombieAutopsy - 39 days 11 hours ago

Insomniac is an Independent studio, they just choose to work with Sony because of their long standing relationship. Naughty Dog though are owned by Sony since i think 2001. But your first point is right, they could have any dev make any game they own the IP to as long as their is a dev willing to do it.

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jerethdagryphon - 39 days 11 hours ago

zombie, quite corect, after doublechecking i had incognito confused with insomniac, but sony owns the ips and lots more besides, ms buys dlc, sony buy ips

i cant think of very many recent ips owned by ms but i know of 10 by sony

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renegade - 39 days 11 hours ago

Yeah if microsoft and sony kiss them selfs off.

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pixelsword - 39 days 11 hours ago

...what's up with that?

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CryWolf - 39 days 11 hours ago

You wish it was but its not.

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pixelsword - 39 days 11 hours ago

Using wordplay to come to a self-serving conclusion: fanboy-tastic!

;)

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CryWolf - 39 days 10 hours ago

Both of you guys will never see Ratchet & Clank on XBox 360, XBox 720 or XBox 1080 as long Sony Playstation is alive you won't see any of Insomniac or Naughty Dog games anywhere near a Xbox console.

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TheBand1t - 39 days 10 hours ago

:/

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WenisWagon - 39 days 11 hours ago

Kwl! thx 4 beta testing droids!!!!1

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Lt_Skittles - 39 days 10 hours ago

http://www.ratchetandclank....

Scroll down, and look at that SCEA logo,because that means you'll never get them.

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helghan666 - 39 days 12 hours ago

that is never going to happen because 360fixme is weak for this graphics.

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YoungKiller25 - 39 days 11 hours ago

personally i think the franchise would be perfect for the median between hardcore and causal gamers on the Wii
not so much the 360 because it doesnt have that audience

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helghan666 - 39 days 11 hours ago

yep. beware of bots here comes here only for troling...

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2good4u2 - 39 days 11 hours ago

odd my 360 CAN play cartoons. you can keep your squirle and robot traveling through space and time. exciting.

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DK_Kithuni_71 - 39 days 11 hours ago

You don't know what you are missing. Ratchet & Clank are platforming fun galore for all ages. Second to none.

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Aquarius - 39 days 11 hours ago

squirtle?

what are you a child, still playing pokemon?
no wonder you have a flopbox.

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2good4u2 - 39 days 8 hours ago

lol, i meant squirrel. (i'm dutch. my english doesn't always go so smooth)

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stb - 39 days 12 hours ago

insonniac, if you are seeking for some kick in your but out of the sony dev department, shut up and continue creating games, only and ONLY for the playstation family, xboxer can go to hell.

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