Sunset Overdrive wasn’t always the over-the-top action game it once was, Game Director Drew Murray told IGN -- in its earliest form, in fact, the Xbox One exclusive was a more realistic survival game like DayZ.
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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Gamingbolt writes: "Insomniac Games has enjoyed commercial success on a level it had never seen before with its Marvel’s Spider-Man games, but not all of its titles in the last decade or so have seen eye-watering sales. In fact, specifically where Sunset Overdrive is concerned, the money the studio has made off it is quite negligible, to say the least."
Not gonna lie... looking at the IG roadmap I was fully hoping to see SSOD2 and Resistance reboot on there. The first SSOD was fun. It definitely needed the benefits of a 60fps mode and I was expecting there to be some sort of patch or FPS boost support when played on SX. Sadly... that ship sailed, but Sony gave me hope they would do the game justice. It really is a fun game that deserves to be played.
If it were on PlayStation it would’ve sold better. Being a Microsoft exclusive was a mistake.
"where Sunset Overdrive is concerned, the money the studio has made off it is quite negligible, to say the least."
I'm sure that big platform jump had nothing to do with it right? Pull a Rare, win Rare Prizes.
Re. R&C and the 8 million, I wonder if hitting PS+ Extra hurt its legs? Good get for the service, but did it eat some sales?
Can't wait 🎆
I'm glad they changed it and made it something a lot more ridiculous and light hearted.
Glad they were able to find a core they could build upon. Alas I won't be able to play it since I don't have an Xbox One. I hope down the line it comes to PS4 but if not my roommate has an X1. I'll have to buy it on the store because his came with a bad disc drive out of the box.
This will be the game to show if Insomniac still has it. Spyro, Ratchet, Resistance were all good and Resistance ended it on a high note with 3 but Fuse was bad... Perhaps EA's fault...
I want a Xbox One just for this game, PS4 and Xone are going to be friends in my house for sure
I am still sad that I do not get to play this on my ps4 as an Insomniac supporter since the first ratchet and clank. I bought all of them on my ps2, all of them on my ps3, and I loved the Resistance resistance series which of course i also bought all of them. I can spout out all day about how unhappy it makes me, but I do not have the money or time to buy another console for one game. I just do not see anything besides this title that interests me at the moment. Everything on the PS4 just looks like too much to even keep up. I wish I had time to play all day everyday then I could get an XOne and enjoy some of their exclusive titles. Oh time where has thou gone?? : (