Insomniac Games’ announcement that their latest product, Sunset Overdrive, will be an Xbox One exclusive was quite surprising; the company has been developing games for Sony for nearly twenty years. Yes, their 2013 release Fuse was released for both the Xbox 360 and PS3, but the company has released sixteen previous titles solely for the PlayStation systems. On top of that, Insomniac Games created iconic titles that became synonymous with the Sony brand: Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet & Clank, and the Resistance series. It is important to point out that though they created these famous titles, Insomniac does not own the rights to these games: Sony does.
And that was a big thing for the company. These famous franchises helped the company become successful, but Insomniac Games wanted their own Intellectual Property (IP). And the only company willing to give them that power with Sunset Overdrive was Microsoft Studios: Marcus Smith, the co-creator of Sunset Overdrive with Drew Murray, further elaborates on this story while talking to IGN.
“We pitched it a few different places, and it was really important to [Insomniac CEO] Ted [Price] that we own the IP, so some of the conversations broke down over that. With Microsoft, they just came in very energetic and excited to work with Insomniac, period. And we’d heard some really good things about them and some resources that they would be allowing us to have.”
This information is coming after the release of the first gameplay trailer, which somehow copies the beautifully cartoonish look of last year’s computer generated trailer. In the footage the ‘omnipotent voice’ introduces the look, style, crazy guns, inhabitants and villains of Sunset Overdrive. While this is a little taste of the final product, I would expect to see more of it at E3 2014. For now, the game is slated to be released in 2014 for the Xbox One.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ9FXIloYb8
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