Insomniac Games looks to stay independent
- Posted February 12th, 2008 at 09:37 EDT by
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In today’s current state of industry deals, it is not uncommon to see a larger company buy out a smaller one. This has happened all across the board in the past few years with one of the more recent ones being Electronic Arts purchasing Bioware/Pandemic, the creators behind Mass Effect and Mercenaries 2.
Insomniac Games, the creative minds behind Resistance: Fall of Man and Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, is a small studio with a lot of punch in this industry - and from what CEO Ted Price has said, it aims to stay that way.
In an interview during the D.I.C.E. event held last week, Price admitted that he is constantly approached and asked about selling, private equity money to which he has always declined.
While the company currently does not have the bandwidth to develop cross-platform he insisted that it is impressive to look at the great success and sales figures of those companies who do develop cross-platform, as if there is a slight hint that Insomniac may go multiplatform in the future given the opportunity.
However keeping things PlayStation 3 specific, Price said in the interview that in the future, the PS3 will move beyond the typical gaming machine mold and into a more multimedia scheme to garner a much larger audience. This will come, as more users will learn the full capabilities of the machine. Furthermore, Price mentioned that developing games specifically for PSN is something they are currently looking into.
"I think that we are optimistic that PlayStation 3 will continue to expand its base beyond the hardcore gamer as more and more games come out for it - especially as PSN continues to offer more free demos and more content that can be accessed by anybody very easily," said Price.
"We've actually thought seriously about doing a PSN title. It just hasn't made its way into our current production cycle yet."
Currently the team is hard at work on Resistance 2, of which Price discusses about in our recent news story here.
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hesmanes |
hesmanes- 9:51am GMT - February 12th, 2008
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This is great news, rather than companies thinking of there wallets getting bigger from buyouts, its good to see a company dedicated and to have all there concentration focused onto the ps3! The future with Insomniacs is going to be very bright!
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shadowrth |
shadowrth- 9:52am GMT - February 12th, 2008
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i don't care if they stay alone as long as they keep the love on ps3 in my opinion insomniac is one of the best developers out there and a lot of people should learn off of them cough*EA*cough and instead of whining about the ps3 just learn it and move on cause it's here to stay. (cause knowledge is power) lol thats hilarious....
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woodcock_ps3 |
WALL-MARTshinobi- 9:57am GMT - February 12th, 2008
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plz insomniac dont do what capcom did and go cross-plaform it will be great to still c a developer like u guys pump out A+ games for the ps3 Which look awesome every time.i think by 2010 we will see the ps3 power at its fullest thanks to the exclusive's games and software.
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woodcock_ps3 |
WALL-MARTshinobi- 11:15am GMT - February 12th, 2008
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@Limanima if they go multiplatform the games would preform vary week and not use the consoles potential power so they would have to down grade the specs just to make it work on the 360 or even the wii exclusive games will run at top noch and show off the console's power and also push other developers to do the same.
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TekkenLord |
HitMan00- 11:32am GMT - February 12th, 2008
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once Insomniac keeps the ps3 love i am very happy.
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 12:21pm GMT - February 12th, 2008
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It's really weird,big companies like Activision blizzard,Ubisoft and the like take so long to make one single sub-par title,and a small company like Insomniac keeps pumping out AAA titles all across the board,in a fraction of the time.
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BD_BLACKAZZ |
BD_BLACKK- 3:31pm GMT - February 12th, 2008
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I think INSOMNIAC is a great company so im looking forward to seeing some of the new games coming out on the PS3 .....
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SilentHillSam |
SilentHillSam- 7:10pm GMT - February 12th, 2008
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too bad. hope they'll join sony sometime in the future. well, as long as they make playstation exclusives i'm happy. stay exclusive insomniac!
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princevegeta1980
- 4:00am GMT - February 13th, 2008
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i love insomniac and thier games, i hope that with the increas of ps3 being sold it will help to boost thier sell's so that they don't go multiplatform, can't wait to see what they could do for psn, can't wait for rfom 2, if been waiting for this one ever since i finished the first one
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v8nnwilder
- 4:47am GMT - February 13th, 2008
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Insomniac just gained even more respect from me... An trust me I had a lot already. As long as they stay true I will keep buying EVERY game they make just on their reputation.
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 5:03pm GMT - February 13th, 2008
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Sony better be helping Insomniac as much as they will allow right now. I think Insomniac will be one of the first devs to hit the ceiling of the PS3 power.
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