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playing box of choice man. Geode Ted”we are making an exclusive because xbox one is great.” Anything else? “Yes, a very big check,” Geode At Insomniac, we’ve always been transparent with our fans. It’s important to us that our fans understandwhy we do what we do – it’s really the only way to build a meaningful long-term relationship. Unfortunately, all of your fans are getting a ps4 -.- TRUE Hi I am from europe and i think you will not succeed with this game (maybe in floridaor california), since it is to special for a small group of audiance (like happens with sega game “jet set radio”), but it is perfect for US xbox players. So nothing bad when you have already got the money from microsoft to do this game without a lost, but your reputation will lack ( independant, not realy xD, Blizzard is independent. They have got so much money that the are able do develope a game for 3-5 years and cancle it without any consequence, this is true freedom) The colors in the game are so wrong (no fluffy puffy colors, please). Have you not watch any movies in the last time? The blockbusters are dark and tragedies since the last decades. Look what happend with star trek or spiderman, batman etc.. Sad that you are not try realy something new. It look likes RC only in an other setting (and which setting is it?! beachboys – haha!) So good luck for the future and try something new in an other genre. Not every time a shooter, so boring, come on try somethin new. If you wantmake a millionseller i can give you a hint. Make a game where you tell a story about the reapers and his world, that can be an epic story worth to tell as special the reaper which your a control is always drunk or dump like hell and get alwasy the wrong souls and the other reapers are already pissed of him and banned him away. But they didn’t know that you are the only true reaper ThomasMul10 Some of these comments are stupid. =P Come on guys, if you’re making games, or running any sort of business, you don’t do it for money. If you do, you will fail. Ted and his team went with Xbox One, perhaps because they felt it would be the best platform for the game, in terms of capabilities and audience. They didn’t do it because of a money bag. =P I’m getting PS4, but I would love to play Sunset Overdrive and I probably will some time in the future. =D Anson I agree. All this talk about “craploads of money”, etc, is just stupid. That said, I really think this was a bad move for Insomniac, andreally can’t figure out why they did it. Presumably, over all these years they developed a fanbase, but that fanbase is presumably pretty embedded with Sony. Insomniac’s old “partners in crime”, Sucker Punch and Naughty Dog, are both owned by Sony. “Ratchet and Clank” is owned by Sony. Any way I cut it, Insomniac seems to be splitting its fanbase with this decision (how badly depends on how many people buy both platforms, which depends on how much money people have). I believe that Insomniac made this decision because they felt it was the best choice for the game, but I’m still not seeing the logic. ThomasMul10 I think maybe Insomniac just want to branch out into other audiences, rather than just sticking with Sony. They are independent after all, and probably want to gain as many fans as possible. Admittedly, I really want to play Sunset Overdrive, but I already have a PS4 and cannot afford and Xbox One right now (I will be getting one though) ;), so I would have preferred it if thiswas multi-platform. But Microsoft have made a really good move in having Insomniac make this an exclusive title for their platform. Good exclusive titles sell a console, not graphics and power, and with the heat Microsoft have been getting over the past 8 months or so over the Xbox One, they need some good games under their belt. =) Insomniac hasn’t abandoned PlayStation, I mean, they just announced a Ratchet and Clank remake for PS4. They’ll probably be making even more exclusive titles for both platforms in the future, so I think fans of either platform have lots to be exited about! Darian Tyler The money argument is kinda throwing me off. The fact that Sony has been working with them for years. And the fact that no one cried “doing it for the money” when insomniac is making exclusive games for Sony. However, when they make an exclusive for MS then suddenly they’re only doing it for money. Let’s forget about past PS exclusives, not claiming it was for money and now just claim they’redoing it for the money. Really it is kinda sad how quick sony fanboys are quick to insult things that aren’t on their platform, or even franchises that were original PS exclusive but are not multiplat…. yobnafon everything is for the money buddy, but if you do some research you’ll notice that sony’s publishing company gave them the opportunity to bring most of their ideas to a console audience, so yeah they would be mostly sony exclusive. The first cross plat game they did was this year (Fuse), which was published by guess who…EA, and we all know about the Titanfall situation, about how EA took a deal from microsoft over top of Respawns head to make it an exclusive. I say all that to say this, I’m glad to see insomniac is working with both platforms now, but these “sony fanboys” i think is your choice term, deserve to be a little suspicious and PO’ed about this situation. In my opinion no game should be restricted to a single system but he who has the gold makes the rules. CoonDaddy ahhell naw shoot i wuz sonygger foh life now yall gunna leves jus like mah daddies always leabs The-Bas I feel bad for Insomniac. It must suck to sign a deal with the devil, and now the devil can’t deliver.. R Roberts R:FOM will always hold a special place in my heart. R2 and R3 were abominations. Here’s to hoping someone else picks up the torch and brings that franchise back…somehow…someway. brokedownsystem R3 was a return to form actually…really liked the single player. it’s too bad we won’t see anymore from Insomniac on that franchise, and likely no more from anybody else even though sony owns the IP. Yeah, R3 and Nexus were really good, but some of the other stuff they did recently wasn’t quite as good for various reasons. Either they were going way off track into gameplay that they just weren’t as good at, or they were getting weighted down by the stick-in-the-mud EA people… chris I REALLY want to have this game it looks so awesome! but I was thinking of asking to make it FPS andnot TPS and also I want to know if as a player, you can drive the in-game cars. Edwin FPS Sucks, go play CoD. Luke Moore Really disappointing, I’ve been a fan since Disruptor and have purchased every R&C game (loved Nexus was far too short though, feel as if a full scale R&C game is never going to come back) despite the apparent dip in quality in recent games. I loved the Resistance series (Resistance 2 was my favourite actually, the co-op and campaign were the most enjoyable of the entire series in my opinion) so to hear Sunset Overdrive was going to Xbox one and exclusively no less was grating as Insomniac must have been aware that the majority of their fans were getting a PS4. Especially at a time where console exclusivity makes little sense to independent developers (I actually wish the xbox fans could have access to resistance and R&C). I hope it is a form of timed exclusive because I would quite like to play this but have no interest in getting an xbox one, my 360 went unused inthe latter years of its life and I don’t particularly think Microsoft are a team who listens to developers and theirs fans (look at microsofts self publishing program that requires games to have day one parity) Daniel Dorestant I hate that it’s exclusive, what I hate even more is the way devs lie and say “its only possible on this” or “we chose to focus in on one platform” Like seriously ppl arent stupid Yes, I can understand that they did it for the money, however I cannot accept that they would write this garbage about “we did it for the fans” and completely sidestep the fact they actually did it for the money. Would have been better to not say anything at all, or just speak the truth. People like the truth, they can handle the truth and can move on with the truth. There’s respect in the truth. There’s no respect in lying to the fans. No Way All kidding a side, what Insomniac did was a sh…y move. When they announced they were going multiplatform with FUSE, their whole shtick was“Well it is also coming on PS3, it’s not like we are making an xbox exclusive”. So everyone settled down. But here they gave middle finger to their fan base and went X1 exclusive when their fanbase is made out of (mostly) PS fans, that don’t give two sh..s about Xbox. Need I remind you that they have been on PS platform since 1996, when most of you were probably not even born. So fans have right to be mad. But on the other hand, I can’t blame them. Money must have been good. Gerard Desmond This was a huge mistake on Insomniacs part.They backed the wrong horse this gen. I hope they land on their feet with this one but I don’t see that happening. Half life 3 confirmed Yup. I bet they didn’t expect the superior PS4 to outsell the inferior xbox one lol (what a no brainer choice) I would of understand if they stayed multi plat but going exclusive with Microsof……bad choice. I’m a loyal Sony pony so I’m not buying the x1. You lost a consumer insomniac! P.s. I do buy the old xbox consoles atit clear that all the exclusive DLC for PS4 is all just timed and that Xbox One gamers will still get everything the PS4 has. Sunset Overdrive is Insomniac saying: “We’ve had a problem with Sony and couldn’t wait to get out of there so, this is Xbox One exclusive, just deal with it. You’re on your own, this game is for our fans” but, there fans are sitting at a blank PlayStation screen. This is really a pretty painful sort of thing I guess you won’t understand. I’m glad you’ve got bottomless pockets but, I dont. brokedownsystem as much as I didn’t want to drop extra money on an Xbox One, this title along with Titanfall intrigued me enough to thrown down for it. It helped that Microsoft was willing to take a barely functioning ps3 on its last legs off of my hands for $100 (thereby cancelling out the cost of that damn Kinect unit). nikrel At least they have been paid already to make the game, I wonder if sales would be able to cover it if they had not been. ken yo me lo voy a comprawhen you leave for my xbox one .. the game looks beautiful and brutall ...... .ATT Puerto Rico Josh Melton Agreed Michael Harvey This looks like Saints Row With more color, and I love it! Custom characters and Jet Set Radio With Bowling Ball Launchers insanity ?! Count me in as I will be pre ordering the "Day One Edition." Thank you and your team for making a game that looks bright and fun and not just gray and gritty. John Edwards Scumbag Overdrive "We wanted to make a game for our fans" - pretty much all Insomniac fans are on Playstation and you CAN NOT expect people to just drop $ 500 on an unappealing Otherwise system due to 1 game. Plenty are not even capable of the feat financially. "We wanted to own the IP" - So They decided to pretty much give the IP Exclusively to MS Which is the same thing virtually, They Might only get a tiny bit more say on the matter. Sorry, you can not say the fans are being unreasonable. The past few years Have Been nothing but pretty lackluster games from your guys since youclearly lost it with Ratchet, never had it with Resistance, and I don’t know what the hell you were thinking with Fuse. It’s alright to say it was “for the money” because that’s essentially what all games development is. I’m just telling you to not be surprised to find that you could’ve easily made more money by not abandoning the entire fanbase you had for a new market on a less popular system. Humphprey You fanboys are comical. FiachSidhe Bull. You sold out for more money. I’m not even a Playstation owner, and this crap still pisses me off. MS offered you a dump truck of money to make your game for their system only and you sold out. That’s it. That’s the sole reason. The only reason for exclusivity is money. You say you made it “for fans”, but decided to deliver it to a mere fraction of them. For MONEY. You say you’re “pumped” to bring the game to us, but not enough to bring the game to all of us. Because MONEY. Can the mealy, “Microsoft are our new BFFs” PR spin and just be honest.and the pathetic thing is, if this game tanks on XBox One, and/or the contract expires, and your company decides to port it to another platform, you’re going to sit here with a straight face, and zero shame, and say it’s for the fans. When we all know it won’t be. People Plz Ya how dare Microsoft fund developers so they can make the games they want to make and not be dictated to make? Sony was forcing them to stick with Ratchet games until they pushed too much. FiachSidhe Oh yeah! If ever there was a caring, generous company that looked out for others it was Microsoft. Microsoft threw a ton of money at Insomniac to make the game exclusive. That’s it. They aren’t some philanthropist organization. We’re talking about a company that was completely willing to step all over their loyal customers’ rights with the XBone, and only backed down when their bottom line took a hit. Yeah how dare a publisher have a say in what they’re publishing. I mean what is really on the line, aside fromhundreds of peoples’ jobs, millions of dollars, stocks, and company reputation? See, I can make stupid arguments too! As for making a game they wanted. You’re saying they didn’t want to make Ratchet and Clank games? They made Resistance right? They made Fuse. That was published by EA, and what do you know! It was on both XB360, and PS3. No this game isn’t for the fans, its for Microsoft. Make no mistake about it. Microsoft didn’t pull up with dump truck of money and say “Make a great game for the fans”. They said “Make an expensive game for us, to make us tons of money”. Josh Melton Leadership has change Friend, this is a different MS, you can’t keep blaming ”the ones” that are no longer there. you remove the ones who were willing to step over their customers,rights.. Phil, shouldn’t be blamed for what happened at E3 2013, He’s a Nice Guy and Real Gamer like yourself”. That’s why Sony likes him and said he’s pretty cool, and that’s why MS, is only focusing on games instead of Tv andstuff. Why he got rid of Kinect Like Sony, he listens to gamers your voice is being heard. FiachSidhe That is painfully naive, to believe that simply because a few highers ups stepped down, that Microsoft’s entire business ethic has changed. Make no mistake, Microsoft HAD to change their console plans. They HAD To change and only did so when their bottom line had taken a hit. They didn’t do it because they care about you. If they cared, they never would have conceived of such plans. The public outcry and backlash was so great that they had literally handed Sony and Nintendo this generation on a platter. You’re a fool if you think that a few changings of the guard wasn’t a PR move, and that a company perfectly willing to screw you as hard as possible is simply going to change over night. They’ll just come up with ways to do so later, after the playerbase is dug in. Josh Melton Yes Friend, but the same thing can be said ”about Sony” make no mistake they need gamers to survive becauseApple & Samsung are killing them, 10 years ago they had over $100 billion, were arrogant, and very anti-customer which led to them being hacked in 2011… Now Sony is more humble but has less than 20 billion”, I believe they’re appreciating their customers more, and realize more than ever they need gamers.. if PS3 won last,generation we probably would get the Sony of that era,compared to now… Josh Melton Phil Spencer, should not pay for Don Mattrick mistakes, Mattrick was a pretty ignorant xbox division president and just because they work for the same company, does not mean, they share the same ideas. Everybody who, works,in,the game industry, said Phil is a ”Awesome Guy”,even Sony” said it was smart of MS, to put him in charge,of Xbox Divisions.. He has no problem hanging out with Sony employees”, or with,the so called competition etc. I’m happy Gamers removed Don and the other arrogant employees from MS. but the MS today is not the same MS from E3 2013. Just like the Sony of today isnot the same Sony” from the PS3,Generation, I believe and hope the company has changed and learned from it’s mistakes, They’re Big Business and Big Business are no friends.. The Job of Big Business is to make a Profit… Josh Melton Sony admitted countless times, they change their E3 plans after the public outcry MS received at E3 2013, so it’s naive to think, they wouldn’t have done the same thing, remember game Developers hate Gamestop and blame them, other, stores for driving out game companies like THQ out of business due to second hand sales.. Publishers , like EA, Capcom, Ubisoft came to both MS & Sony,to pitch those ideas, they wanted used game sales to go away, it was only after the public outcry and backlash MS received that they changed their mind. Josh Melton Not saying, MS entire business ethic has changed” Phil is in,charged of only the XBox Game Division. I’m sure the higher up’s ahead of him are probably the same. on whoever,runs the company. Xbox is just a Division withinMS” The company is much bigger than that. I just think Phil’s Job is to save XBox One. I wouldn’t say they handed this generation over to Nintendo, Wii U has been out for over a year, and XB1 has outsold the Wii U in sales in 2014… Powermad80 “Everyone here at Insomniac and on the Sunset Overdrive team at Microsoft is pumped to bring the game to you.” You aren’t bringing the game to me though. You’re actively shutting the door in my face and locking it while I’m sprinting towards you, hands filled with money. You’ve just allowed Microsoft to take your game hostage. As a person who will never, ever own an XBone or any next-gen console for that matter, I just want to play your game, very badly in fact. I don’t even care about selling out, IP practices, or whatever. You are making a game that looks amazing that I want to play, and you won’t let me. It’s an absolute certainty that I won’t buy an XBone, out of both principle and finance (I’m not loyal to one brand), and you only releasingSunset Overdrive on the XBone makes it a punch in my face. Exclusivity is as needless as ever in this new generation of consoles that brings no benefit to the consumer at all, and only hurts me as a person willing to pay you lots of money for your amazing looking game. Your exclusivity of Overdrive just supports the terrible, stagnant business model of consoles in this generation, where the game is just a marketing vehicle for selling the console, as if authors wrote great novels just to support the paper industry. Please, please port this to PC. I beg you, all I want to do is give you money so I can play your game. Don’t make it so hard for me to do so. People Plz “Lots of money for this game”. Nah keep your millions Microsoft, this kid’s offering me $60 for the game!! Josh Melton Cute PC Gamers mike They went with microsoft because sony wanted to keep the rights to the game. That’s unusual, because much of what Sony has been doing lately is publishing of games where they don’t ownthe rights. Of course, those games are mostly self funded, or pubfund (back-end funding when the game is complete) rather than fully funded by Sony. NeoMahi I’ve avoided saying anything on the matter but, I guess I can’t remain silent anymore. This really doesn’t make any sense and the “transparency” that’s spoken of still isn’t very clear. Ted Price is running a business and he’s going to jerk everyone around any not be as straight forward as he seems. The excuse that’s been given seems to tell the story but, there are still a lot of pot-holes. “Transparency” is a business tactic, a PR stunt, and an excuse for something that’s going on but isn’t be talked about. And Insomniac is going to find that their fans are going be transparent right back. Insomniac Games, you really don’t have fans on any other console. PlayStation has been your home and your family are all there. You’ve checked the numbers and the PlayStation to Xbox ratio isn’t there but the Xbox to PlayStation ratio islikes playing for the losing team like Jeff Rubinstein does. I guess as long as he has his blood money from Microsoft then who cares? Kate You guy own the IP why didn’t you put it on PC also, that way people who don’t or can’t afford to buy an Xbox one can just buy the game and enjoy it on PC that villain on 8 Maybe i am just new to this but is the point of building a reputable franchise with a massive fanbase is so on occasion they get offered truckloads of money even if satan drives it through their front door wearing a MS trucker hat just so they can make one game. Someone had to pay the light bill at the insomniac mansion and this time xbox one (my primary console atm) fronted the bill. Did they lie about being transparent. YES. But name me 2 major corp (does not even have to be gaming related) that are transparent to the fullest of their ability and still has an income that far exceeds there outgoing and more importantly why are we so pissed off at the fact that this company islying when we dont even know where our tax money goes? Just be tolerant and wait for the next awesome game or just sleep over your friends house. smoochytherhino You guys said it just right. You totally abandoned your heritage and went for the money just like Notch. It’s never about the fans, its truly about the money with you guys. Melanie Stengewis is there anything similar to sunset overdrive on ps4? a similar genre perhaps brokedownsystem infamous: 2nd Son Corey the game is a mix of ratchet and clank and infamous. Marc Pusey Should have read when Microsoft started showing us lots of money we couldn’t resist going exclusive with the xboxone that’s the actual truth lol efefef Sunset Overdrive is awesome. So glad I have an xbox one to play it. God of War hey i played sunset overdrive at my friends house on christmas when he got it and i loved it. only thing is i was hoping for playstation to have it well when i found out it wasnt was really bummed out. please bring it to all theplaystation fans so they can also enjoy his master piece Chiii Sunset Oevrdrive only sold 600K as of right now Insomiac. Now do you realize what happens when you alienate your fanbase? That’s probably a factor of it being on a less popular console this time around, and one where they need to build up a new fanbase. The real question that will tell us if they’ve “alienated” their fanbase will be how well the upcoming Ratchet and Clank reboot does. The low sales are probably offset by whatever extra money MS gave them upfront to be exclusive. Chiii True you have a point (Also, that’s 3x as much as Fuse sold, and 6x as much as Fuse sold on any individual platform.) Minnyman203 Hey insomniac I was hoping that soon you would put sunset overdrive on the PlayStation as well so the people with a PlayStation console whether it be 3 or 4 can also join in on this amazing game if this is possible could you please notify the PlayStation community so we can purchase this game and enjoy this greatcreation
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