This year after the E3 press conferences, The Game Fanatics caught up with Sunset Overdrive’s Creative Director, Marcus Smith, and Lead Designer, Drew Murray, who spent some time giving us some insight Insomniac’s first open-world adventure.
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?
Looks Awesome
I hope this game becomes Multi-platform after the first game(since insomniac owns the IP). There are a lot of playstation fans who Love Insomniac and grew up with their games. I wish sony had treated them better, they were always treated as the unwanted child
but i also hope with sunset overdrive insomniac really gets their Mojo back.
just don't have time for 2 consoles anymore with family and job. but i may have to get my friend's xbox one to play this.
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I am not understating your question? If this is what you are asking
Than i have a job that doesn't allow me enough time to play games, i play maybe 10 hours per month(if that). I own a ps4 so if i buy another consoles i really won't have time for it.
My wife surly won't like the fact i bought another(she thinks 10 hours on ps4 per month are too much LOL)
so i for one can justify buying another consoles.
I usually take my time, i buy games at launch than they sit for a long time before i get to them(i know i shouldn't buy at full price when buying later could save big bucks. But if its my favorite series or developer than i feel like i should support them)
please dont start hyping this game like title was .. please i beg you.
I love insomniac i have almost all their games and still looking for a Fuse disc cheap i want to try it.
But please no more overhyping a game simply because its going on one console vs the other.
There's a lot of "cringe" going on with the marketing of this game, but it sure does look fun as heck.