Rumor: Ted Price To Leave Insomniac And Create New Development Studio

There is a rumor going on in the GameFAQs forums where member Ashunv claims that his friend was hired as an intern for animation a few months ago. He says that his friend claims that Ted Price, founder of Insomniac Games, and a good amount of others will be leaving Insomniac Games in favor of creating a new development studio. Apparently this decision was made some time ago according to his friend and will become effective later this year (After the release of the new Ratchet and Clank he is assuming). He has no information regarding Ted Price's new development studio other then the fact that it is indeed happening. Apparently this situation will be discussed on Insomniac Game's next podcast and an official statement will be soon after as he claims. So look out for the next podcast, maybe they will shed more light on the situation then the little information that his friend told him.

[SRuN4]

let me guess this is the counter to the Bungie story right? Fanboys are so funny on both sides of the fence..

[Omegasyde]

"Dyan Jobe, Lead producer for the PS3 Smash hit "Warhawk", has jumped from the 11th story of the Inocognito headquarts in Santa Monica, California this morning. Fans, friends and family have come together to hold a candlelit vigil around his southeast L.A. Home this evening. Fans are lining the frontsteps of his house with bluetooth headsets, Warhawk pins, and sixaxis controllers signaling his everlasting dedication to the Sony brand throughout the years."

-FoxxxNews.com

-lol I one-uped that rumor with my own.

[ktchong]

a lot of rumors going on.

[MK_Red]

Hope it's just a forum post and a wrong rumor because I can't imagine Resistance 2 and future Ratchet & Clanks without him.

[the worst]

because Bungie departure from Microsoft
haha

[SRuN4]

Why would Ted want to leave? Didnt he already leave Sony to form this studio? Why would he want to leave his OWN studio to start yet another one? He already has the freedom to do whatever he wants in terms of IPs and development. So this makes NO sense to me, like I said it's just a counter to the Bungie claims.

[DarkArcani]

Exactly what I was thinking. Leaving is own studio to form yet another one.

He is better off forming another studio and being the head of both. That would be the logical thing to do.

[sanderFVCKINcohen]

lololol

[WilHar]

I'm justing posting the news I found could possibly mean that Insomniac Games is finally going to officially join forces with Sony? I really don't know. It's really not all that far fetched... David Jaffe and the heads of Naughty Dog were in similar situations and parted ways.

[Mu5afir]

Ted Price OWNS Insomniac game studio, unlike Naughty Dog which is OWNED by Sony.

[DrWan]

Insomniac is 2nd party, the studio funds its own project and works independently, Ted's studio could be Sony exclusive as well. it doesn't have to be anti-Sony or pro MS.

[Cat]

unlikely. it's ted's studio, it would be like steve jobs leaving apple or bill gates leaving MS.

[crck]

MS and Apple are publically traded companies. Gates and Jobs just own a ton of shares in each company and have positions there. As far as I know Insonmiac is a private company owned by Ted Price and maybe a few partners. What would be the point of leaving?

[Cat]

ur right, less sense.

[socomnick]

Maybe he will start making xbox games :)

[crck]

They are completely independent from Sony. They have so far decided to stick with Sony.

[socomnick]

maybe ted price wanted to make a xbox game and had problems so he wants to make his new stupid.

[btkadams]

i was under the impression that ted price wasnt even working on ratchet, that he was working on resistance while another personw as heading the development of ratchet. or maybe its the other way around. ANYWAYS, this is extremely fake and no one should have much concern.

[Kleptic]

I heard the same thing...Kind of similar to Cliffy B working on Gears of War, while a lot of the company was working on UT3 the whole time...the next R&C game was being worked on in parallel to Resistance...people think they pulled this game out in about a year, but its been in development longer than that...it just recieved the back burner for a while during Resistances last few months...

Insomniac is really big...well over 100 developers...and Price built it from the ground up more or less...and it is still technically an independent company, he has just stated numerous times that the team prefers Sony hardware, and Sony's fans...but he took the lead of Resistance with the intention of making sure it is a successfull franchise...and gave the driver's seat for Tools of Destruction to someone else within the company...

I doubt its true...Resistance 2 will probably be announced soon after Ratchet ships...He has stated that the franchise was designed from the beginning to have several sequels, and several waves of DLC for each game...unless Resistance goes with him to a new studio, this whole rumor doesn't make a lot of sense...

[Lord Anubis]

this is completely unfounded and something silly a person created Insomniac is owned by Ted Price, he is also the president of his company. He might as well change the company name, unless. Sony wants to buy insomniac but if sony wanted to buy insomniac they would want ted price to remain.

[games4fun]

bunjie leaves microsoft (possible but very unlikely) and ted leaves insomniac (his own studio) to become bunjiac with great games like ratchethalo, and oniresistance

[xionpunk]

thats as strange as Naughty Dog without Jason Rubin.

[doomsonyman]

naughty dog is still good with out jason rubin and andy gavin and insomniac will be the same with out ted price if this is true

[Mu5afir]

I am loving how dumb this rumor sounds, the founder of the studio is going to leave his own studio to make another studio. I am assuming this brilliant rumor was created to counter the Bungie leaving MGS. Maybe next time people should look into who owns what, before commenting.

Insomniac is a INDEPENDENT studio, it is NOT owned by Sony. Fanbots.

[Maddens Raiders]

he's going to team up w/ Jaffe and they'll form A-RRoD studios. As in atypical. LOL j/k

[iceice123]

A gamefaqs forum post approved???? Forum post...and IT IS GAMEFAQS FOR GOD SAKES!

[rushbd]

Insomniac is already an independent developer . If Ted wants to create a multiplatform title, he can do it right now.

Looks like someone didn't do his homework before creating the rumor.

[gtgcoolkid]

How the hell do these rumors get approved? First the Bungie/Microsoft rumor and now this. This is getting ****ing ridiculous on both sides.

[cr33ping_death]

damn this website is getting worse and worse as each day goes by.......me thinks ill refrain from reading anything remotely BS and stop reading the comments...... the admins of this website need to step in soon or this website will go down the drain fast.

[jackdoe]

My god. Gamefaqs board post is approved as news? Whoever approved this should be banned.

[Devr]

Rumor debunked by a developer in the IG forums:

"Completely, totally and categorically false.

Spread the words... Ted is definitely NOT leaving Insomniac. How an intern would have gotten this idea is beyond any of us here.

JS"

The same person also posted on the Gametrailers forums.

[PimpHandHappy]

i wish that dude all the best and thanks for some great games!

[Gahigiddy]

And yes, debunked fully by Insomniac themselves.

[ErcsYou]

hahahaha...this is funny in so many ways..

if true, ted could just want to start up another development studio...owning two is better than one..plus you can make twice as much money...its still all about that dollar bill.

i feel bad for insomniacs interns because some ones gettin that a$$ whooped tomorrow..
a xbot just ruined some poor kids dream job....hahahahaha..thats f**ked up

oh snaps!!!!! i just heard from a friend that he over heard two nerds at wal mart" aka wally world" say that sony just bought insomniac,R* and bungie because M$ is jumping ship...looks like its back to making flight simulators... i also heard that M$ was going to get ff13 and mgs4....but when they approached konami and square, they got laughed at by short japanese people in suits ...

[shysun]

They're an indy sdudio, why would he leave?

[TooL 316]

this makes no sense, the last time i check sony did not own insomniac. why would Ted leave his own studio? the only way this is true is if sony bought them out like they did with evolution studios, its something most devs do when they sell their studios.

[squallsoft]

...news website. so many rumors flying around these days, that it makes my head spin...