Sony buys Insomniac Games

Atmos

Sony’s acquisition of Insomniac turns the PS4 and PSVR maker into the owner of upcoming PC VR game Stormland and a host of other VR and AR projects.

huxley

Stormland is still going on the oculus store but I would like to think it will go on other store fronts as well.

Presuming Ed

Well I'm not losing any sleep over it.

Atmos

Me either. It’s more reason to buy a PS5 and PSVR2.

Atmos

It was only a matter of time before these Exclusivity shenanigans blew up in someone’s face.

thesnowdog

How is that blowing up in anyone's face? Stormlands is still being released on the Oculus Store and as far as we know so are the other exclusives that Insomniac have developed for them. The only thing this is stopping is Oculus funding any more exclusives for the Oculus Store in the future from Insomniac.

And why is it okay for Sony to fund exclusives for their headset and Store and not Oculus or any other headset manufacturer?

I don't have a problem with Sony having exclusives because the more people that buy headsets of any kind on any platform the more chance there is of AAA publishers bringing multiplatform AAA games to VR.

Exclusives are VERY important for the industry.

This isn't the first time that a AAA indie developer has been bought by one of the big boys, the same thing has happened to Respawn when EA bought them not so long ago. That purchase is also not going to affect the release of an exclusive developed for the Oculus Store because platform holders and developers have contractual obligations.

Blowing up in someone's face lmfao

huxley

lol here we go again. Someone funded a game, is that shenanigans? I think not.
If anything being purchased by the major player in the console market will lock things down even more.

Atmos

So you guys think this is good for Oculus? A company who’s store is built off the back of exclusives?

If this deal is good for Oculus why did Oculus pay for exclusives in the first place?

If this deal is bad for Oculus why don’t people just admit it instead of pretending it’s not bad?

It can’t be both good and bad. Or do Forums suspend reality?

huxley

Its a bit soon to tell. It cant be a bad thing for Insomniac. Does this mean they will be locked to Sony and not any other platforms or store fronts? Nothing has been confirmed. Even the likes of Microsoft are releasing on other stores (Steam), so I don't see that Sony will be any different going forwards. They seem to have opened up a bit of late with the online aspect, so I don't see any problems here apart from the new found security for the staff at Insomniac.

thesnowdog

And Atmos is back on the Oculus forums. Again lol