Sony buys Insomniac Games

thesnowdog

Astrobot would be cool but it's a first party title so I don't think it's likely to happen. I don't think we'll see Resident Evil 7 either because it was only a 1 year timed exclusive according to reports so it not coming to PC VR is down to Capcom being crap...I just put it there so I can dream lol

MikeKay1976

1 on astrobot, resi is a must but like already said that could come now if capcom wanted it.

lets just say i aint holding my breath however even tho i dont think it would harm sony or oculus if it happened, and indeed i thiink everyone would gain over all.

Presuming Ed

It was ... a joke.

Sony buys Insomniac Games

thesnowdog

And I can't see how this is possibly bad for Oculus except that they won't be able to fund Insomniac to make any MORE games.

The current Oculus library hasn't got any smaller as far as I'm aware because all of their games are still there on the Oculus Store, and it isn't affecting Stormlands either because that's still being released.

Presuming Ed

Obviously I don't know the details of it but it seems fairly straightforward that if Oculus entered into a contract with a studio to produce a game, then that contract stands, no matter who owns the studio.

I guess one or two people just want to look for the negatives where Oculus are concerned.

aoaaron

I think this is a negative for everyone in the gaming industry except Sony tbh.

Atmos

I think it’s great. It counteracts all those exclusives Facebook has made. I’ll buy PS5 and I hope it supports OpenXR.

Valve could make a deal to release their exclusives on the Sony Store in exchange for Sony’s exclusives.

Facebook created this environment buying as many exclusives as they could so it only fair Valve, Sony, MS do the same.

Presuming Ed

I don't think Facebook created the concept of exclusives.

You could argue that the consoles - which you appear to lend your support to - were instrumental in the growth to prominence of exclusives.

Why do you support Sony and their exclusives in one sentence, but condemn Facebook and theirs in the next?

aoaaron

Valve can’t even be bothered to make their own. They aren’t going to make a deal with sony that involves money and they have no games to trade.

Much higher likelihood that Sony and Facebook partner up.

I have a PS4pro and psvr. The issue I have with Sony’s vr ecosystem is that from a hardware perspective they are always a generation behind so although their production values are great, the experience is hampered by control input and tech limitations. This in turn means games just aren’t going to be easily translated to pcvr in their strongest form.

I would have preferred for valve or oculus to have bought up the studio. But I guess sony have more in mind for them than just VR titles which probably forms a small part of the teams future work load and why the other guys couldn’t buy them up.

aoaaron

because he hates Facebook.