Sony Purchased Insomniac Games for $229 Million - News

They spent 200 million for a company that all ready makes PS exclusives

Yes, but this will help to focus even more. I believe this is good for Insomniac because now their road ahead is clear and secured. And for Sony because they already have a great partnership with them. Win-win for both :)

They spent 200 million for a company to help them continue making PS exclusives.

Apparently Sony did try and have tried multiple times but Insomniac kept declining, because they wanted to stay independent. But I guess they knew they couldn't stay afloat without their sugar daddy.

Well Naughty Dog was bought like 20 years ago =p

Insomniac finally took note that every game they released that wasn’t PS exclusive turned to be a commercial failure, and they couldn’t maintain their studio size on their own for much longer.

Sony isn't revealing, they are disclosing information probably demanded by SEC and some journalist got that info. I guess you could research there how much MS paid for each company.

They’re not done yet.

Price was probably already established before Spider-Man was even released, and also they don't own the IP that is Sony, as all games they made to Sony. So even though it seems cheap it was probably a very good deal for Insomniac.

Well its easy. MS paid for the IPs Sony paid for the talent. This pretty much sums up one of the biggest differences between the two.

Sony easily got the better deal of the two. Rare's IPs didn't turn out to be worth that much, and the Stampers are long gone, but Insomniac has some serious talent.

Yes, Sony paid 250M to have Sunset Overdrive, sure sure. Spider-Man and Ratchet and Clank are much bigger money makers and both already belong to Sony but Insomniac have the knowledge to make those games what we know.

Sony also isn’t going to have Insomniac release a bunch of remasters, before turning them into a studio that only makes motion control games lol

I kind of doubt Rare’s purchase ever paid itself off, but Insomniac will pay itself off within a week after the next Spider Man releases lol

@hunter - IPs and large library of games. There were also new IPs with success.

@San - I am not arguing its a bad purchase. It just seems like they paid too much for a studuo they already controlled and kept alive. Maybe they should have paid less before Spiderman came out.

@Don - I didnt say they paid that solely for Sunset Overdrive. You often miss the point.


@Daiga - They only really made like two motion games. I dont think they did the heavy lifting in Kinect Sports 2.

But between the success of Kinect Sports games, Killer Instinct seemingly did well, Sea of Theives was actually a big hit, and they probably made money when Nintendo rereleased DKC games on GBA. It was likely a worthwhile purchase from those nitable projects with more coming.

Sony didnt need to buy Insomniac to get Spiderman 2. You should have realized that. lol

Seems like you miss irony then.
So Rare made some money 10 years after purchase? You know this type of deal is looked for return within 10 years right?
And nope we all know they could do SpiderMan 2 without buying Insomniac. Now calculate the profit of what Sony can do in the next 5 years with Insomniac being owned by them versus hiring the services, if it is much lower than 285M then you would have a point. But considering how well they have been doing lately this seem the right amount.
Still waiting you to show that MS profited 2.5B on Minecraft alone after purchasing Mohjang, because if you think Sony will have a hard time making the money back then MS would have even more, and they also didn't need to buy mohjang for it to keep releasing in MS, and it even release elsewhere.

The talent at Rare was either leaving or have already left. Nintendo was smart letting the company go. This is NOTHING like Insomniac where there is talent, and they have a good working relationship with Sony.