Insomniac Pitched Resistance 4, But It Was Rejected by Sony - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 February 2025 / 3,011 Views
Insomniac Games Founder and President Ted Price last month announced he will be retiring from the video game industry at the end of March.
Price in a new interview with Kinda Funny discussing Insomniac Games and his retirement was asked if there was any game he wished he could have worked on and he revealed the studio at once point pitched Resistance 4.
"It was a wonderful concept. It was the result of a lot of Insomniac Games team members being passionate about extending the story further," said Price (via VideoGamesChronicle).
"I do believe that Resistance set up a cool alternate history base where anything can happen with the Chimera and where they go and what their origins are. We spent a lot of time working on backstory and brainstorming on where we could take this in the future."
Price said the reason Sony rejected the pitch was due to the "timing and market opportunity."
Resistance is a series of first-person shooters developed by Insomniac Games. The three mainline entries released for the PlayStation 3 from 2006 to 2011.
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R3 was an amazing game and pretty much matured the franchise to perfection. It was simply way different than other FPS's of that era. They should have re-released it on the PS4 later on as a remake/remaster to see if there is still some interest for the franchise.
Resistance 4, online multi-player = FUN!
Always hard to know where things go with things like this. Resistance 3, release in 2011 to a console with at least 50 million units at the time and just scrapped over 1 mil (according to this website), that's not the best for a first party title. Now might a Resistance revival now do decently? Probably but then? Sony were probably right. For both the series and Insomniac.
Would have loved to see another entry in the series. Resistance 3 was the best entry, in my opinion. Hopefully the series continues at some point and can continue the trend of increasing quality.
Resistance is my favourite FPS franchise and hearing that Sony rejected a pitch for a 4th one really hit me right in the gut.
I wish Sony released the trilogy as a remaster on PS4 along with inFAMOUS 1 & 2, Killzone 2 & 3 , LBP 1 & 2 and Twisted Metal (2012) just to have another fresh crack at them.
Trilogy remaster would be swell.
The trilogy was amazing,
1 was a killer begining co-op campaign
4 player local split screen multiplayer
2 had an amazing 8 player online coop, 2 player split screen coop with levelling up loadouts
The first ever 30v30 multiplayer which ran well on ps3 was insane!
3 had a great local coop campaign and had a weaker multiplayer line up but 3 had the best story and campaign of all the three
I loved 2's 8 player online co-op had so much fun and met some great people playing it.
I like playing it with my cousin (split screen offline) nowadays, the levelling up rpg mechanic on a shooter was addicting
Resistence 4 or a reboot has a lot of potential. Doesnt have to be another CoD clone style game, also is now releasing when CoD fatigue is at an all time high and Sony needs more exclusives even is Xbox is giving up. They could even dial up the horror to make it stand out more if they wanted. It's been so long since 3, and just cause 3 didnt meet sales metrics doesnt mean the series has no financial opportunity
Good. Series was on a sales decline with 3 selling the worst.
No publisher in their right mind would greenlight a 4th.
Like Naughty Dog, I think they're best at making platformers, anyway.
Nah, they have something special going with the Spiderman games. They should just stick to that for now.
Spiderman games are so damn repetitive that it gets boring fast
I still love it. I get you don't like it but come on the games sell 10+ million just on PS5. It would be crazy to stop making that series. They not only sell a lot period they sell a lot of consoles. If they manage to make a proper MP with Spiderman multiverse as well (which I 100% believe they will continue trying to do) that is going to print money for them if done right.
It does mean they are good to the people paying for their music/tours. All those people paying them and going to see them think they are good. Just cause you and I don't like Bierber or Swift just means they aren't good to us. Unfortunately you don't like the Spider man games anymore and that's fine but you can't expect Sony to cater to fans like you when they have another 10+ million who are enjoying exactly what they are getting.
Lots of games are repetitive and people enjoy them. Look at COD selling millions. I can't stand it, it's the same shit every time with very little variation but it's the top selling game every year. Clearly people love it.
What you're looking for is just other games and that's fine. Luckily these days there are so many games out there that cater to all kinds of people. Not everything has to be for everybody.
But it's a war game so the gameplay of shooting will never change. However spiderman combat can beroe doeth as spiderman has more moves then we were given. And the sidequest of stopping car chase, stopping robbery, stopping gangs on rooftops and repeat that 5btimes for each suburb
.did insomniac really fun out of ideas?
For you? Yes, insomniac ran out of fun ideas. I enjoyed the game but you didn't so the best thing to do is just not go back to it. I loved The Witcher 1 and 2 and thought #3 was horrible but that's when people fell in love with the series. You know what I did? I stopped playing 3 and I don't even care about #4. I know plenty of people will though and I'm sure they'll love it also. Sometimes a series just stops being fun and the best thing you can do is just walk away. I walked away from Gears after #3. I loved that series and it's the only reason I got an Xbox but they ran out of fun ideas and story and I was done with the series.
Resistance is a much better fps then killzone. Shame they killed it
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