Sony Buys Sucker Punch, Stops 'Em From Pulling an Insomniac

Cool for Sony though It's not that good or bad for insomniac.

Looking at this from both perspectives, BOTH Insomniac and Sucker Punch can benefit from their respective decisions.

Weird that it took them this long to buy Sucker Punch.

@sofacitysweetheart said:

Well, I guess I'll never play any of their games then. Good job, Sony? *shrug*

Alls fair in love n war.

cool, hopefully they're not forced to milk the crap out of infamous.  they should make a really awesome vita game so i have an excuse to buy a vita.

It's good that they bought Sucker Punch, I believe that if you've been exclusive friends for that long then there should be a permanent partnership. I was always curious why Sony didn't purchase Insomniac since it's a real shame to lose them to multi- platform development. Maybe losing Insomniac was a wake up call for Sony to buy SP.

I guess this is one more reason for me to eventually maybe buy a PS3.

This is good for Sucker Punch, but I still hope for the best for the everyone at that studio. Every time I see one of these stories, I just think that years later we'll be seeing another story labeled: Company X has closed studio Y because the games they were told to make didn't sale like CoD! Now the people who made said games are out of the job while the big wigs that canned them are unaffected in any way.

Good Move..

@Kyle said:

BBQBram said:

Make. More. Sly.

Um... they are...

Except, they're not. From your own link:
Developer(s)Sanzaru Games

I'm disappointed the title should have been "Sony buys Sucker Punch, stops them from pulling a sucker punch"

@BBQBram said:

Make. More. Sly.

Um... they are...

Well, I guess I'll never play any of their games then. Good job, Sony? *shrug*

I Bloody hate Sony, buying up all the franchises so all games become exclusive,

Some people don't have the money to own all the consoles, and get left out because they don't own 1 of the three

Bloody Sony

"Holy shit, inFamous fucking rules!" said Sony.  "Fuck! inFamous 2 rules too!" said Sony.  "Gonna fucking buy these guys... putting in PayPal info now..." and Sucker Punch was bought.  And that's how business works.

i hope this will help them create a really amazing new IP.  i havent played Infamous 2 yet and they still have 2 hero editions of the game at my local Best Buy...  im very indecisive when it comes to stuff like this

This should be a good thing. Sony seems to have a pretty good relationship with their western studios.

Good move for Sony!

Sony; holding hostages through exclusivity since 1946.

Kind of surprised they picked up Sucker Punch before Insomniac. Sucker Punch only has 2 games under their belt for the PS3, while Insomniac made about 4.5 for them. I am still surprised Insomniac went third party.

Being a first-party studio, this should give them more money and more time to iron out the wrinkles in their releases. I can't even fathom how incredible Infamous 2 would have been with some more QA testing.

If they can nix any future morality systems and tell a straight up focused narrative I think Sucker Punch can make a truly great game the likes of Uncharted. I'm really looking forward to it, we probably won't see it till PS4 though.

Never a good thing when major publishers gobble up studios. Though it may make business sense for Sony, I'm not going to applaud them for looking out for their corporate self-interest.

At best, gamers lose potential platform choice for future Sucker Punch games, Sucker Punch are unaffected by this purchase, and they get some extra marketing heft behind them. At worst, they lose creative/administrative control, or get dissolved.

Good luck to them - I enjoyed inFamous 2 - but I never like it when this happens. As Jeff said on the podcast - these kinds of acquisitions are always great for everyone... until they aren't. All it takes is one dud, one sales target not met, and you're potentially dust.

I'll never understand why gamers like and/or "applaud" these moves, unless you're a shareholder in the publisher involved.

- Scott

Shame none of those first party devs made any good psp games.  Besides the mountain of JRPG junk.

Not really too sure how to feel about this.

I thought Sucker Punch was a Sony studio :D. I guess it doesn't matter cause now it really is.

Quite a stark contrast in feeling when Sony buys a studio vs. when Microsoft does.  When Microsoft buys a studio, I feel genuinely concerned for the Studio's future, whereas with Sony I look forward to what direction the studio will go in.

I thought Sony already owned them. Go figure.

That's awesome news. I love Sucker Punch! They have put out great games and it's nice to see a company invest in them.

Loved infamous 1 and 2, probably my two favorite open world games this gen aside from Red Dead Redemption. Good for Sony and Sucker Punch, hope to see even more great exclusives in the future.

I was certain that they already belonged to Sony.

I bet we'll see Infamous on the Vita.

@sins_of_mosin said:

Shame none of those first party devs made any good psp games. Besides the mountain of JRPG junk.

What...? Sony had plenty of PSP exclusives, though a lot made by second-party devs (at least one of which they bought), and just about none of those were JRPGs. They also, on average, received relatively high review scores. If you don't like the PSP or Sony that's fine, you don't have to lie lie to get your point across.

It would have been awesome if they also owned Insomniac so that they'd have the whole trio of Naughty Dog, Insomniac and Sucker Punch.

Glad to see Sony finally buy Sucker Punch. They have been a solid studio since the PS2 days and it would have been a huge loss for them to go multiplatform like Insomniac. Now hopefully they start working on a new ip.

I just hope they use this opportunity to work on new IPs. I am sure they are talented people that can pull that off.
Also, I could live with the end of inFamous 2 being the official end of the story.

Good for Sucker Punch. Sony has a solid stable of first-party developers and I've never seen an instance where acquiring one has caused the quality or anything to go down. They do a pretty great job of supporting their devs.

Sony has some serious bangers.

sweet. I love exclusive developers. multiplatform games are a waste of space.

Less infamous, more Sly Cooper.

I guess Sony are setting things up for the release of the PS4 by securing developers to work on early exclusives!

@LordXavierBritish said:

I thought they already owned them.

Same here. For some reason, I thought the Infamous games were first-party titles rather than just PS3 exclusives.

This is good I suppose..

@JohnPaulVann said:

                There's only one problem with this deal: every game Sucker Punch has ever made SUCKS! 
           

There's only one problem with this deal: every game Sucker Punch has ever made SUCKS! 

@TheJollyRajah said:

@Snapstacle said:

Their Europe studios are kinda lame, fix that!

I think Sony owns Media Molecule? If they d then LBP would like to have a chat with you.

UK's fine, I meant the rest of it. Mostly Guerrilla and some third parties not doing much of anything.

Their Europe studios are kinda lame, fix that!