After Microsoft recently bought up several developers and integrated them into the Xbox Game Studios, Sony is now also trying to expand its own development team and thus the exclusive games for its own consoles. A first deal was the purchase of Insomniac Games last year – and Sony was quite expensive.
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Last autumn, Sony caught the eye when it was officially confirmed that it had bought up the developer studio Insomniac Games. The previously independent developers had previously attracted attention primarily through largely PlayStation-exclusive game series such as Ratchet & Clank and also delivered the PS4-exclusive hit Spider-Man.
In the future, Insomniac will only develop directly for Sony due to the deal, and that has cost the PlayStation manufacturer a whole lot of money. According to the latest annual report and a report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Sony cost a whopping 229 million US dollars to incorporate the studios.
Sony officially announced the deal in late August 2019, a year after the release of Spider-Man, which sold over 13 million copies. What Insomniac is working on next for Sony is still not officially known. Rumor has it that Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is already in the works for the PS5, but a statement is still pending.
Insomniac Games was founded in 1994. The developer has also produced other well-known game series such as Spyro the Dragon and Resistance, but with Sunset Overdrive 2014 he ventured an exclusive trip to Xbox One, for example.