Insomniac’s Sunset Overdrive And Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Were Not Huge Hits For The Studio

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While Insomniac has recently been making bank on their Marvel’s Spider-Man games, the studio has had some recent struggles with some non-Marvel games.

Because of a ransomware attack that Sony did not pay to ransom, 1.2 million files from Insomniac was leaked to the public. This included details about Insomniac, parent company Sony, and also personal details of people from Insomniac and Sony.

We will discuss the leaked information below. We can’t ignore this news, but we will point out the way the information was obtained was particularly unethical. You may want to consider this yourself before you go forward with reading this news. But, like Pandora’s Box, it isn’t possible for us to just close the box and pretend nobody found out what they did.

We had previously reported on the costs of making those Marvel’s Spider-Man games. In fact, the sales figures of all of Insomniac’s titles came up from this leak. While there’s historical value to these numbers, we will focus on some recent releases.

As reported by Insider Gaming, Sunset Overdrive was a particularly dire situation for Insomniac. While it earned respectable MetaCritic scores of 81 on Xbox One and 83 on PC, the online buzz was not as glowing. There was discourse over its self-referential tone and multiplayer, but whatever the reason, it failed to attract an audience.

The title was made for $42,682,135, and sold 1,898,433 units. The game made $49,737,133, meaning it only made about $ 8 million in profit. In fact, after splitting revenue with co-developers IG and Blind Squirrel Games, it comes up on Insomniac’s ledger making $ 567.

As shared by Faizan Shaikh, another document from the leak indicates that Microsoft has exclusive rights to publish 2 Sunset Overdrive se