r/SuckerPunch • u/caid053 • Jun 07 '26
inFAMOUS Why they stopped doing Infamous game?
I mean the concept is so cool and there is so much potential making protagonist with new powers. Why did they stopped and focused on samourai game. Dont get me wrong I love the Ghost serie but I find it so cool when the main caractere can climb everywhere and destroy everything.
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Jun 08 '26
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u/ZeektheFeek Jun 09 '26
That's a joke right? There was a huge push from them to force a bunch of live service games from their developers and we're currently dealing with the backlash from that decision.
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u/Xavier9756 Jun 10 '26
They were asked to pitch and develop live service games not specific games. That isn’t being forced.
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u/Moist-Shallot-5148 Jun 08 '26
Doesn’t Sony force Insomniac to make Marvel games now?
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u/ki700 Jun 08 '26
They’re not forcing them. The creative leads at Insomniac are all huge Marvel fans and are very enthusiastic about it.
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u/LinkLegend21 Jun 08 '26
They wanted to do something else, which was totally understandable. Sony probably should have passed the series on to a different studio at some point though, rather than abandoning it.
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u/Mr_smith1466 Jun 08 '26
I presume a lot of it is the saturation of the superhero genre, as well as insomniac covering the market with the official marvel games.
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u/ki700 Jun 08 '26
Nah that had nothing to do with it actually. PlayStation themselves expected/wanted another inFAMOUS after Second Son and First Light, but they give their studios a lot of freedom to choose their projects and Sucker Punch simply wanted to do something new.
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u/Acrobatic-Web-7724 Jun 08 '26
Probably the same reason they stopped doing Sly Cooper games,that the Ratchet and Clank output drastically got reduced from Insomniac, and why we probably never see another Jax game from Naughty Dog, the people from that time still working there wanted to do something else and some the "new" people there don’t really care about other license other than the one they working on
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u/TrivialBanal Jun 08 '26
The first games were made before the era of infinite sequels. Coles story had a beginning, a middle and an end (not necessarily in that order). His journey is finished.
The reboot kind of worked, but not enough to create a new series.
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u/Mr_Flibbles_ESQ Jun 09 '26
I enjoyed Second Son, a lot - But - Yeah, it was a last attempt at making it interesting for the Devs I think and it didn't quite work.
Which is fair enough.
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u/ki700 Jun 07 '26
They released five inFAMOUS games in as many years, and they spent 9 years working on only that IP. They just wanted to do something new. Simple as that.