Sunset Overdrive: Insomniac Games is about to launch a PS5 sequel

Game news Sunset Overdrive: Insomniac Games is about to launch a PS5 sequel

Published on 05/14/2021 7:47 pm

Sunset Overdrive, the exclusive Microsoft product first released on Xbox One in 2014, is one of the few productions signed by Insomniac Games not to see the light of day on a PlayStation console. On May 4th, we learned that Matthew J. Kuykendall, Sony intellectual property attorney, had just re-registered the Sunset Overdrive trademark. It didn’t take much for fans to wonder again whether or not the game would be released on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. But that was before Insomniac Games’ creative director decided to work in GQ. Magazine To Talk: What If That Was Deposit? more about the sequel?

It is during one interview Usually dedicated to Ratchet & Clank: Rift aside from the fact that Marcus Smith, the creative director of Insomniac Games, returned on the topic of Sunset Overdrive not to speak of a likely port but to mean that it would not oppose a second episode .

I think there are many stories to tell in this universe and I would like to come back to them. I had a lot of fun playing this game. Marcus Smith, Creative Director of Insomniac Games

A Sunset Overdrive 2 on PlayStation 5? “Never say Never !” specifies Marcus Smith, even if such a project is not up-to-date.

In fact, the creative director states that this idea is perfectly plausible given that the intellectual property is not owned by Microsoft, but by Insomniac Games.

Of course we are now part of Sony, but we own the intellectual property so nothing really stops us! Marcus Smith

As a reminder, Insomniac Games, the studio owned by Sony since February 2020, is currently working on Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. The game will be released exclusively on PlayStation 5 on June 11th. For more information, check out our preview by clicking here.