While the possibility of a new “Sunset Overdrive” game only began to resonate with fans within the last few days, rumors about a revival of the series have been in the air for about a month. On May 4, Nibel shared a trademark filed by Sony a couple of weeks earlier, an essential first step if the company was interested in developing a new game in the series for PlayStation consoles.
In addition, the director of “Sunset Overdrive,” Drew Murray, recently tweeted that he had left his position with The Initiative, a Santa Monica studio that develops games for Microsoft, to rejoin Insomniac Games. All of these events, of course, are influenced by Sony’s $229 million acquisition of Insomniac Games in 2019.
If a “Sunset Overdrive” sequel becomes a reality, fans can safely assume that it will launch as a PlayStation exclusive, as have the studio’s other recent titles such as “Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart” and “Spider-Man: Miles Morales.” This would be an interesting reversal for the series, which prompted fans to start an unsuccessful petition to end the original’s Xbox One exclusivity arrangement when the game launched in 2013, as reported by VG247.
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