Ratchet PS3 to Connect to PSP Clank Game, Not to Home

Ratchet & Clank Future is receiving universal praise and seems to have become the definitive PlayStation 3 game. In an interview with MTV News, developers Insomniac discussed the lack of multiplayer and connectivity with the PSP and Home (or lack thereof), among other things.

While Ratchet seems like a perfect game to tie into Home, Insomniac revealed that any sort of functionality connecting R&C Future to that bizarro Second Life meets Xbox Live service, Home, isn’t built into the game. But, the game does feature some unrevealed connectivity with the upcoming PSP game Secret Agent Clank. While it remains “secret [and] undisclosed,” connectivity is always a way to achieve sales you wouldn’t otherwise get. Point in case, all of that crap to connect Animal Crossing on GameCube to your GBA.

Additionally, there’s no connectivity to Resistance, Insomniac’s launch title for the PS3. Despite the marketing push being made on the game, the developer didn’t want to connect the mature-rated Resistance with the E10+ Ratchet.

Seemingly the biggest hole in the game is the lack of any multiplayer, which prior R&C games had.

“We had a blast developing multiplayer, and we loved it,” creative director Brian Allgeier said. “People in the office and at Sony still play it occasionally. But we were kind of disappointed to find that less than 5 percent of players actually played it who actually played the game for both ‘Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal’ and ‘Deadlocked.’ And so, in looking at ‘Ratchet & Clank Future,’ we thought, well we could spend 30 percent of our resources on multiplayer, but that would take 30 percent away from the single-player experience.”

If you ask me, they made the right decision.

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