Ted Price Promises New Insomniac IPs, Says Ratchet is Selling Well

There was some concern aired when Ratchet & Clank Future managed to sell just 74,500 this past October  in a PlayStation 3 market that wasn’t overflowing with high quality games. But it turns out that the game has managed to surpass the one million mark worldwide, which Insomniac’s Ted Price says is on par with the PlayStation 2 games. That’s the first bit of good news surrounding Insomniac.

MTV Multiplayer spoke with Price last month at DICE and asked him about the apparent flip-flopping of Ratchet and Resistance games every year, where the games are given a two year development cycle as compared with the yearly Ratchet releases we saw on PS2. But rather than confirm that this is what Insomniac has in store, he said that they intend to develop new IP – definitely something good to hear from a high quality developer like Insomniac. But don’t worry, Resistance 2 should still be here this year.

On the PS2 you guys were basically doing a “Ratchet” every year. Now, the indication is that “Resistance” is trading off with “Ratchet” every year. Is that a pattern people should be expecting from you guys?

Well, we’ll continue to produce new IP, there’s no question about that. So that means that pattern won’t necessarily continue as you stated. You do see “Resistance 2? coming out this year. One thing that has been nice for us is that instead of the one-year cycles that we had on PlayStation one, we now have two-year cycles, which gives us a chance to do really thorough pre-production and gives the team the chance to take a bit of a break — and gives consumers a break, too. We were experiencing consumer fatigue with “Ratchet” on the PlayStation 2.

Multiplayer is only teasing us with part of the full interview, which we should see more of in the upcoming days. Expect to see some Resistance 2 talk in the next day or so.