Sony rejected a pitch for Resistance 4, claims Insomniac founder
The Resistance franchise is largely dormant in 2025, with the main series of games locked to PS3
Outgoing Insomniac Games founder and president Ted Price has claimed that Sony rejected a pitch for Resistance 4.
Speaking during an interview with Kinda Funny to celebrate his career at the developer, Price was asked about which game he wished he could have worked on, but didn’t work out. Price revealed that at one point, the studio pitched Sony on a fourth mainline entry in the Resistance franchise.
The Resistance franchise was a series of alternative history first-person shooters. The first game in the series was a launch game for the PlayStation 3, the console that would house the entire mainline franchise.
“It was a wonderful concept. It was the result of a lot of Insomniac Games team members being passionate about extending the story further,” said Price.
“I do believe that Resistance set up a cool alternate history base where anything can happen with the Chimera and where they go and what their origins are. We spent a lot of time working on backstory and brainstorming on where we could take this in the future.”
As for why Sony rejected the pitch, Price claims that the “timing and market opportunity,” for the game wasn’t right at the time.
Since the conclusion of the Resistance franchise in 2011, Insomniac Games has become one of the most prolific studios in Sony’s lineup. In the decade since, the studio has released three Ratchet and Clank titles, three Marvel Spider-Man games, Sunset Overdrive, and other smaller titles.
As of 2025, the series is largely dormant. Due to the majority of the games in the series being released on the PS3, they currently can’t be played on PS5. The series was never remastered for PS4 despite years of rumors.
In 2022, Days Gone director Jeff Ross claimed that he pitched Sony an open-world revival of the Resistance franchise.
