Insomniac strike me as a company who lost their vision a long time ago, now they are just industry plodders
Well, the truth is Insomniac never were real originators. They followed trends and made mostly solid games based on them. They made mascot platformers when they were hot, and first person shooters when they're hot. They're even dipping their toes into social gaming because that's hot right now. Their vision seems to be the same, the difference is that their name is being hurt by shipping things like Resistance 2, and Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One as well as no longer having the support of SCE (and the marketing, as well as the fanbase associated with being an SCE release) which shows. Fuse was unveiled rather randomly because the game means little to EA, and given its' time frame for launch it has no big public industry trade show to be shown to the gaming public.