Marvel’s Spider-Man is one of the biggest PlayStation exclusives. Insomniac Games’ work was a success, and it was partly responsible for the acquisition of this studio. However, the story could have been very, very different, since at the time, Marvel considered partnering with Xbox instead of Sony to make their games.
In the book of The Ultimate History of Video Games Vol 2 by Steven L. Kent, Jay Ong, Executive Vice President and Director of Marvel Games, mentions that after the release of the game of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 In 2014, Marvel Games and Activision decided to prematurely end their exclusive relationship. In this way, they began to look for a company that would make Marvel’s plans a reality. At the time, Ong approached Xbox and PlayStation with the idea of creating a Spider-Man title. that was exclusive to their respective platforms.
Nevertheless, Xbox did not accept this proposal, since they decided to focus on their own series.. As you already know, PlayStation took this proposal, and began to create a new relationship with Marvel Games, and Insomniac Games were responsible for making this project a reality. This was what Ong commented on it:
“I sat down with these two third party PlayStation executives, Adam Boyes and John Drake, in August 2014, in a conference room in Burbank.
I said: ‘We dream that this is possible, that we can beat Arkham and have at least one game and maybe several games that could drive the adoption of their platform.
The rest, as they say, is history. Marvel’s Spider-Man managed to sell more than 20 million units on PlayStation 4. Insomniac Games was bought by PlayStation, and this studio is currently working on a sequel to this title, as well as a game starring Wolverine. A very interesting story about what could have been.
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Editor’s note:
It is very interesting to see that Marvel Games was well able to create an exclusive relationship with Xbox. However, it is likely that the person in charge of Marvel’s Spider-Man It would not have been Insomniac Games, but one of the Xbox Game Studios. One can think about all the possibilities, but at the end of the day the reality is that PlayStation made the right decision.
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