SPIDER-MAN Video Game Franchise Was Very Nearly An Xbox Exclusive - But They Turned Marvel Down!

Wasn't this already an article 5 days ago?

Also i like to mention on any video game article that i am patiently awaiting Amy Hennig's announced Marvel title. Amy is an icon to me.

I kinda assumed it was always gonna be a Sony exclusive because Sony also holds the movie rights, but I obviously forgot all the previous Spider-Man games (like the amazing Friend or Foe on the Wii) and even the non-exclusive rights to animation.

this doesnt quite break down what happened really and is very light on details , however it could of been an xbox exclusive but it didnt .

Insomniac first of all have always been one of sony's babies in terms of quality games , they wanted to become bigger and wider and not tied down so partnered with MS with sunset OD which was a sort of beta for spidey anyways and other comic book games , but also it wanted to be its own franchise and be a games as a service model where the game would expand over years, getting a bigger map, the map would change, new events would occur, the servers would always be live and just keep growing, i think there was meant to be a TV show at some point and in game you would have live streams from the devs and events hosted by them all hosted on the MS platform and their servers.

The agreement was MS would support them financially ,the online side of things would be promoted by MS and the marketing would be massive having events all over the world and events lead by MS, so insomniac were loving life and couldnt wait, they held their part of the bargain and MS......did not, they pretty much took the money and run and didnt support them at all, this along with the MS gaming crowd being very hard to please lead to no real marketing , it got some but not a full on viral campaign like they were promised and less than stellar sales, awesome game but the MS crowd and xbox crowd mainly come from a pc online background and have always stuck with the R6,CoD, forza,PGR etc when it comes to single player games they rarely get supported or a following, where as on other platforms single player games have always been the best experience. ....

So insomniac rightly got pissed off with MS and said fudge it then we will wait for the rights to revert and rumor has it now there is a sunset OD 2 coming to ps5 with a remaster of the first ....

meanwhile this was going off as mentioned in this article briefly Marvel games were becoming a shit show, or just super hero games in general, they were usually cheap movie tie ins that gave you a weekends worth of play, very basic and poor in design and just not selling at all, then with the success of the arkham games, but more so the marvel cinematic universe marvel said look we aint doing this anymore , our products now have to be stellar and this includes gaming, so the only people who will get their hands on our products are those who are going to use it as a passion project and truly give gamers and fans a AAA product.

So they approached many companies and studios MS being one of them, when they approached MS they showed no passion for the character or the game, went in with a half assed attitude and wanted to monetize it and make a pretty vanilla game, then when they met with insomniac it was like christmas for them, they already had the framework and a solid library of games but more so everyone they spoke to just loved spidey and everything about his universe and they ended up pitching years worth of stories without even being asked , i think if you watch the interview they said they got sidetracked for 2 or 3 hours building up this world and vision without even really being asked the questions by marvel and it was like an instant romance ....

Then with sony in the mix insomniac and sony kissed and made up and said look we respect each other lets get together and make this something special and the rest is history, and its this attitude why sony is getting wolverine and MS is yet to get an exclusive because all they see is dollar signs with no real passion behind any of their projects.