PlayStation 4: Marvel’s Spider-Man could also have become an Xbox game

Instead of on the Playstation 4, Marvel’s Spider-Man could have swung his webs on Xbox consoles.

Sony celebrated great success with the PlayStation first party game Marvel’s Spider-Man. The game could also have landed on Xbox consoles, as has now become known.

In the book entitled The Ultimate History of Video games, Volume 2: Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and the Billion-Dollar Battle to Shape Modern Gaming (NB Yes, it’s actually that long.) the past of the Marvel video games treated.

Ted Price, CEO of Insomniac Games, and Jay Ong, Executive Vice President and Head of Marvel Games, are also quoted.

In 2014, not only Sony but also Microsoft was approached by Marvel to develop high-quality games based on Marvel’s brands, Ong said.

Since Microsoft’s strategy at the time was to develop its own IPs, cooperation was rejected.

Sony, on the other hand, offered to develop a PlayStation 4 exclusive Spider-Man game to be developed by Insomniac Games.

Activision owned the rights to develop games based on Spider-Man in the 2000s. According to Ong, the publisher was contacted and the contract terminated.

If you look at Sunset Overdrive, you can see the potential for a Spider-Man game. But Insomniac had previously only developed its own IPs. Which was cause for concern, as Price is quoted as saying.

“Insomniac’s ability to develop games based on existing intellectual property may have been a cause for concern. In the past, the studio has created intellectual property rather than building on other companies’ ideas. In truth, other companies have adapted Insomniac’s intellectual property.”

According to Price, however, they got along well with Marvel and placed great trust in the developer.

“We knew very early on that there was chemistry between us and our colleagues at Marvel. At the same time, the Marvel team has been fantastic in trusting us to develop a new story…developing a new take on Peter Parker and exploring the mechanics of what Spider-Man could be in a modern game.”

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