Marvel: Spider-Man PS4 Is Just The Beginning, We're Going for Truly Epic Games

For a long time, world renowned comic volume publisher Marvel stood on the sidelines in the gaming manufacture. Its coveted intellectual properties saw lilliputian use in recent years, with the exception of Marvel Heroes and LEGO Curiosity games, at a time when Marvel based comic book movies and Telly shows are literally booming.

That's all changing in the future, starting with Spider-Homo PS4. Marvel chose Sony and Insomniac every bit the partners for a triple A game and according to Jay Ong, Vice President of Marvel Games, this is only the beginning. Here's what he told Polygon at E3 2022:

Is [Spider-Man] a betoken of things to come? Oh, yes. Absolutely. And we can't look to tell the world well-nigh information technology.

One of the things we really focus on in terms of our new strategy is that we all believe that great games bulldoze the brand and nifty games are what our fans really deserve. The question is, 'How we can get there?' The thing we landed on is to exist really selective with who we partner with. Extremely selective. Right now I would say that out of every 10 opportunities we expect at, we maybe exercise one."

What we look at starting time and foremost is the talent level of partner. Are they world class in building the games we're talking near? They have to accept world-class talent. They have to be able to invest the resources to brand that talent sing. Equally of import is, exercise they have passion for the IP they're working on? Do they share the same ambition? Do they dear the grapheme? Nosotros look for passion, that comes through in the first 30 seconds.

One of our mantras is actuality; it'due south easy to brand a game with Spider-Man on the label, but it's much harder to make it truly authentic in a way that reflects Peter Parker, the character.

The good news is that Curiosity Games seems to take borrowed the incredibly high standard from Curiosity Studios. Gone is the era of movie tie-ins; if a game misses a film'southward release date, it's not going to exist a problem as long equally the filibuster makes for a better title.

We are admittedly obsessed almost [quality], that is our North Star. Nosotros e'er say 'Great is not good plenty. Nosotros're going for truly epic. In this mod day and historic period, that necktie-in model doesn't work anymore.

Things similar [games] y'all cannot under-resource. You can't not give the development time ... to do justice to the game. We recall, 'How practice we make the game improve? How do we help our partners make the game better?

Building these franchises, and building these characters [at Curiosity Games], this is that get-go big milestone from this team. This is a huge ambitious project.

Marvel Games too announced some other big project last year: a partnership with Telltale Games to develop a series of games. The first one should be available in 2022.