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[The Fury]

Hiku said:

I don't believe we know who asked who. But we do know that it wasn't a question of Spider-Man originally,but any Marvel character.

The jist of the story as we know it is that a Sony exec was down at Insomniac one day, and asked Insomniac's CEO Ted Price if they would want to make a Marvel game. Price's reaction was "fairly neutral" as the studio had built a following on the back of original properties, he "hadn't really considered working on someone else's IP."

Once he relayed this idea to their developers though, they showed great enthusiasm at the possibility. ‘Are you crazy? Of course we’re going to work on a Marvel game!'

Marvel wasn't interested in having Insomniac work around a movie or comic tie-in either, they wanted Insomniac to create their own version of a character, and Marvel was willing to let the developer take their pick. "[Marvel said] 'Look, we've got a lot of characters. Pick a character that you guys think works for you, and then we'd love to hear your take on it.'"

https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/09/10/how-insomniacs-spider-man-came-to-be-ign-unfiltered

Interesting, thanks. Kinda wish Marvel would do this more often. Go to a well known studio or developer and offer them the chance to make a game. It benefits everyone, we get a game for popular characters, developer gets to make their sort of game and Marvel makes money.

X-men games used to be pretty regular thing. The dispute and Activision contract ending changed that as we haven't had an X-men game outside of 1 on mobile a few years ago. But with Spider-man and Marvel Ultimate Alliance coming back, maybe Marvel will be looking to get their licenced characters out there again as DC have been winning the gaming thing, even if Marvel were winning the films.

Last edited by The Fury - on 22 August 2019