Spiderman PS4 is a beginning of an ongoing series with Insomniac and Sony.

[Chazore]

GOWTLOZ said:

Chazore said:

A Company tie like Sony with Spiderman isn't that S[ider-man was soly created by Sony, no that goes directly towards Steve Ditko and STan Lee. Sony merely own the rights to publishing a SPiderman Movie or game, they do not print and control the comics, so MS and Nintendo could easily do the same and buy somehting with their own amounts of wealth, it;s what Sony has done and hell it;s what DIsney has done with the entire Star Wars franchise.

Sony and Spiderman are related to each other, Sony has some sort of rights to Spiderman, which is why they could do this. MS and Nintendo have no ties at all to Green Lantern and Iron Man, so they can't just give Warner Bros and Disney some money and make an exclusive game.

Also Warner Bros has its own game publisher so they won't give someone else the rights to publish a game based on a DC hero.

EA are a big third party publisher and this is the kind of publisher that would get the rights to a superhero game as they can make multiplatform games. Activision had the license to Spiderman games but didn't use it well. EA managed to perform well commercially with Star Wars. Sony also allowed Marvel to makea  Spiderman film and bring him to MCU despite having the rights to Spiderman movies so this might be thereason for that.

Going by Spider-Man's history, Sony isn't tied to the hero itself, the only historical tie to him was made entirwely by money, not that Sony paid Stan lee and Ditko to create the hero specifically for their specific use and platform. It;s no different when Disney buys an existing idea from another company, the same way it didn't stop Sony buying the rights from Marvel and vice versa for Disney and Marvel along with other studios owning other heroes out there.

Having rights isn't rights to the original concept that someone else created, they only own the current image of a hero for a few markets, they never created him and aren't going to own him till the end of time. If you look at the entire history of SPider-Man, you can see a point where Sony very much handed over money to buy the rights, something which they never once created nor previously owned was bought from Marvel, the same way the other companies can buy rights, there is no special rite of passage or rule in the book where no other company other than Sony can buy a hero. 

Warner does what it wants, but that isn't to say it will never ever make deals nor never ever sell a hero, it's far too easy to say nothing never ever happens, but without seeing into nor being from the future we are not even certain of said proclamations, unless someone here is from the future there is no way to say they never ever will do this or that, just look at companies that started around the 18th or 19th century that are still around today, centuries ago they were doing something entirely different compared to what they do today, time changes practically everything.

Really owning the rights to a hero isn't only something Sony is allowed to do, we should really do away with that narrow pov, despite explinations, that doesn't explain nor set the future results in stone.