Spiderman Creative Director, Bryan Intihar has a message for those complaining about Spiderman exclusivity.

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VAMatt said:
This is nice and all, but how often do you hear a developer complain about the companies supporting their work? People generally don't want to bite the hand that feeds them. I don't generally hear people complaining about Microsoft or Nintendo micromanaging them.

Regardless, it obviously is good of any company to let the people working for them, or working on their behalf, have the freedom to do a good job.

Normally I'd entirely agree since I don't think any dev would, in their right mind, bash the ones paying to develop a game. However, given Sony's history of having a wide variety of top notch, high quality, unique games and exclusives I think there's some genuine truth to it. 

Almost everything on Nintendo is platformer or family friendly with very few exceptions. 

Almost everything on Xbox is gritty, realistic, or masculine with very few exceptions. 

But Sony...there's so many different genres and ideas that are native to Sony's console when it comes to exclusives. They get mascot platformers, dark fantasy, action oriented shooters, superhero games, platformers, action, adventure, racing, and a little bit of everything in between. They fund stuff like The Last Guardian and Shadow of the Colossus. They fund stuff like Spider-Man and InFamous. They fund things like Ratchet & Clank and LittlebigPlanet. No matter what you like or what you're looking for, Sony does it. I mean, look at Death Stranding! They basically gave Hideo Kojima a mountain of cash and said 'we're good, do what you want', and because of that we're getting something that, even to this day, we don't fully understand. It could be a generic clone of MGS, it could be something completely unique! We don't know! 

My point is, the variety and risks taken on Sony make me think that this quote is pretty sincere and not just licking the balls of your boss. If Sony was holding its studios in a vice grip, I think the output would be far more homogenized. I doubt any one company is actually smart enough to truly understand the entirety of the gaming landscape, especially not a huge corporation like Sony. I think the most reasonable explanation is that they trust their developers to make good games, and it's paid off in the end.