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curl-6 on 23 January 2024
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zeldaring said:
curl-6 said:

Literally nobody called it niche, it's a multi-billion dollar brand.

The old games took place before superhero mania took off in the 2010s, at a time when software sales across the board were far lower than today, and didn't get the kind of push that AAA exclusives get nowadays, it's a completely apples to oranges comparison.

Avengers failed cos people were tired of live service shit. Spiderman by contrast is a regular AAA action adventure, one of the most popular genres in gaming. It selling well was as predictable as Mario selling well.

Many have called it niche for a video game franchise. This forum is pretty slow when it comes to traffic so basing everything on this forum when the discussion here is limited to like 10 people at best, and what super hero craze are you talking about? Batman sold cause the games were literally 10s.

Just seems weird to call it niche here if nobody on here was actually saying that. 

Starting around early 2010s, superheroes became an absolutely massive craze across pop culture with the likes of the MCU. This benefitted Spiderman greatly as both a popular superhero IP and a Marvel property.

I wasn't downplaying its success, just saying it's not really surprising, just like it wasn't surprising that Mario Wonder or Tears of the Kingdom were highly successful.