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

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.

I agree with you on spider man 2 but not spiderman  2018 there was no history on spiderman gam even coming close to even 10 million not even 5 million. It's like botw while people expected success most did not think it would be a massive success.

Spiderman 2018's sales was less expected than 2, it's true, though even then I think it was possible to see the potential; no Spiderman game before that had had the full might of Sony behind it, and superheroes/Marvel were a lot more popular by the time 2018 rolled around.

Not that this diminishes its success, of course. 

BOTW is actually an interesting point of comparison because it too benefitted from a contemporary trend, in its case the open world/survival craze.