https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-02-13-disney-wants-developers-to-reimagine-its-ip-for-video-games

Good news from Disney for next gen consoles, we might get another marvel, Star Wars, Disney games in near future.

"...Speaking at the 2020 DICE Summit, the company's senior VP for games and interactive experiences Sean Shoptaw reiterated that Disney's focus when it comes to the games industry is in licensing out its IP.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Shoptaw told developers his role is to "empower you to do really unique things with our [catalogue]," adding: "We want to tap into the power of creatives across the industry."

He offered the two aforementioned titles as examples of the freedom games makers could have when working with Disney's owned IP, which includes Star Wars, Marvel and now various 20th Century Fox properties.

Marvel's Spider-Man by Insomniac Games has sold over 13 million copies, and is the fastest-selling first-party title in PlayStation history, shifting 3.3 million units in the first three days. The game reinvents Spider-Man and many of his enemies, and has even crossed over with the comics and Sony's Into The Spider-Verse movie.

The more recent Jedi: Fallen Order was one of the biggest selling games of last year, and is expected to soon reach 10 million copies sold. It was developed as part of the exclusive publishing deal with EA, and tells an original story set after the prequel trilogy.

In both cases, Shoptaw said an important aspect of the projects was original storytelling and developers "reimagining" established Disney-owned characters and settings.

Shoptaw invited developers to "come and play" with the company's franchises, adding: "We want to dream big and look forward to all the things we can do together."

We already know this. Theres inevitably going to be more Star Wars from EA including the sequel to JFA especially since its reaching 10 mil. Then theres Spiderman from Insomniac and Avengers from Square as well as Kingdom Hearts. Also Avatar which I believe Ubisoft is developing. The question is can Disney continue to churn out quality games from their IP's into next gen but of course that depends on the publishers they licence their IP's to.

The quantity needs to increase substantially. This pacing is so slow.

Dont know how to feel about this. They dont own spiderman so thats coming regardles. Never liked star wars. I think kingdom hearts reached its end. and that avengers game looks meh at best. But who knows, maybe some other dev can do what insomia did with spiderman. Would be kind of amazing to bring comic book style games. Inmagine a bunch of diferent games, done by diferent devs, each on a diferent marvel hero in a share world. The cinematic world is pretty much over, a game world would be just insane.

Disney's largest failing with Star Wars is the EA exclusive deal. There is still so much that can be done in Star Wars games, but EA isn't doing it. I'm not saying they should never be allowed to publish Star Wars games, but the exclusive deal should not be renewed. 

Fingers crossed that we'll get an open world Star Wars game one day. 

Honestly I'd just be happy with the KOTOR "Reimagining" for now.

Marvel/Disney share the rights to Spiderman. Hence why Marvel still makes comics, novels and merchandise based on the IP.

Sony owns the film/television rights.

Spider-Man took several years to even be greenlit. One of the main people who were part of the original pitch now works for Nintendo..and that was after years of being in charge of  Disney Infinity and then a Gearbox VP. John Vignocchi. Hoping it doesn't take several years of convincing this time to get a sequel going.

Disney has been allowed to get too big. There needs to be anti trust lawsuits again in USA. We basically allowed AT&T to reform and now they are bigger than when they were broken up. Disney should be forced to sell ABC/ESPN and many of the other entities they have gobbled up in the past decades.

Or we can just have these mega corporations all merge into one and become the holy all knowing commercialization God company.  Then we can all pray to it while we buy cheap junk that breaks within a year that we probably don't need.  We must all pray that our souls will be saved by the one true corporation.