Spade said:
^^^ Yeah I agree with Criss. I'm also glad multiplat studios are working on Marvel/DC games. Very excited for Wonder Woman!
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I personally don't expect many more, if any, multiplat Marvel games going forward. The Sony games just performed so insanely well compared to Ultimate Alliance 3 on Switch and the 2 Square Enix Marvel games. Even though Guardians of the Galaxy was really good! Midnight Suns might do well for its genre, but when Marvel looks at the sales performance charts, it won't compare to Sony's Marvel games, and I expect they'll want to do business exclusively with Sony. Which might be coming to fruition already from that story I posted here yesterday.
There may be additional multiplat Marvel games at some point, just because of how long it takes for Sony to make a game, but I'm feeling doubtful nowadays.
I'm of the opinion that any licensed video game should never have exclusivity. I used to enjoy playing baseball games like MLB2K on my 360, but when 2K discontinued that series, I was screwed because the only other option was MLB: The Show on PlayStation. Now I'm fine, but for YEARS, I had no option and those who were casual gamers that may just like playing sports games and didn't bother to do any research found out the hard way.
Like, why can both Sony and Xbox players get to play the upcoming Suicide Squad, but only Sony players get to play Spider-Man and Wolverine?
There's millions upon millions of casual gamers that may see a licensed game advertisement like Spider-Man or MLB: The Show back in the day, and despite the PS logo at the end, may have accidentally got an Xbox thinking a game like that would be everywhere, or just didn't want to get a PlayStation. Either way, shoehorning people into gettin a specific console for a licensed game is dumb to me. Original IP exclusivity that originate in gaming is all fine and good like Last of Us, God of War, or Gears of War, but games based on sports, superheroes, etc. that are part of pop culture and are known and loved but tons of non-gamers, should be enjoyed by everyone physically possible. Regardless of what studio it was developed by. But that's just me.
Last edited by G2ThaUNiT - on 16 February 2022