Understood so it is just you showing your accute business accumen.

FFVII was hugely profitable for them though. 

This is more about Marvel flopping

Its not rocket science.

FF7 could have been even more profitable and could have made up the loses of Marvels Avengers.. but 

Instead they locked FF7 away to one platform for however long, decided to make exclusive content for the Avengers on PS4 which devalued all other versions of the game, and here we are, SE crying they didn't make a good profit on the Avengers.

Unwarranted timed exclusive content set the tone for this entire game and Squares sad face. It serves them right.

Its not rocket science.

FF7 could have been even more profitable and could have made up the loses of Marvels Avengers.. but 

Instead they locked FF7 away to one platform for however long, decided to make exclusive content for the Avengers on PS4 which devalued all other versions of the game, and here we are, SE crying they didn't make a good profit on the Avengers.

Unwarranted timed exclusive content set the tone for this entire game and Squares sad face. It serves them right.

I consider that unlikely considering how skewed the franchises sales have been towards playstation. More profitable? Sure, although we don't know how much sony paid them. Enough to make up for the loss of a Avengers failing? We'll never know. 

Avengers flopping on every platform including Playstation, tell us that the exclusivity deal for spiderman (if there was one as oppose to sony already having exclusive rights to the property) is not what caused the games underperformance 

I mean Im all for calling out unecessary money hatting and celebrating companies receiving "bad karma" but I also see them flopping with avengers as an unrelated to the topic. 

Its more ironic that the game Square tried to money hat DLC failed hard. I don't feel pity or remorse for them, just a simple facepalm to their business decisions as of late.

Also anyone expecting movie based games to be masterpieces is looking in the wrong industry. Companies rely heavily on the licenses and brand power over quality. Its nothing new in this industry. This concept has been going on for many decades.

Do you really think that that was the reason the game bombed? Man, I taught that people come to this site to get some actual industry insights, not to vent their frustrations, but it seems I was wrong.

I suppose Spider-Man for PS4 was a very bad game and your complains of it being locked to PS4 were then unecessary right?

Ill be curious to see why you think it was okay for Spider-man on PS4 to be a locked exclusive?

You tell me, do you think Spider-man is a masterpiece?

I also never said all movie based games are bad, i said don't expect masterpieces.

Yes Spider-Man on PS4 is a masterpiece. And it was ok because Sony paid for the whole development of the game. They were approached by Marvel, offered the deal and asked to choose a dev.