Amazing sales.

It seems like Insomniac is trying to make the name “Spider-Man” synonymous with both Peter Parker and Miles Morales. Based on the first trailer, it seems like, while this is being called Spider-Man 2, it may actually focus on both PP and MM equally.

I also found it interesting how they announced the TOTAL sales, rather than separating SM 1 and MM. I feel like this is further intention toward the goal of making MM just “Spider-Man,” rather than “Miles Morales,” or the “Miles Morales version of Spider-Man.”

I think it is similar to Uncharted 4 and TLOU, MM is a kinda standalone spin-off DLC of S-M as Lost Legacy and Left Behind so they can count together (and certainly it done a lot better than the other 2 stand alones).

Well, to be fair, none of those games will be "locked" to one console either.

Okay... let's go back a little bit; the post you replied to said "Spider-Man should've not been locked to PlayStation to begin with," and since we are talking about the game being ported to PC, I fail to see what exactly made you think that he was implying that it should come to Xbox or Switch.

In that case you picked the wrong examples because, again, we are talking about games coming to PC here, and all of those games you listed are already coming to PC so they don't really apply there. Now, if you had said Bayonetta or Xenoblade Chronicles, I would have understood better.

Oh, and I do agree with you that it is all business and "feelings" don't matter.

I do remember, and they got nowhere near the level or sales of the Insomniac Spider-Man. How much did those sold on PC?

The PS1 era Spider-man seem to have move no more than 4M, so I doubt their PC versions were anywhere near the level that would give this confidence of 15M you are imagining. And the other Spider-Man before Insomniac sold even less.

But I do love to see how some try to make Sony having the rights to develop a single IP (and for all we know it isn't even exclusive right) of Marvel is worse than MS buying multiple publishers that used to make multiplatform games and now will remove most of their games from Playstation.

But they never lumped the sales of Uncharted 4 and LL or TLoU 1 and Left Behind together and announced the sales as just “Uncharted 4 sales” or “TLoU sales.”

This whole argument against CGI is ridiculous. The original person complained about Sony having SM exclusively on PlayStation consoles, but the argument is really unfounded. Sony brokered this deal and helped foster SM ps4 from inception to finish, so they can do what they want with it. 

And pretending that what MS has done is anything but far worse than what Sony’s done with SM is bananas. MS keeps buying multiplat studios that have been making games for PS for typically decades JUST so they can keep those games off of PS. And the money isn’t even coming from MS’s game division; it’s coming from the $100bil+ of cash that $2-trillion market cap MS has sitting around from its non-gaming cash-cow divisions. So when you’re talking companies that can compete with MS’s level of cash, this is a game only MS, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook can play. It’s not even a fair fight with Sony. Yet our government allows it. 

That much is true. I can't even remember the last time they announce total sales for Uncharted as a series or if they ever announced total sales of TLOU series.