I love Spiderman. One of my favourite games of the gen but Disney could just have paid to have it made without the middleman. There's nothing that couldn't have been done on PC or the other consoles now or in the future.
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John Drake joins Disney at the new VP of Business Development and Licensing for Games
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I love Spiderman. One of my favourite games of the gen but Disney could just have paid to have it made without the middleman. There's nothing that couldn't have been done on PC or the other consoles now or in the future.
Like I said, Disney doesn't have a ton of involvement with Marvel licensing. Either way, I don't expect another Versus game until well into next-gen. I think Capcom's done with new fighting games for the remainder of this console generation. We're just too close to the end.
Money just doesn't solve everything and automatically give you a good game.
Spider-Man as it exists now wouldn't have happened without Sony.
License us some more Star Wars games please. I'd be fine with 'indie' titles too, not every game needs to be a AAA money-sink
Someone please reach out to Disney/Marvel and get the X-Men licence please.
And actually try to make a great game with it.
And actually try to make a great game with it.
I mean of course it's Disney, and it's Star Wars, anyone thinking that Disney didn't have to sign in triplicate and give two thumbs up to make sure shit went through on that project should be banned from ever commenting on any news story ever again.
Yeah cause Disney wouldn't spend then money. Hopefully they will in the future and just cut out platform holders.
This doesn't make sense. The reason it got the budget and support it did was predicated on it being a first-party title for Sony.
I believe they're referring to Sony's involvement beyond funding it to help make Spider-man the game it was.
Drake is absurdly highly regarded by just about everyone I know about portfolio & partner management. What an amazing get for Disney - hopefully Sony had some idea of a succession plan in place. Huge congratulations to him, and I'm honestly surprised to see Disney making smart moves like this so soon into their next foray into games publishing. Exciting times!
Yeah it's pointless, because this was already addressed 12 months ago
Like I said, that would fall on Marvel Entertainment, not Disney.
I wonder how the licensing works, if a game takes 3-5 years to make if he could start finding devs and builing a roadmap now to start putting games out right away when the deals expire.
They lost the team that help them with the success of the PS4. Boyes and the indie team were a huge loss for them.
Marvel had their independence regarding game licensing even when John Vignocchi held said VP position, so I doubt that it'll change much on the Marvel side of things unless we get another Disney Infinity-esque crossover. This will probably mostly impact Disney & Star Wars.
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Johnny V was Vice President of Production at Disney, which is why he got laid off when they shut their studios down. At Nintendo, he's Head of 3rd Party Publisher and Developer Relations.
so they'd be working together if they did MUA 4?
I think you mean at least some of the peeps who (at the very least) helped PlayStation at a very critical point in its existence? A lot of the goodwill people have towards Playstation is the direct result of stuff those four at least had their fingers in. Yeah, their departures have also coincidentally coincided with Sony now slowly over time putting out more of a... lets say, Classic era (or even early PS3 era) Sony vibe? It's honestly hard to describe. Between them seemingly killing off PSX and not turning up to E3 they've clammed up in a way that is a little unusual even for a console generation transition.
So does this mean internal teams again or just licensing out their [massive number of non-Star Wars IP] to developers?
Either way, give me more Tron, and Turok if they still have the license for that. And Indiana Jones. Pay Ford whatever he wants to do voiceover, just get it done while he's alive.
Either way, give me more Tron, and Turok if they still have the license for that. And Indiana Jones. Pay Ford whatever he wants to do voiceover, just get it done while he's alive.
Hell yes. I love disney but hate how poorly they've treated their games division. Having someone so well versed in games should hopefully change things for the better.
Disney Infinity is dead, but bring back some cool crossover in the same vein without the toys since toys to life are dead now.
Disney Infinity is dead, but bring back some cool crossover in the same vein without the toys since toys to life are dead now.
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Please John, license out a new original Indiana Jones game. Use Ford's likeness and with a good voice actor soundalike. And for people saying Uncharted, there's only one real Indy out there and that other series doesn't have the ability to use whips.
I'll even take a Double Fine developed sequel to The Fate of Atlantis.
I'll even take a Double Fine developed sequel to The Fate of Atlantis.
They already tried this several times before and they failed, this is why they decided to take different approach. And with Spider-Man it worked extremely well for them.
Lucasfilm controls this, not Disney.
Drake is not going to be able to help make your Lucas or Marvel dream games a reality.
