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UK: Spider-Man is fastest-selling game of the year
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My prediction is that someone is gonna chime in here confidently telling you that the movie rights positively had nothing to do with the gaming rights, as though they were in the room during the discussions.
Edit: just cos that's exactly what I got when I suggested this before :P
https://www.resetera.com/posts/10834857/
Well, I mean, should we just go with speculation? Or what a developer from Insomniac says what happened?
Even Sony/Shu told us this story. It had NOTHING to do with the movie rights.
Generally SE communicate on the sales when it's good. The only number we have is the steamspy number for the PC, it's no more accurate since the change on steam but he show between 50k and 100k.
Insomniac chose spider man from marvel . Had nothing to do with Sony movie rights .
Wtf? Lmao. The pics n gifs between puddle gate to gifs like this, it's been an amazing couple of weeks.
You would be surprised...lol.
Yes. Kudos, kudos, kudos to them.
lol.
And in the US. I've said before ppl haven't been paying attention this gen.
I feel posts like this kind of do a disservice to the devs. Still had to be a good game to do this well.
Exactly to all this.
Unless everyone is lying Spider-Man was only brought to the table after Marvel came to Sony and the Sony went to Insomniac and the developers themselves picked Spider-Man as the character they'd make a game about. They could have made an Iron Man or a Hulk game if they wanted.
I'm aware of that post by jstevenson. He states that it wasn't part of any other deal, sure.
I still find it hard to believe that if Sony were to play hardball with the movie rights and kept spider-man to themselves that Marvel would be keen to approach Sony to make a platform exclusive game.
Edit: but yeah, point taken. The history has already been written on this deal.
It's because they know Sony has talent. Via 1st party and 2nd party partners. If they wanted a crappy multiplatform game they could have stuck with Activision.
Jsteve said it himself.
They wanted high quality.
After seeing how Santa Monica implemented Kratos's Axe, they're the only ones I want seeing handle a Thor game unless someone can perfectly emulate their style. GoW was easily the best Thor game that released.
Have no idea. Never head him talk about it.
Lifetime? GoW did that in just one month and Spidey's launch is stronger. I think 9-10m is lock
Insomniac about to become Spidey factory, huh? Makes me wonder how much faster they can get a sequel out with supposedly New York being the main location again and a big amount of work and figuring out all kinds of things like the traversal already in place.
Congrats guys, fantastic game! Please make a wing-suit DLC for Spidey.
LOL u guys will clear 8 million by the end of the year . Congrats man .
I'm watching football (American) right now and just saw a badass commercial of gameplay that would make me go buy it right now if I didnt already own it.
Huge sales. I was expecting somewhere in the region of 110k (around NMS), especially with the Friday release. But I guess pent up demand for a new release after a very long summer drought, lots of hype surrounding a great licensed game that was of good quality and plenty of marketing combined just absolutely knocked it out of the park.
Anecdotal: A friend told me yesterday that in my town, in all the stores where he looked for the game, Spider-Man had run out.
Yup, I said it on Friday and before, this game is going to sell a loooooot of units, it seems to be insanely popular and all these anecdotes about people looking for copies and several people picking the game up add up. We're going to be seeing more threads like this pop up for other markets.
Hey! If you consider the whole population of Planet Earth, then it's a niche! Right? Gotta make that point somehow!
Just kidding, been playing it all day today, must've played like 8 hours already and I'm having a lot of fun with it! Congrats on the success!
Remember when someone on era said 3 mil ltd
Lol! That's funny
Anyways congrats to Insomniac and Sony. I think spidey is my goty so far. Narrowing out gow.
Yes please. Sony has a huge FPS shaped hole in their first party lineup right now and that would be a perfect fit. Can't imagine how incredible the game would look.
I've never played a Spider-Man video game, but I feel like I'm missing out by not owning it. Should I just fucking buy this shit?
Do it!!!! The combat the story and the swinging are god tier!
I've said it before but this game will sell 20+ million WW in its lifetime.
Congratulations Spidey!
Congratulations Spidey!
Good point, you're right. Even though there has been a bunch of games based on movie/comic franchises with some positive results, stressing your point, I guess the real success of a game like this comes down to a truthful representation of the mental image people have of a certain ip through e.g. comics and/or movies. Usually people want the game to capture that same feeling as a certain movie or a comic had, and that vibe maybe hasn't been that easy or possible to achieve since recently. It's so much easier to have zero expectations, but of course the game must always be of good quality.
I think we could see more of these quality games based on big franchises in the future. The companies owning these big IP's surely would have the funding down, and I guess that gaming as a medium is gathering more ground with every passing year and seen as a more and more profitable business to practice.
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