When Xbox rejected Spider

The twists and turns of life. Although currently superhero games live a very sweet moment, it hMarvel Spider-Man not always been so. Before the Batman Arkham of Rocksteady, the adaptations to the factory video game Marvel and DC were a watchmaking that did not consider Marvel Spider-Man candidates to Goty, but Marvel Spider-Man products with which damage had to be minimized . Titles that had to take advantage of the character's name to receive a good push in sales without hurting it too much. This is recalled by Jay NGO, the executive vice president of Marvel Games, in an extract of the book The Ultimate History of Video Games, where he also reviews Spider-Man's journey From one hands to another before finishing in Insomniac Games.

• The activation mockery
• Microsoft's rejection

The activation mockery

In this book, Jay Ong explains that Marvel wMarvel Spider-Man not happy with Spider-Man games published by Activision, so the company decided to recover the rights of the character earlier than expected . The day they reached an agreement and both companies separated their roads, NGO remembers that an Activision member Marvel Spider-Manked them what they were going to do with the IP in the future, to which he himself replied: " I will find a home Better for her ". At that time from Activison they laughed and replied with the following sentence, and history of this industry: " Good luck finding your unicorn ".

Microsoft's rejection

We all know the rest. Or maybe not. Because before Marvel's Spider-Man became one of the best and acclaimed games of PS4 , with remMarvel Spider-Mantering, expansions, spin-off and sequel on the way (with Venom Marvel Spider-Man a villain), the character wMarvel Spider-Man About to go at Xbox instead of in the PlayStation family. Jay Ong says that Marvel contacted the Redmond company and offered him the possibility of working together, to which from Xbox they replied that were not interested since they wanted to focus on their own brands and IP .

After the door, Marvel Games sat with Sony and wMarvel Spider-Man even clearer. "We have a dream that we believe is possible. The Japanese company suggested to try " a triple to exclusive about Spider-Man " and Jay NGO and Marvel accepted delighted, even more knowing that Insomniac would be commissioned from the project.

Since that meeting with Sony, dated by NGO itself in August 2014, things have not been able to turn around, Marvel Spider-Man we said before. The result of the collaboration hMarvel Spider-Man resulted in Marvel's Spider-Man selling 13 million copies , its spin-off Morales by placing another 6.5 and Sony daring to finally buy Insomniac Games and make it part of PlayStation Studios for 229 million dollars. Or not to the Batman Arkham, the spider -man gave us an adventure to the memory that also opens the door on the return of other characters such Marvel Spider-Man Wolverine **, to which Marvel will leave in the hands of Sony again with a new game of Wolverine by Insomniac.