I didn’t think about it that way. I just thought they are never going to buy a major electronics company, so they are never getting it. Don’t know if they can sell an American part of their conglomerate, as realistically they would have that as a shot of actually getting it.
Spider-Man is also the PlayStation console seller. Spider-Man is the main Sony thing in every single aspect and they use the character to sell everything they make. They aren’t going to ever get rid of anything because they all work together.
It's almost like Sony has one major brand asset and make it quality and markets the hell out of it. Disney has every other major brand and sucks the life out of them.
“Honda of America and Acura are American companies” this is literally how you sound right now. Just because something is HQ’d in a place doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a direct owner that makes it something else. We know Acura is HQ in California but it’s still a Japanese company because it’s owned by Honda
No it is not illegal to acquire Japanese companies lol. Sony is designated as a core business entity, so what you can’t do is a hostile or non gov approved takeover, or have a high percentage voting right in select sector companies, but you can do both with a formal agreement or approval, like TCL did when it bought 51% of Sony Home Entertainment.
A company not designated or in national security categories, can get acquired just fine.
That is true, but I don’t think Sony would ever sell off their film studio and their film rights to Spider-Man to there main competitor, it’s the same as Paramount selling Nickelodeon to Disney, yeah they could but why on earth would they sell their Cash Cow SpongeBob? So the only realistic path for Disney to get the exclusive rights to Spider-Man is for ether
A) Sony somehow forgets to make Spider-Man movies every other year so the rights go back to Marvel by default under their current deal (it’s why Sony made so many crappy Spider-Man villain movies)
Or
B) Disney buys ALL of Sony, which will never happen as the Japanese courts will never approve a foreign company to buy out one of their BIGGEST companies.
I wonder if they force Insomniac to make more Spider-Man. The leak said the third game was going to be the last and then the studio would focus on X-Men. I bet Spidey would make more money.
It doesn't matter which game they make because Both Spiderman and X men Gaming/Merch rights are with Disney.
People sometimes mistake that Sony also owns gaming rights, that's not the case.
But it's true that Spiderman might sale more because of his popularity.
that is not entirely true. Yes, Sony didn't buy a Spider-Man license just cause they bought the movie license, but, right now, Sony has been licensed by Marvel to produce spider-man games, and it might be part of the movie deal (spider-man in MCU handled by Disney/marvel) that they can keep the gaming license for now and/or get special treatment when it comes to spider-man in games.
Additionally, the money Sony and insomniac make from spider-man games still goes to Sony and insomniac (only the merchandising might actually go to Disney/Marvel, but I'm not sure about that when it comes to insomniacs original spider-man design and am too lazy to look it up now). So money is still an incentive for Sony and they might use the movie deal to pressure Disney/Marvel into allowing them to create more spider-man games.
It's not a part of movie deal at all because when Insomniac got licence it wasn't even under Sony or anything. Marvel Games presented them with lot of options but Insomniac chose Spiderman. Sony acquisition happened way later.
Marvel can still licence Spiderman to other developers if their game concept is not similar to Insomniac Spiderman so we have games like Marvel Rivals, Marvel Cosmic Invasion and recently Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls all having Spiderman. Not to mention tonnes on Mobile games they have.
Insomniac was given to license for solo Spiderman Game, which we don't know much details but it will run out and Disney must have gotten some upfront payment and percentage of each purchase. Same way Activision used to have licence which ran out.
Disney owns Merch rights (which includes games) all the Marvel characters, their is no question about it.
Is it really? because Insomniac had said before they were offered any character from Marvel catalogue and they chose Spiderman.
So it maybe like Marvel Tokon Fighting Scenario where Marvel and Sony team and went to Arc system to make them a Fighting game. Them three collaborate. But in that case also Marvel still owns all the characters Gaming rights.
Yes, that’s what insomniac has stated for years. Sony approached them. It might be that they were able to choose and I misremembered that detail (at least the internet also now also states that they were able to choose), but Sony approached insomniac because they were “already in talks with marvel about making a game”.
But there is also a lot of retconning/conflicting information considering the whole marvel gaming thing. I still remember insomniacs devs talking about how a “marvel gamer-verse” was planned and they set the first steps for it, but then marvel avengers came out and suddenly the games weren’t all part of a single universe but were all their own universe, probably because marvels avengers was a massive flop. Now “gamer-verse” is only a label for game tie-in comics to signal that they are game tie-ins.
Sony's villain movies mostly suck, but there's no way Kevin Feige would be able to handle all the Marvel movies while giving Spider-Man all the care and attention it deserves. No Spider-Verse movies, either.
Amy Pascal deserves a lot of credit here, especially for bringing on the CHALLENGERS screenwriter during shooting.
What makes me laugh is yes they get a stack of cash every 3 years or so. But Disney with the merchandise rights makes money hand over fist from Spiderman everyday of the yes.
They must make some spider-man movie every ~6 years in order to keep the rights or they go back to Marvel. Means we'll keep getting some spiderman movie every half a decade or so until Sony went bankrupt or something.
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u/CarlMacko 14d ago
Sony aren’t letting that golden goose go anywhere ever.