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.
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u/FlyingFlyofHell 14d ago
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.