Nirolak wrote:Marvel: "Many announcements to come" regarding new Marvel games and developers
Quick Summary:
- Marvel noted that they have announced "some" of their current projects, and that they have "many announcements to come" regarding video games.
- It's worth noting that Marvel seems to have collapsed their mobile, VR/AR, and console gaming oversight into the same branch, so some of these will be VR/AR and some of these will be mobile games, which they have zero new ones announced on either front.
- Marvel's VR/AR ambitions are to make more substantial games than you're seeing on the market right now.
- Their ambition these days is to make chart topping, major titles instead of just smaller titles that promote the brands. They point to Marvel: Contest of Champions as an example of that (along with some of their other successful mobile games), and are hoping titles like Spider-Man and The Avengers join them on the console side.
- Marvel now views games as a standalone, important pillar of Marvel instead of a side effort or merchandizing effort. He mentions it as being right after the pillars of Film and Television, as in not being as large as them yet, though growing in importance. I'm not sure if the exclusion of comics from this list was intentional.
- Marvel is definitely interested in games adding new characters and other things to the official Marvel lore, and points to Clash of Champions as a game that has invented new Marvel characters. He mentions the Spider-Man costume from Insomniac's game as another. He thinks that some day entire new Marvel worlds will come from games, but is less certain of that, implying that no project is currently trying to do that.
- It's worth noting that the location and context of this interview isn't mentioned, but that his comments make it sound like this is probably at a preview event for Spider-Man.
- Given that we just got a bunch of Knack press previews, I'm doubly suspicious this is from a Sony event where they showed Spider-Man.
- This interview was pretty guarded, presumably because it was explicitly one for release before press embargoes drop, but Jay teased that we'll be hearing a lot more about Marvel soon.
Source: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/makin ... 0-6449845/
'bout time too.
