The Spider-Man games have sold incredibly well for PlayStation since Sony snapped up the rights to the character in 2014, but things could have been very different.
Marvel previously had a deal with Activision to publish games based on the web-slinger, but after years of poorly received titles, Marvel sought a new home for their superhero.
It has emerged that Microsoft turned down the offer to partner up with Marvel to produce games based on Spider-Man; an offer that has sold over 25 million copies for Sony.
Executive vice president and head of Marvel Games, Jay Ong, had meetings with Sony and Microsoft after parting ways with Activision in 2014.
Ong said that when the deal was made to walk away from Activision, the company enquired "what are you going to do with this IP after you get it back?", which Ong replied: "I’m going to find a better home for it.”
According to Ong, Activison’s reply was: "Good luck finding your unicorn."
Per Ong, Microsoft wanted to focus on its own IP at the time and passed on the offer.
Ong recalls a meeting he took with two executives from Sony in August 2014, and the rest, as they say, is history.
“I said, ‘We have a dream that this is possible, that we could beat Arkham and have one game at least and maybe multiple games that could drive adoption of your platform."
Ong was right on the money, as 'Spider-Man' has sold exceptionally well for PlayStation since launching in September 2018.
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