FreedomEclipseThat press release.... All i can think of is when Sony were against the Microsoft/Activision buy out because of platform exclusivity when it came to CoD. Meanwhile Sony: "Come play Spider man 2, exclusively on PS5.:)"

FreedomEclipseThat press release.... All i can think of is when Sony were against the Microsoft/Activision buy out because of platform exclusivity when it came to CoD. Meanwhile Sony: "Come play Spider man 2, exclusively on PS5.:)"

kinjx11LGBTQ spider is more like it

64KConsole exclusivity needs to die. It is silly at this point with so many billions and billions of dollars to be made by launching on PC and both major consoles.

sepheronxI disagree. Mainly because exclusives gives a reason to purchase the console and creates a form of competition. Forces the other companies to attempt to come out with games that can compete.

But I am unsure what everyones fixation is on Spiderman. It appears that all releases are the exact same to me.

Guwapo77I can't wait for that to come out, the first one was freaking stellar!


Spiderman is a first party studio... its a tad different. CoD is made buy a third party studio and a game that has been on Playstation for a couple decades.

64KThere are reasons to buy a console but exclusive games shouldn't be one of them. Console exclusivity is archaic thinking and just needs to go away and die. From a business perspective console exclusives don't make sense anyway. Some say that the exclusives do make sense because it gives gamers incentive to buy a console but both Sony and MS say that they don't make much profit on selling the console unit. They make the big profit on selling the games. So, sell the games on PC and both consoles at launch and make even more profit.

Sony owns the rights to Spiderman 2 through Playstation Interactive which owns Insomniac Games and they have full control over pricing even if it isn't a PS exclusive.

64KThere are reasons to buy a console but exclusive games shouldn't be one of them. Console exclusivity is archaic thinking and just needs to go away and die. From a business perspective console exclusives don't make sense anyway. Some say that the exclusives do make sense because it gives gamers incentive to buy a console but both Sony and MS say that they don't make much profit on selling the console unit. They make the big profit on selling the games. So, sell the games on PC and both consoles at launch and make even more profit.

Sony owns the rights to Spiderman 2 through Playstation Interactive which owns Insomniac Games and they have full control over pricing even if it isn't a PS exclusive.

pbupmEveryone kept saying that spider man was great and worth buying a play station for. once it released on pc i bought it and gotta say i was disappointed.

its a ubisoft game with towers , only thing different is that it has spider man in it.

pbupmEveryone kept saying that spider man was great and worth buying a play station for. once it released on pc i bought it and gotta say i was disappointed.

its a ubisoft game with towers , only thing different is that it has spider man in it.

GunShotYour **opinion** is definitely your own and no one's opinion should be **forced** upon you to please theirs or anyone else's opposition but to compare any Spidey's titles to any Ubi/AC's titles, though... uhm... I'm pleased to meet you and I hope your travels were pleasant and welcome to... Earth!

sepheronxwhat kind of stupid post is this?

He said that people told him how good it is and he thought it was mediocre at best. Which it is. I guess if PS5 has no games then yeah, I guess it is considered a masterpiece.

But he didn't say he was forced or anything. Or forcing others about his opinion. If he isn't allowed to share it, then what is the point of being here? want it to be your own echo chamber?

64KThere are reasons to buy a console but exclusive games shouldn't be one of them. Console exclusivity is archaic thinking and just needs to go away and die. From a business perspective console exclusives don't make sense anyway. Some say that the exclusives do make sense because it gives gamers incentive to buy a console but both Sony and MS say that they don't make much profit on selling the console unit. They make the big profit on selling the games. So, sell the games on PC and both consoles at launch and make even more profit.

Sony owns the rights to Spiderman 2 through Playstation Interactive which owns Insomniac Games and they have full control over pricing even if it isn't a PS exclusive.

pbupmEveryone kept saying that spider man was great and worth buying a play station for. once it released on pc i bought it and gotta say i was disappointed.

its a ubisoft game with towers , only thing different is that it has spider man in it.

GunShotIt's not different. There's no difference in Sony's **exclusive** handcuffed Spidey titles (other than shameful greed) than Sony's purchase of Bungie.

Spider-Man's games, and the character's appearance in many other titles, has been around for decades, outside of Sony's paws.

No, what you are doing here, IMO, is excusing one company's evil nonsense in favor for your most favorite brand it seems.

Vayra86Dude, Sony has built a Playstation EMPIRE on exclusives and you're saying there is no business case?

I think this is a matter of perspective :)

I've said it a million times, exclusivity of content is perfectly normal, fine, and happens in markets all over the place. Any company that has any kind of IP (Intellectual Property), practically has an exclusive bit of content. Another way to put it is, that every product that has any sort of 'unique selling point' is in fact an exclusive for the company producing it.

The facts are, Sony produces a machine, a piece of hardware, that enables gamers a specific way to access content. That on its own is a USP - the whole ecosystem is. Obviously this includes content. Similarly, look at Nintendo. It produces a console with specific input options and portability, so games will cater to that. Again, exclusive content all over the place.

The PC is the odd one out here. We've also heard the 'exclusive bad' argument wrt Epic. Its the same pile of nonsense. The market decides whether EGS survives, and its clear their exclusive deals might backfire on them - but it hasn't yet, and without them, EGS would have no single unique selling point, forcing itself to compete on price with a much larger Steam, a battle that is lost to begin with.

Can we pretty please drop this absolutely nonsensical argument for good now? It doesn't make sense, it only does if you have the isolated perspective of a gamer that wants to buy all the things without buying all the hardware to play it. Its absolute bullshit. On PC, you can simply download EGS. Not a single piece of content is 'excluded' from you - you're just going to get forced into a purchase and guess what, Sony loves it when you buy their hardware. No business perspective. Lmao.

'No Exclusives' do you know what that leads to? No creativity, because the content is never used to be system seller - simply because it's unable to. Sony's first party 'exclusive production studios' have been releasing more unique content than any others. This isn't a coincidence.


Never quite understood the whole Marvel thing. I just can't help but laugh at its ridiculousness, it was fun when I was 12. See one superhero you've seen them all...

Vayra86Dude, Sony has built a Playstation EMPIRE on exclusives and you're saying there is no business case?

I think this is a matter of perspective :)

I've said it a million times, exclusivity of content is perfectly normal, fine, and happens in markets all over the place. Any company that has any kind of IP (Intellectual Property), practically has an exclusive bit of content. Another way to put it is, that every product that has any sort of 'unique selling point' is in fact an exclusive for the company producing it.

The facts are, Sony produces a machine, a piece of hardware, that enables gamers a specific way to access content. That on its own is a USP - the whole ecosystem is. Obviously this includes content. Similarly, look at Nintendo. It produces a console with specific input options and portability, so games will cater to that. Again, exclusive content all over the place.

The PC is the odd one out here. We've also heard the 'exclusive bad' argument wrt Epic. Its the same pile of nonsense. The market decides whether EGS survives, and its clear their exclusive deals might backfire on them - but it hasn't yet, and without them, EGS would have no single unique selling point, forcing itself to compete on price with a much larger Steam, a battle that is lost to begin with.

Can we pretty please drop this absolutely nonsensical argument for good now? It doesn't make sense, it only does if you have the isolated perspective of a gamer that wants to buy all the things without buying all the hardware to play it. Its absolute bullshit. On PC, you can simply download EGS. Not a single piece of content is 'excluded' from you - you're just going to get forced into a purchase and guess what, Sony loves it when you buy their hardware. No business perspective. Lmao.

'No Exclusives' do you know what that leads to? No creativity, because the content is never used to be system seller - simply because it's unable to. Sony's first party 'exclusive production studios' have been releasing more unique content than any others. This isn't a coincidence.


Never quite understood the whole Marvel thing. I just can't help but laugh at its ridiculousness, it was fun when I was 12. See one superhero you've seen them all...

64KExclusives are bad. They are anti-consumer. It's off topic but EGS has already been judged for their anti-consumer practices by gamers and are an abysmal failure. 4.5 years later with their timed exclusives and barrage of free games they are still not considered anything even approaching a worthy opponent of Steam and EGS is barely profitable. What Sweeney is doing is using profits from selling Fortnite microtransactions to prop up his failed store. That is a warped business model. It's Sweeney's personal grudge against Steam that keeps this farce going. At first it made sense from a new business venture perspective to lose money to try to promote EGS but now it's just sad.

The bottom line is that Sony would make far more money by releasing on both platforms and PC at the same time. Just ask MS. They figured it out. There are tens of billions of dollars to be made by releasing on PC.