Marvel’s Spider-Man and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order have been gigantic hits for both Sony and EA respectively, and the success has encouraged Disney to “empower” more developers to leverage its enormous stable of intellectual property. Considering the company commanded an eye-watering 35 per cent of the film industry as of last year, it’s little wonder it wants to dominate the games industry, too.
“I’m here for one specific reason: to empower you to do really unique things with our [catalogue],” Senior VP of Games and Interactive Experiences Sean Shoptaw told an audience at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas this week. “We want to tap into the power of creatives across the industry. We want to dream big and look forward to all the things we can do together.”
Disney’s strategy thus far has been to license out its brands to different publishers and developers, so it looks like it plans to do more of that moving forwards – it may even potentially streamline the process. Of course, the key to its recent success has been picking the right partners and making great games – something it hopes will continue with Marvel’s Avengers and Marvel’s Iron Man VR, two titles which were delayed earlier this year.
[source hollywoodreporter.com]
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Hopefully We Can Get a Black Panther Game Someday
Epic Mickey 4K with an actual working camera, yes please. Plus a new Rogue Squadron, plenty Marvel games (not GaaS) and idk, an Indiana Jones game like Uncharted would be cool.
I like disney films, well the cartoons and stuff, but disney is slowly destroying the film industry, all their movies have the same generic formula. They have killed star wars already dont think i really enjoyed any of the star wars some were ok nothing amazing like the first 3. Then they started milking it with spin offs. Then we get pretty much superhero films every year, superhero tv shows i loved my films but these days i struggle to watch 5ish good quality films a year. i liked them in the beginning but there was so much coming out havent watched any of them since thor i think, So no disney stay away from games, 1 game every 2or 3 years fine but once they taste some sucess in the gaming market they will just start milking it too.
WE WANT THAT MONEY!!!
The only thing missing from his speech was "I have spoken."
But what they forget to say is that they’ll also take 99.9% of the revenue generated in the process.
Far too powerful Disney are!!
@nessisonett I'd want a new rogue squadron so bad!!!!!
@nessisonett I really want all those games now
They made Spiderman into Ironboy, wrecked Starwars, they claw everything and they put Home Alone behind a paywall.
@Flaming_Kaiser Spider-Man is following a popular comic arc, Star Wars has always been terrible, and Home Alone is a pretty moot point to bring up in 2020.
Disney has always had a rocky history in gaming though, but it's also depended upon the developers that handled the license. This is nothing new.
@Nintyfan Disney is why the IP rights stay with companies indefinitely. That was 75 years before got too love that US lobby. The only good thing in the new Spiderman movie is the suit cant stand this new Spiderman. Home Alone could been seen everywhere for years now they made it exclusive too Disney +. Starwars its like they just want too push the movies out so fast with terrible scripts. I love female leads but they push them in such a bad way. And Disney seems too buy up everything its dangerous we dont need another Google, Amazon, Apple and even Microsoft. Even with Nintendo making Publishers buy massive amounts of cardridges. But i have them to thank for their competition Sony. 😆
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