New rumours suggest that Sony has signed timed exclusivity deals for not just in-game content like Spider-Man but whole games.
With fans still upset about Spider-Man in Marvel’s Avengers it’s been suggested that Sony has also signed up other major games as exclusives.
The news that Spider-Man is exclusive to the PlayStation versions of Marvel’s Avengers has resulted in quite the backlash for Sony and Square Enix, and that’s despite everyone knowing of Sony’s existing relationship with the Spider-Man licence.
You can only imagine the internet outrage if Sony announces timed exclusivity deals for entire games, but that’s exactly what Kinda Funny co-host and former Game Informer editor Imran Khan has suggested will happen.
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Speaking to Tim Gettys on the latest instalment of GamesDaily, Khan suggested that, ‘There are games that are widely accepted as multiplatform that Sony is locking up for a little while’.
The two began by discussing the Spider-Man situation, with Gettys suggesting, half-seriously, that Sony should’ve just signed up the whole of Avengers as an exclusive.
Khan then replied by saying that, ‘There are things you will be shocked to find out that Sony is money-hatting. They are locking out, for timed exclusivity, of like, ‘Wow, that is a game that you’re choosing?’ Not because it’s bad but because it’s huge’.
Money-hatting is a term used to describe the money paid to third party publishers for exclusive or timed exclusive deals, with Khan implying that the deals will be announced in ‘a couple of months’, i.e. before the launch of the PlayStation 5.
There was no hint as to what any of those games would be, but they did use the example of Rise Of The Tomb Raider, which was signed up by Microsoft as a year-long timed exclusive (and which subsequently underperformed at retail and was generally resented by most gamers).
What Sony might have signed up this time is a mystery but it’s presumably not anything that’s out this year, or which people might already have pre-ordered.
It also doesn’t seem to be Resident Evil 8, as that was announced at Sony’s first PlayStation 5 reveal event as a multiformat game, but the implication from Khan is that the deals are for games of that magnitude.
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