Marvel Comics is the company that created superheroes like Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man and several others that have appeared in video games. They are currently owned by Disney.
Somehow I doubt this spells the end for marvel. However, as a person who only cares about Disney because of Pixar (because everything else they have can pretty much go to hell), I doubt this will spell anything good for Marvel's future.
It's too unpredictable right now to get upset, whatever long lasting effects this buyout will have I don't think were going to see it anytime soon. (WHICH IS A GOOD THING.)
My main concern, as is everyone's, is that Disney stays far and away from major decisions regarding how Marvel runs itself. A "G" rated X-men sing-a-long is not my idea of a fun time. Let Marvel be Marvel. It looks like from early reports this seems to be the case. People tend to forget that Disney owns a lot of things. As PenguinDust said, they are the #1 media conglomerate in the U.S.
From Kotaku Lowell Singer, Disney's senior vice president of investor relations
"While we have been steadily moving in the direction of video game integration, we don't rule out the blend of licensing and self-produced and distributed video games.
"As these licensing deals expire we have the luxury of considering what's best for the company and the products."
What's good for the company, and more importantly for the products, is a collaborative effort between Marvel and variety of good game studios. I don't have to be a suit to tell you that the more different creative takes their are on a property in the video game industry, the higher chance of experimentation and success there is. Not all Marvel titles in the past have been AAA masterpieces, (They CAN do better: Most have been problematic in regards to the classic problem of fitting a game development schedule to a movie development schedule.) but for the most part we've had surprising success with the likes of Raven's Marvel: UA and more recently X-men Origins.
The concept of moving all Marvel game properties to be made in-house at Disney disturbs me. We need to know more about what their long term outlook is.
This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:
Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along
with your edits. Make sure this is what you intended. This will likely
increase the time it takes for your changes to go live.
Comment and Save
Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other
Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll
send you an email once approved.
Log in to comment