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[Draugoth]

Xbox is not allowed X-Men games until 2036, according to illegally breached Insomniac Games materials

Documents leaked after Insomniac Games was hacked indicate that the studio has an exclusive license on most X-Men games for the next several years.

www.windowscentral.com

• According to the agreement between Marvel, PlayStation, and Insomniac Games, no X-Men games (not developed by Insomniac) can be announced by Marvel until Dec. 31, 2035, meaning there will not be an X-Men game on Xbox before that time.
• Insomniac Games has not officially commented on the breach.

Insomniac Games, the PlayStation studio responsible for games like the Marvel's Spider-Man franchise, was hit by a ransomware attack recently, with the hackers dumping out over 1.7TB of studio files. These files include personal documents of employees, as well as Insomniac Games' plans for future titles, corporate strategy, financial information, and more.

Part of this includes the license details for Marvel's X-Men, which Insomniac Games seems to have ironed out as part of working on the already-announced Marvel's Wolverine. According to the terms, which Windows Central has viewed, Insomniac Games is given full license to work on X-Men games through Dec. 31, 2035. Until that time, Marvel cannot announce any new X-Men games for consoles, Windows PC, or Cloud gaming services.

 

[angrod14]

Not sure Xbox will be around in 2036.

 

[cireza]

That's an insane exclusivity period honestly. Sony is going to milk the license to death.

 

[Bernoulli]

Poor windows central

 

[Heisenberg007]

"Competition is good for the industry."

 

[Eimran]

Maybe it I'll come to game pass.

This morning I would have said impossible, but now people are playing the game on PC before it even released on PS5. So here we are.

 

[RoboFu]

I’ll be dead or dying by then .. nice!

 

[jm89]

Xbox will be full third party by then anyway.

 

[Sony]

To think this is all because of Marvel wanting Spidey in the MCU. Damn.

 

[Ar¢tos]

After they turned down Spider-Man and now being in 3rd place, it's not surprising a deal like this was made.

 

[Majormaxxx]

Not sure Xbox will be around in 2036.

I am with you on this but...

I can see series X-2 in lets say 2028. And then in 2036 we will still be in X-2 gen...

 

[Godot25]

This leak is hilarious because some PlayStation fanboys on Twitter were claiming few days ago that they know that Blade will be multiplatform because Disney is requiring future games with use of Marvel IP to be multiplatform

 

[Cynical_Aries]

 

[JackMcGunns]

"Competition is good for the industry."

It’s pure hypocrisy

 

[SmokedMeat]

Thank God. I was worried Sony would run out of third person adventure games.

 

[Mownoc]

The deal seems to mandate that Sony make at minimum three games and the numbers are given for if Sony choose to do a 4th. Basically 3-4 games between 2026 and 2035 will release. Wolverine and Marvel's X-Men are the 2 we know about.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Gotta secure those exclusives. It is what it is.

 

[Sanepar]

Not sure Xbox will be around in 2036.

It is easy for playstation as a platform not be around than Xbox tbh

 

[Heisenberg007]

The deal seems to mandate that Sony make at minimum three games and the numbers are given for if Sony choose to do a 4th. Basically 3-4 games between 2026 and 2035 will release. Wolverine and Marvel's X-Men are the 2 we know about.

IIRC, the deal is for 3 games: 1 Wolverine game and 2 X-Men games.

 

[crackajack]

let's hope they use it better than the Star Wars and even more the James Bond license has been used in the past decade.

 

[Woopah]

I imagine this applies to Switch and Switch 2 as well.

 

[veterangamerUK]

How will Xbox users cope without generic bland Marvel paint by numbers cookie cutter games?!

 

[Bond007]

Nobody gave a shit about an Xmen game till now.
Atleast they are building it from scratch. They arent just buying a studio

 

[jm89]

How will Xbox users cope without generic bland Marvel paint by numbers cookie cutter games?!

By playing redfall of course.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Nobody gave a shit about an Xmen game till now.
Atleast they building it from scratch. They arent just buying a studio

They are also not taking away an already developed game for the competing console, something Uncle Phillip has been doing as of late.

 

[Punished Miku]

Sony will be making the games so they will naturally be exclusives. At least this way we are all promised that Nintendo and MS 1st party wont be wasting teams on this.

Where it hurts is smaller 3rd parties that try the occasional game like MvC, whatever that switch Tecmo X Men game is, and Midnight Suns. Hell might even include mobile. All that is gone. Oh well. I dont usually play those but theyre mostly taking the license from 3rd parties which is kind of new.

The headline says "Xbox" isnt allowed but thats really not it. No one is allowed but Insomniac, even on PS. This is more like EA locking all 3rd parties out of FIFA and NFL.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Beg Sony to fund MvC4. Sony has Evo, so it would make sense.

 

[JackMcGunns]

Nobody gave a shit about an Xmen game till now.
Atleast they building it from scratch. They arent just buying a studio

They didn't just buy Insomniac? the studio that's developing the game "from scratch"?

 

[SHA]

Not sure Xbox will be around in 2036.

That's too personal for Sony to make such claim, good luck with that.

 

[SHA]

2036 the year of indie games entering the aaa league and become mainstream.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Gotta say its really nice to see every word in the thread title spelled correctly for once.

Crawl before you walk right Draugoth

 

[Tsaki]

Neither is Nintendo.

 

[Horseganador]

Leaving Xbox out of Marvel X-men until almost 2040, gaming won.

 

[GHG]

It’s pure hypocrisy

You didn't understand that reference one bit did you?

 

[StealthGoblin]

They didn't just buy Insomniac? the studio that's developing the game "from scratch"?

If you don't know the difference then you are the clown. Sony have been funding Insomniac for most of their existence.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

This leak is hilarious because some PlayStation fanboys on Twitter were claiming few days ago that they know that Blade will be multiplatform because Disney is requiring future games with use of Marvel IP to be multiplatform

but it will be.

 

[Mr Moose]

They didn't just buy Insomniac? the studio that's developing the game "from scratch"?

Yes, meaning they aren't just buying a studio that's already making it.

 

[Godot25]

but it will be.

 

[adamsapple]

So it ... ‘made financial and strategic sense' and leaving out PlayStation Xbox didn’t feel “overly exclusionary”​

 

[Shin-Ra]

How will Xbox users cope without generic bland Marvel paint by numbers cookie cutter games?!

By playing Redfall and Starfield?

 

[balls of snow]

Easy. Ms buys marvel from disney.
Checkmate atheist.

 

[analog_future]

Glad I'm on PC nowadays.

All this paid exclusivity bullshit can get fucked

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Microsoft bought Zenimax and Bethesda you really thought Sony wouldn't retaliate?

 

[Bond007]

They didn't just buy Insomniac? the studio that's developing the game "from scratch"?

Bought in 2019- and Insomniac has worked under Sony primarily prior. (2nd Party Studio)
Regardess- its still a new game from "Scratch" that isnt being taken away from anyone. The clown is you bud

 

[Mownoc]

IIRC, the deal is for 3 games: 1 Wolverine game and 2 X-Men games.

IDK if there is information other than this slide that states a 4th game isn't going to happen but the licensing agreement slide does state a "provisional 4th title" under commitments. Suggesting that the final amount could either be 3 or 4 but the 4th wasn't set in stone yet.

 

[//DEVIL//]

and people blame MS for buying stuff. It's because Sony keeps doing this shit and trying to lock Xbox out of everything if they can till it die. MS decided to play the same dirty level but.... on a MS level.

 

[yurinka]

The deal seems to mandate that Sony make at minimum three games and the numbers are given for if Sony choose to do a 4th. Basically 3-4 games between 2026 and 2035 will release. Wolverine and Marvel's X-Men are the 2 we know about.

In some of the roadmaps appeared the third game, which was a second X-Men game planned to be released around that time.

I imagine this applies to Switch and Switch 2 as well.

It does apply. The document mentions these games Insomniac X-Men games (including Wolverine) will be released on PS5 and PC, and forbids Marvel to license X-Men to other people for console/PC/streaming games.

 

[Mr Moose]

and people blame MS for buying stuff. It's because Sony keeps doing this shit and trying to lock Xbox out of everything if they can till it die. MS decided to play the same dirty level but.... on a MS level.

'Spider-Man' came from Xbox turning down a game deal with Marvel

Head of Marvel Games Jay Ong told PlayStation they could "beat 'Arkham'".

www.nme.com

Blame MS, they turned Disney/Marvel down. After the success of Spider-Man of course they'd want to do more with their other IPs (Wolverine/X-Men/Blade).

 

[Darsxx82]

Microsoft bought Zenimax and Bethesda you really thought Sony wouldn't retaliate?

Or MS bought Bethesda and ABK in response to this type of Sony deal using its position as market leader??

and people blame MS for buying stuff. It's because Sony keeps doing this shit and trying to lock Xbox out of everything if they can till it die. MS decided to play the same dirty level but.... on a MS level.

elementary dear watson!

 

[SplunkyMunkey]

and people blame MS for buying stuff. It's because Sony keeps doing this shit and trying to lock Xbox out of everything if they can till it die. MS decided to play the same dirty level but.... on a MS level.

Those are just ips there not studios. As much as I love Sony to buy t2 or EA there not Microsoft buying publishers. And besides Microsoft could of easily done the same thing if they wanted to they have the money and they just simply refused the offer