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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
7 Mar 2022 Acquired SONY
“I think Sony could have licensed all the Marvel characters, but somebody was like, they're all kind of bad except Spider-Man.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 7 Mar 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- SONY
Transcript context
…Now it makes sense why the Spider-Man games are PlayStation exclusives, I always wondered that. I was like, what? Why is this not on Xbox? Pretty crazy. There's even something more nutty for another $10 million. I think Sony could have licensed all the Marvel characters, but somebody was like, they're all kind of bad except Spider-Man. No one cares about any of the others, which was kind of true at the time. No one really cared about Iron Man. They invented the MCU out of second-tier characters. Sony was like, no, let's just go get Spider-Man. Oh my gosh. This is like A Confederacy of Dunces here like who is more stupid than the other?…
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