Again, there’s a long history of the web-slinger on video games but we’ll start with the 2000s.įrom 2000 to 2014, it was Activision who had exclusive rights to publish Spider-Man games. But make no mistake, despite Spider-Man being a Marvel character, his big-screen rights very much belong to Sony.Īs for Spider-Man’s video game rights, well, that’s a little foggier, mostly because there’s been no major public announcement on the topic. It’s a long and complex history that was only further complicated with the character’s introduction into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
To be clear, Sony owns the movie rights for Spider-Man only. Many assume, based on the movies and 2018’s Marvel’s Spider-Man game (which released exclusively on PlayStation 4), that it’s Sony who owns the rights to the character.
It also got many talking about the video game rights to Spider-Man, and who actually owns them.