With Spider-Man: Homecoming about to swing into theaters, the wall-crawler is clearly going through a renaissance of sorts right now. It's no wonder then that Sony has high hopes for Insomniac's Spider-Man video game for the PlayStation 4 and it sounds like they're banking on it to be a major hit with gamers next year.
60 million PS4s have been sold since it launched three years ago and President of Sony Interactive Entertainment America Shawn Layden now has his sights set on the 100 million mark, a number which he believes will be easier to obtain thanks to the release of Spider-Man.
"Well, like I tell my sales guys, the first 60 million is the easy 60 million," he joked, before adding: "To get to the next one, it’s about how do we grow the pie?…I think the biggest chance we have to broaden that pie is with a game like Spider-Man." A bold claim indeed, but one Layden elaborated on by explaining what makes Spidey so important to the company.
"Spider-man is probably the best known comic book character in the world and we can take that title – and the way that Insomniac has hit it out the park in realising that character in a way that finally Spider-man plays like you want him to play – I think we can bring people into gaming who may not be there yet through the power of that kind of character."
The PlayStation 4 exclusive Spider-Man is expected to be released in 2018, so stay tuned for regular updates!