Even though Disney doesn’t plan to assume or handle all of the publishing and developing duties related to Marvel videogames, the company believes the incorporation of Marvel will help it hit "critical mass."
"Overtime, on the videogame side, there will be opportunities,” Disney VP Tom Stagg said at a recent conference in New York (via GI.biz). “We've said that, but that doesn't necessarily mean that every videogame that has a Marvel or Disney brand will end up being just produced by us.”
"I suspect there will be a blend of license relationships and self-published titles, but at the same time we believe there's an opportunity there just in terms of our drive, driving ourselves to critical mass and having a broader base of properties with which to do that,” he said.
At the event, the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII Conference, Stagg didn’t mention if the company could reach “terminal velocity,” “absolute zero,” or “oscillatory motion” with the new Marvel properties in tow. He also didn’t mention Newton’s laws, permeability, scalar quantity, or even magnetic domain in conjunction with them either.
Stagg wasn’t saying anything we didn’t know before: Disney, at least right now, isn’t planning to take on every single Marvel game. They’re comfortable with allowing outside studios doing things with the various properties. But, Disney is planning to do stuff with the IPs. Enough stuff, apparently, to have some sort of significant effect on the company.
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12:20 PM on 09.16.2009
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I would gladly pay for a remake of the Duck Tales nes game!
Never owned an NES, but if that was anywhere near as good as that Donald Duck game on the Genesis then I'm down.
Y+B! TENDRIL BARRAGE!
Its so good even the Angry Video Game Nerd loves it!
It was better than Quack Shot <3
Marvel vs Disney vs Capcom? YES PLEASE.
I'd rather let a monster truck run over my balls.
Ok all joking aside there probably will be a Marvel world in a Kingdom Harts game and that wont be so bad. Could be cool. Battle a Sentinel, have Deadpool making fun of Goofy.
In all likely hood this will probably lead to something lame though and the Exec guy is just creaming his jeans over nothing. They tend to do that.
@Gene Eric
Read Watchmen(it's overrated but it's ok) and The Dark Knight Returns, and THEN come to tell me that they're much inferior.