Marvel's Spider-Man is "not likely" to come to Xbox, Insomniac Games says, despite Helldivers 2 and Marathon breaking containment

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Insomniac Games says that the chances of Peter Parker swinging onto Xbox consoles are low, but the hit-making studio also said the same thing about a PC port of Marvel's Spider-Man once upon a time.

After one online fan's now-deleted tweet asked for an Xbox version of the open-world superhero romp, Insomniac simply replied saying a port is "not likely" to happen. Marvel's Spider-Man first came out as a PS4 exclusive in 2018 and has since been remastered for PC and PS5.

The studio's not revealing anything that's too shocking. After all, Marvel's Spider-Man is a game published by PlayStation Studios primarily as a way to get people to buy PlayStation consoles from Sony, the owner of PlayStation. So, no brainer.

Still, hopes for an Xbox port weren't – and probably still aren't – absolutely in the bin. Keep in mind Insomniac Games is also the same studio that firmly said almost nine years ago that the game would "never appear on Xbox or PC" because it's "a permanent PS4 exclusive publisher by Sony Interactive Entertainment," and that comment, err, hasn't really aged well.

There's also the fact that some Sony-owned games have broken containment in recent years, namely with Helldivers 2 and the upcoming Marathon on Xbox Series X|S, which would've been sort of unthinkable a generation ago, though PlayStation seems more willing to share its multiplayer toys with its biggest frenemy than its single-player blockbusters.

For now, Insomniac Games is set to continue its superhero universe with Marvel's Wolverine, coming sometime later this year, which is apparently a "darker and more brutal" game than you might expect from the studio. I guess it is about a rage-fuelled hairy man with claws.

Marvel's Spider-Man officially has its first working multiplayer mod, and it's probably the closest thing we've got to Insomniac's canceled Great Web project.