Sony Says It Wasn't Trying To Be "Misleading" With PS5 Spider-Man: Miles Morales Reveal

PlayStation's top boss has said that the company was not trying to be "misleading" with how it announced Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The game's announcement trailer during the recent PS5 showcase positioned the game as an all-new Spider-Man title starring Miles Morales, but a PlayStation executive later referred to it as a "expansion" to the PS4 Spider-Man game. Developer Insomniac Games subsequently stated that Spider-Man: Miles Morales would be a standalone game.

It was an unquestionably confusing series of events, and neither Sony nor Insomniac have fully detailed what kind of game Spider-Man: Miles Morales will be. But for Jim Ryan, he is stressing that the game is something PlayStation fans should feel excited about.

"I can safely say that we would not effectively lead the next-gen portion of the show with something that was either trivial or misleading," Ryan told GameSpot sister site CNET.

Eagle-eyed fans noticed that some of the locations in the Spider-Man: Miles Morales trailer appear to be from the PS4 Spider-Man game.

Bloomberg reported that Spider-Man: Miles Morales is not an expansion or a remaster of the PS4 game but it is also not a full-on sequel. Instead, it's described by the site as a "brand-new, standalone game similar in scope to Uncharted: The Lost Legacy."

Sony's EVP head of European Business, Simon Rutter, likened it to an expansion that uses an upgraded version of the original.

"There's a substantial Miles Morales component--which is the expansion element--but also within the game as well there's been major enhancements to the game and the game engine, obviously deploying some of the major PlayStation 5 technology and features," Rutter explained.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales, whatever kind of game it ends up truly being, will be a launch title for the PlayStation 5 this year.

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