Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Launches October 20 for PS5 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 June 2023 / 2,203 Views
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Insomniac Games announced Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will launch for the PlayStation 5 on October 20.
Pre-orders for the game will open up on June 15 at 10:00 am local time at participating retailers, PlayStation Store, and PlayStation Direct. Pre-orders include an early unlock Arachknight Suit for Peter with 3 additional color variants, an early unlock Shadow Spider Suit for Miles with 3 additional color variants, an early unlock Web Grabber gadget, and 3 skill points.
The Standard Edition of the game is priced at $69.99 / £69.99 / €79.99 / ¥8,980 MSRP. There will also be a Digital Deluxe and Collector’s Edition. The Digital Deluxe Edition is priced at $79.99 / £79.99/ €89.99/ ¥9,980 MSRP and includes the game, pre-order incentives, as well as 10 unique suits (5 for Peter, 5 for Miles), additional Photo Mode frames and stickers, and 2 additional skill points.
The Collector’s Edition is priced at $229.99 / £219.99/ €249.99/ ¥31,790 MSRP. It includes a voucher for the Digital Deluxe Edition, as well as a Steelbook case, and an extraordinary, high-quality 19-inch statue featuring our Spider-Men battling fan-favorite Venom.
Read details on the game via PlayStation Blog below:
Everyone at Insomniac Games is thrilled to announce that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will launch on Friday, October 20th, 2023, only on PlayStation 5. After the amazing fan reception for Marvel’s Spider-Man in 2018 and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales in 2020, the team has worked tirelessly over the past few years to make this third installment in the franchise the sequel you have been waiting for. Built from the ground up for PlayStation 5 console, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will unlock the power of the console with better visuals, faster web swinging (and web wings!), 3D Audio*, and near-instant character switching. We speak for all our collaborators and friends at PlayStation and Marvel Games, when we say that we cannot wait for you to get your hands on this incredible single-player open-world experience.
*3D Audio via built-in TV speakers or analogue/USB stereo headphones.
In Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, players will get to experience Marvel’s New York as both Peter Parker and Miles Morales. As you saw in the PlayStation Showcase last month—the main storyline of the game will have you take control of both Spider-Men at different points of the campaign. In the open world, you will be able to switch nearly instantly between them as you explore Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. Both Spider-Men have stories and missions in the world exclusive to each of them.
As you can see from our box art, Peter and Miles are both key protagonists in our story. The iconic red background returns, but darkness surrounds as fan-favorite villains like Venom, Lizard, and Kraven threaten them and Marvel’s New York. You will also notice that each character’s arm represents their new abilities: Peter with the symbiote, Miles with his evolved bioelectric Venom powers.
In addition to our launch date, we are excited to walk you through your options for experiencing Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. Pre-orders will open on June 16th, 2023 at all participating retailers, PlayStation Store, and PlayStation Direct. Pre-Orders will go live at 10:00 AM local time on June 16, 2023. Fans who pre-order any version of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will receive an early unlock Arachknight Suit for Peter with 3 additional color variants, an early unlock Shadow Spider Suit for Miles with 3 additional color variants, an early unlock Web Grabber gadget, and 3 skill points to get you started!
You will see the beautiful box art adorning the standard edition of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 for $69.99 / £69.99/ €79.99/ ¥8,980 MSRP. But that is not all! There will be a Digital Deluxe and Collector’s Edition of the game!
The Digital Deluxe edition of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 ($79.99 / £79.99/ €89.99/ ¥9,980 MSRP) will include the game, all the pre-order incentives, as well as 10 unique suits (5 for Peter, 5 for Miles), additional Photo Mode frames and stickers, and 2 additional skill points.
Additionally, we are excited to announce that these 10 suits were designed by guest artists across comics, films, and PlayStation Studios! The featured artists are Kris Anka, Julia Blattman, Sweeney Boo, Anthony Francisco, Raf Grassetti, Jerad Maantz, Joel Mandish, Darren Quach, and Victoria Ying!
For our hardcore Spider-Man fans out there who want an incredible Spider-Man collectible alongside Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, we have just the edition for you while supplies last. The Collector’s Edition ($229.99 / £219.99/ €249.99/ ¥31,790 MSRP) includes a voucher for the Digital Deluxe Edition, as well as a Steelbook® case, and an extraordinary, high-quality 19-inch statue featuring our Spider-Men battling fan-favorite Venom. Fans can order the Collector’s Edition on PlayStation Direct in those select markets (United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Austria, Spain, Portugal) starting at 10AM local time on June 16th, 2023 (insert appropriate links).
For those countries that do not have PlayStation Direct, be on the lookout for more information on how you can secure a Collector’s Edition in your region.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Sony looked at that Starfield release date and sensibly decided to stay away from September.
I doubt that, Spiderman is an established ip with the first game selling over 33m, starfield is new and both games are on different platforms.
The first game and Miles Morales sold 33mil combined.
That’s up to 42.5M now
When was that exactly? I must have missed that.
No answer? I guess you made it up, since I couldn't find anything about it and 33mil was only last year.
You're correct, my bad
Starfield is going to dominate the gaming news cycle for a couple of weeks around release, if it's a decent game. If it's a great game or a disaster, it will dominate the news cycle for even longer. The Spider-Man game won't get nearly as much coverage if it launches in that window
Sure lol
Sony's senses were tingling to stay away from Starfield month 🫣
Not many enthused for sub-30 fps starfield.
Got 3 days to find out how well this comment aged
Because devs dont hide everything wrong with the game, plan the shows to every little detail to make the games look better than they are , sometimes even making fake demos like cyberpunk devs did. You will find out in the release not in 3 days. In the days it will be gotg , perfect, the most hyped thing after cyberpunk 2077.
Phil stated we’ll find out what framerate options we’re going to have at launch for Stafield. That’s why I stated we’ll find out in now 2 days.
Even if it will have a 60fps performance mode, still not a guarantee it will be a stable 60fps lol
Star who?
"Star-Lord, man. Legendary Outlaw"
It will sell like hotcakes
This definitely could've been at the Sony Showcase lol, but glad there's a release date now! I'll look forward to the inevitable dedicated SoP for the game to see more.
Lol, they were saving it for Geoff.
Yay? xD
This will easily have a bigger launch than Ragnarok.
Over 11 months after gow:r that is a long wait between 1st party games, hopefully the release schedule is more consistent next year.
But there was the release of psvr2 and horizon call of the mountain in between.
Also MLB The Show...
That was 1st party, but also multi-plat.
I meant ps5 games, psvr2 is its own thing.
I can agree with that sentiment to an extent. But it is still a ps5 game (call of the mountain) just with the additional requirement of psvr2.
But I can fully agree that more would be better. Perhaps another showcase this year...
I will say though: few people actually care about exclusives coming from first, second or third parties. As long as a game is exclusive (if they even know about that) it is a purchasing argument and a big boon in the ps5 library. And you cannot ask for a much bigger title than ff16. Comes out in 2 weeks and fills the hole between Call of the Mountain and Forespoken in the beginning of the year and Spider Man 2 in the end(ish) quite nicely.
Aside from the fact that Forspoken was as big as a turd of a game as Redfall
XD Yeah, aside from that of course 😆
Psvr2 costs more than a ps5 and a very small fraction of ps5 owners will ever own one. It's irrelevant for the vast majority of ps5 owners. It's similar to the sega cd, those games aren't considered genesis games they are considered sega cd games
That's fair, yes, Call of the Mountain is not as much a ps5 game, as it is a psvr2 game that just runs exclusivly on the ps5.
I hope sony can make something similar to resident evil in the future. Not in tone, genre, setting, story, etc. Just to make some hybrid games, playable for flat screen and vr. Otherwise situations like this might get more common with first party being streched too thin across two platforms. But I don't know. Perhaps this also just a fluke dry spell for a billion other reasons.
Exactly my sentiment. The library is here, just not only from first party. And who knows, ff7 remake and rebirth, ff16, forespoken: if square is satisfied with sales, perhaps they will put a ring on it in the next few years.
I don't want to tempt fate, but hopefully it's stable at launch. I'd wait until November or December, or even Q1 2024 if it meant the game was stable.
Let's fcken go Spidey,
That's fcken hype!
It's probably going to be huge for PS5 but I just can't care about those heroes games anymore.
Used to love spider-man back on PS1 and PS2 where they were average, now that people tell me they are great I just don't wanna play them.
Maybe the one with Wolverine will get some hype on me...
