Senior vice president Disney on games and interactive entertainment Sean Shoptau made a presentation at the summit DICE 2023 in Las Vegas, where he made an interesting statement: the company aims to attract more creative studios to develop games based on an extensive catalog of its IP.
“I’m here for one specific reason: to give you the opportunity to create truly unique things with our catalog. We want to harness the power of creators across the industry.”
Referring to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order from Respawn entertainment and Marvel’s spider-man from Insomniac gamesShoptau emphasized the importance of the original plot and the “rethinking” of what Disney characters and settings can be. Now Disney is inviting developers to their home so that they can find interesting series.
In 2013, Disney entered into an exclusive contract with Electronic arts for the release of console games under the Star Wars franchise, in which special success was achieved with the aforementioned Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Game sales have exceeded all expectations and now EA plans to sell 10 million copies of the Fallen Order by March 31, 2023.
The company has become another long-term partnership. Square enixDisney has been working with for almost two decades as part of the role-playing series Kingdom Hearts. The last part of the franchise, Kingdom Hearts III, was released last year and sold over 5 million copies, becoming the fastest-selling game in the series.
From the date of purchase 21st Century Fox At the beginning of last year, a performance at DICE Summit was the first place where Disney devoted the public to its plans for the gaming sector. Prior to this, the company moved away from developing its own games and focused on licensing other studios to use their IP.
“We want to dream more and look forward to what we can do together,” Shoptau summed up his speech during a speech to the DICE Summit audience.
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