TOKYO — Nintendo and Sony have a lot riding on two new games released on Friday (Oct 20), “Marvel’s Spider-Man 2” for the PlayStation 5 and “Super Mario Bros Wonder” on the Switch.
That’s where the similarities stop: the two games on rival consoles and their target audiences could hardly be more different.Mario, the moustachioed plumber in a red cap created by Shigeru Miyamoto, revolutionised gaming in 1985 with “Super Mario Bros”. It was one of the first “side-scrolling” games allowing horizontal movement in an evolving landscape.
Blockbuster superhero movies in the 2000s led to the character headlining a series of games developed from 2018 by Insomniac for Sony, which bought the studio the following year.For the new games, Nintendo and Sony have chosen, as is often the case, radically different approaches. Sony meanwhile has spent heavily developing “Marvel’s Spider-Man 2”, its graphics pushing the PlayStation 5’s technical capacities to the max to enable Peter Parker and Miles Morales to battle Kraven the Hunter and other villains.
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