trying, and failing, to succeedBut the past few years have produced a few notable exceptions in 2018's "Marvel's Spider-Man" and 2019's "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order." Both games were rare smash hits for Disney characters.
Disney — the folks behind "Star Wars," Mickey Mouse, Disneyland, everything Marvel, ESPN, and hundreds of other iconic characters — instead licenses its incredibly successful properties out to other companies. It still makes mobile games, but Disney's out of the "big" game business; the stuff most people play on stuff like the PlayStation 4 and PC.
Notably, neither game was actually made by Disney — a company notorious for keeping a tight rein on creative control. "I'm here for one specific reason," Shoptaw said. "To empower you to do really unique things with our [catalog]." How did the world's biggest, most successful entertainment company completely fail at gaming? At the time,who explained what went wrong with Disney's video game initiative; Disney declined to comment.