In a report fromUS Gamer,Marvel’s Avengershasn’t made back its development costs after launching this past September.“In addition to the amortization of the game’s development costs, another significant factor associated with [Marvel’s Avengers] was the fact that we undertook a major advertising campaign at the time of its launch to make up for delays in our marketing efforts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Square-Enix president Yosuke Masuda in a quarterly meeting. “There is a certain amount of development costs still to be amortized in 3Q, but we want to recoup it by growing our sales going forward.“First announced in 2017,Marvel’s Avengersreleased this September to mixed reviews, includingDualShockers' own Ryan Meitzler. Shortly after launch, Square-Enix released a patch for the game which fixedover 1,000 bugs and issues. That being said,Marvel’s Avengersstill remained on top asSeptember’s best-selling gameaccording to NPD. As Masuda points out in the call, Square-Enix hopes to improve the game’s sales to increase its profitability.
More recently, Square-Enix announced that Kate Bishop would be a new playable character starting on December 8.Other charactersreportedly coming include She-Hulk and War Machine. Additionally, Spider-Man will be added next yearexclusively for PlayStation players followed byÂClint Barton’s Hawkeye. The game was also supposed to release on next-gen consoles by the end of this year but it’s been delayed to2021. If you want to play it sooner, there are Black Friday sales for it including fromAmazonat $26.99.
Marvel’s Avengersis available now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, and PC. Next-gen versions of the game will release sometime next year. As more news comes out on upcoming content, we’ll be sure to let you know. You can watch a trailer below on Kate Bishop below.
