Sony's PC porting is accelerating: Spider-Man 2 will arrive on PC in January 2025

Marvel is always at Comic Con to announce new movies and comic books, but sometimes you get videogame news. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 - the Insomniac title released on PlayStation 5 in October - will be coming to PCs early in 2025, as announced today at New York Comic Con. It's coming out very early: on January 30, it will be available on Steam and Epic Games Store.

The PC specialists from Sony support studio Nixxes will help with the sequel, just as they did with the 2022 port Insomniac’s first Spider-Man. "We're excited to continue our collaboration and bring Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC with a range of enhanced features including enhanced ray-tracing, to take advantage of a wide variety of setups, configurations, and setups," Nixxes Julian Huijbregts stated in a release.

The PC port includes the full game, as well as several features that the PlayStation Blog lists in its post-release updates. These include New Game+, additional suits, options for time of day, screen reader and audio descriptions accessibility features, and more. The digital deluxe version will also include more suits, photo modes, and some skill points for your first few hours of play.

Spider-Man 2 features Miles Morales and Peter Parker taking on a variety of Spidey villains, including Venom. It was a huge hit on PlayStation 5 but its reported $300+ million budget also sparked a discussion about the out of control costs of AAA game production. This topic hasn't disappeared: former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden stated this week that the games industry relying solely on blockbusters was "a death sentence", as costs continue to increase and limit the opportunity for creative risk.

Maybe the rising costs are the reason why this PC port is arriving faster than others from Sony's exclusive collection. Here's how long it took to get its last big games.

The Last of Us Part 1 as a remake is a bit of a rarity (it was also a mess, unlike other Sony ports that have been consistently good barring a few issues). Spider-Man 2, however, is a lot closer to the two-year mark than other games. I wouldn't surprise if Sony brought that average down to a year or so as it continues to bring more and more PC games with an eye to recouping its huge development budgets. It works for us.