The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Briefly Available on Xbox One, Despite Indefinite Postponement

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Briefly Available on Xbox One, Despite Indefinite Postponement

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Lee Bradley

Well this is a bit strange. The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which was supposed to be indefinitely postponed on Xbox One, briefly popped up on the marketplace and some players have been able to download it.

Although the Xbox Games Marketplace listing has now been removed, it was up long enough for people to grab it. Indeed, you can watch The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in action on Xbox One now, over on this dude’s Twitch stream. It hasn’t blown up his console yet so that’s good, but it's certainly not the prettiest game.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 delay on Xbox One was revealed earlier this month. Publisher Activision said, “We want to inform you that we are revising our release plans for ASM2 on Xbox One. When and whether ASM2 is released on Xbox One is TBD.”

So what the hell is going on? We have no idea. Clearly though, someone in the Xbox Marketplace team is getting shouted at right now.

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  • I love it when stuff like this happens..
  • This is just funny.
  • Im watching the stream just now and the game doesnt look very good. In fact it looks last-gen and less fun to play than Spidey 2 on the original Xbox
  • its still up there to download
  • Its one ugly looking game
  • Bizarre, can you still unlock achievements in it?
  • Some poor bastard is getting fired for sure. I wonder if they will tell us the real reason why it was postponed. How can a game made with multi platform in mind have a version so bad they try to bury it and not have the same problems on other versions? Doesn't give me confidence in the other versions either.
  • Still available to download. https://store.xbox.com/en-US/Xbox-One/Games/The-Amazing-Spider-Man-2/b0c4e193-1a5c-4530-9933-4400adc3f16b
  • Any chance I can access a download link from my phone?
  • Sorry, posted without seeing the link. Sadly the page isn't there on my phone
  • Well, watched this for a bit… the graphic with the shocker fight… the 'shocker blast effect' looked like ps2 standard >_< long load times, horrible user interface, just blah. Not seen anything game breaking yet, I'd like to see a comparison between the ports of course to see how bad this game is to not get a proper release. Bit of a fuck up for sure putting it up atm, someone's gonna be in deep shit for this with how its been pulled from everywhere.
  • I'm staring at it right now on my xbox one in the store...and the Watch Dogs season pass....it's still a month before the game launches and they have the pass up already
  • Pre ordered already for bonus skins! Love dat black suit spiderman! But seriously kill the bitch that messed up lol.
  • this just annoys me more that I cant get it
  • Still up as of right now. There is even a tile ad for it in the store app. Dunno if this matters, but I live in the US on the east coast. $59.99, 9.89GB.
  • 9gb, yup, it's the 360 game with some additional software filtering.
  • They even have 5 challange achievements up
  • So in other words the game was completely made for Xbox One to the point it even went to publishers like Microsoft to be put on a ready for distribution queue but the developers fucked up and forgot to tell Microsoft to pull it because it's shit?
  • Found it. Too bad it's not on the UK place... good have made it free aswell. Oh well
  • Activision, get your shit together.
  • Yet more evidence that Sony had the game purposely held back on the XB1 to make it look like it was a developing issue.
  • Its still up here and also has challenges :)
  • That link is geo blocked for USA but if any of my fellow UK folks still want in it is not too late as I have found a way for us to get it now :-D What I did was tried the xbox.com link posted by iBuzz7S while connected to a USA vpn (virtual private network) and the page loaded up successfully! I signed in to my account and when you hit buy it now, you will have to add another card. I added my credit card, what I did was enter my actual street address but on post code I entered a random zip code and the state of the zip code in the state box. I managed to get it accepted and payment confirmed!!! Downloading it right now on my xbox one :-D
  • Still up on the US marketplace as of now $59.99
  • I recknon it's a licensing issue since the Movie is a Sony movie.
  • I would buy it but, idk if it's actually worth the $60 it's more of a Rental for me.
  • I picked it up.
  • Still on the Marketplace
  • Watching a guy streaming it on Twitch, looks identical to the 360 version honestly.
  • @25. That would make more sense if it wasn't available on the 360.
  • How much is this in GBP?
  • Still up, installing now.
  • @30 Sony's competition doesnt lie in the 360 anymore. It might just be that Microsoft only has license to put it out on the 360 and not the Xbox One.
  • That's what I thought... The Xbox One/PS4 versions are just the PC version, but cost $10 more.
  • https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/461142151267495936
  • Guys, I just bought it on the marketplace for xbox one earlier this morning the game is actually pretty good its fun not bad at all im happy this game wasn't cancelled or delayed till July this should keep me going until Watchdogs!! *Heads up its still available to download as of 10:13AM est time.
  • Sooo Major Nelson doesn't even know what's going on with this game? Would be nice if Activision made any kind of comment. I'm curious, if nothing else.
  • I've tried paying but it keeps getting rejected
  • I just went on the marketplace. It's still up there. Downloaded it and currently installing (2%)
  • lol @21 and what evidence would that be?
  • @21 Sorry dude, you're crazy. Do you think Sony Pictures, the division that controls the film, and has virtually zero involvement with games would do this? If they cared about such things, they'd just keep the license in-house. Seriously, attack their actual conspiracy, the parade of fanboy stoking because they have hardly any games or media contrActs to keep the actual content train alive with. You don't have to make things up.
  • Do you HAVE to get it from the website or can you get it from the console market place?
  • I should add, that changing stores can get your console banned, and that Microsoft has the power to disable your illicit acquisitions at any time. Remember Strider?
  • Even Activision has no idea: http://www.activision.com/games/spider-man/the-amazing-spider-man-2 ATM it's still not coming out for the One, but you can free roam on that console's version. Gold.
  • it's definitely weird. I was just looking at it at 3:10 pm central time. At one point it said it was 59.99 and then at another point it said unavailable where that price was before. Then I backed out and came back in and it said 59.99 again. Needless to say I bought it before it disappeared again! :D
  • I picked it up with no problem. It never disappeared from the market place well at least not for me it didnt.
  • Why does Gamestop list this $10 cheaper for the 360?
  • Basically evidence that the One can play all our old arcade games and on demand games that we have purchased over the years. If this is a Multiple system game and it looks like a Xbox 360 game on the One than why can't they do the same with our libraries? Rip off m$ that is trying to hide behind their superior tech. I love Xbox btw, but they better get with the program on how to make us happy with our long term purchases.
  • Oh, and it's still up for sale on Live. As of east coast this time 10 pm ish.
  • I picked it up on 360 with two movie tickets and dlc costumes. GameStop
  • Tuesday 9:45pm - Still up on the X1 store for $60 in Missouri, USA. Kind of angry since I bought my 360 version today. Dont want two copies of the same game. Hope my local gamestop is willing to help me out here. Good luck to everybody trying to swing next gen style.
  • ADDING TO MY ABOVE COMMENT: Just checked the gamestop website and they have Spider-Man 2 available on May 8th. I believe just days ago they had a release date of July 1st. So there is something going on here. And yes Im talking about the disk based Xbox One game, not just digital download. So mad! Yet very happy!
  • cant find a uk download, but if i purchase this through the US sight xbox.com and download it will i still be able to play it, im sure i read somewhere they had abolished the region free stuff and not sure if digital works the same
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