Crystal Dynamics havde nok ikke set kritikken komme, men naturligvis er mange fans blevet en kende harme over at en så afgørende karakter for Marvel-universet som Spider-Man bliver eksklusivt tilgængelig i PlayStation-udgaven af Marvel's Avengers.
Men de har nu alligevel forsøgt sig med noget der ligner et forsvar, og det sker via et interview med ComicBook, hvor studiechef Scot Amos slår fast, at det er ærgerligt at fans hænger sig i den ene eksklusive ting, når der nu er så meget andet på vej.
When it comes down to choices of where and what Spider-Man can be, that's a relationship question that PlayStation absolutely has the rights to, that as you guys know, with Sony's ownership there, and Marvel with Sony saying, 'Hey, this is something we can do. This is something we can do on this platform.'
[...]So we love the idea of being able to bring this character to the PlayStation players. As far as everybody goes, we just announced Hawkeye less than a week ago. We have two characters announced within a matter of five days, the future is bright. People will get fixated on one thing as opposed to, 'Oh by the way, you're going to have hundreds of hours of content and years of storylines coming ahead of us, and new worlds and regions, and new heroes," and more stuff we haven't even announced yet."
Det lader til at også Amos mener at Spidey kun kunne være på PlayStation på grund af rettigheder.