PlayStation's top boss has said that the company was not trying to be "misleading" with how it announced Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The game's announcement trailer during the recent PS5 showcase positioned the game as an all-new Spider-Man title starring Miles Morales, but a PlayStation executive later referred to it as a "expansion" to the PS4 Spider-Man game. Developer Insomniac Games subsequently stated that Spider-Man: Miles Morales would be a standalone game.

It was an unquestionably confusing series of events, and neither Sony nor Insomniac have fully detailed what kind of game Spider-Man: Miles Morales will be. But for Jim Ryan, he is stressing that the game is something PlayStation fans should feel excited about.

"I can safely say that we would not effectively lead the next-gen portion of the show with something that was either trivial or misleading," Ryan told GameSpot sister site CNET.