User blog comment:Milomilk/Are they seriously giving Spider-Man the web shooting machine on his hands again?/@comment-238662-20111108113509

Because it is a reboot. In the comics he has web-shooters. By bringing them back they make it closer to the comics where Peter will show more of his genius that was looked over in Raimi's trilogy and it will distance the film from Raimi's trilogy so people see it as its own film.