You can use old portals with the new Skylanders SuperChargers game

For the first time in years, players don't have to buy a new portal to play the new Skylanders game releasing this September.

Though there will be a new Portal of Power with Skylanders SuperChargers, it's possible to use portals from Giants, Swap Force and Trap Team with a digital version of the game.

Using a digital version will work similar to last year's tablet editions, giving players 'instant' access to new characters Hot Streak and Spitfire within the game so they can explore its new features.

Digital and physical editions are otherwise identical, according to developer Vicarious Visions, with all other figures old and new readily supported.

"You can make the single downloadable purchase and pay with your existing portal and your existing collection," president and co-founder Guha Bala told Digital Spy.

"We've figured out new technical ways of going further backward than Swap Force. If we go back to Giants, the technology changes substantially from Spyro's Adventure to Giants, so that's the one set of portals that we may not support – that's to be finalised still."