Grant Patterson writes:
"Market saturation. It's a boring phrase to describe a fascinating effect in economics, one where a good or service has become so ubiquitous and widely available that the amount of supply far exceeds the level of demand in any given market. This overabundance of product (and subsequent overabundance of market competition) usually spells doom for any good or service, and we just saw this in action yesterday with Disney Interactive and their Disney Infinity line of figures and related games.
To be honest, we all should have seen this coming. I did from the moment Infinity was announced."
The toys-to-life genre has died out, but the concept of Disney Infinity should live on in another genre since it provides a wild crossover for fans.
There is a huge gap in the market at the moment. There aren’t many (if any) toys-to-life games available for the two consoles yet. A reboot or remake of the game would work so well, especially with Disney’s current roster of characters, films and TV shows.
Did Disney sell the rights to Activision? I never knew they had the rights to Disney Infinity.
They DO have the rights to Skylanders though.
Plus there's a financial reason every publisher gave up on the "toys to life" thing. So I doubt they'll revive any of them.
It wasnt Skylanders fault Activision squeezed the cow too hard.
"During its earning calls, Activision confirmed that Skylanders: Swap Force had made them more money than Call of Duty: Ghosts. Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg revealed the numbers, putting Skylanders at a whopping $2 billion in revenue after it sold 175 million toys.May 7, 2014"
"Skylanders Reached the Milestone of 250 million figures sold in 2015 and passed $3 billion made"
Is it possible Disney Infinity or other toys to games could return, but I'll be honest I really hope they don't come back.
These kinds of games are just another way for the game studios to nickle and dime you for every cent you have.
Disney Infinity was a fun game I could play with my kid back in the day. I still have it and the 100+ toys and yes, it works on PS5. But my kid is a teenager now and we've both moved on to more serious games.
Exact same thing here, we played Disney Infinity and Lego Dimensions. Both were great but are now just two big boxes full of stuff that never gets used.
We played Lego Dimensions, too.. and I still have all those toys. It also works on PS5.
Take a look at the rise and fall of Toys-To-Life games and see the magic it brought into everyone's home with games like Skylanders.
Crazy, you would think that having Star Wars and Marvel alone would print golden 100 dollar bills every second.
Here's the real truth: Some head honcho at Disney realized that they could make a killing by simply licensing out their IPs to garbage publishers like Activision for easy cash, and then raking in even more with royalties from said licenses, all with absolute zero effort on Disney's part. Even if Infinity was turning a profit, it was a profit that required employees and entire businesses to operate.
"Amiibo has added utility"????? compared to what? They def don t have added utility compared to Disney Infinity, Skylanders etc. They have the least "utility" of all the Toys to Live genre--- That does not mean they are doomed or will be the next in line to go away- but if they continue to be succesful it won t be for their utility to date
Long live Lego Dimensions !
Now LEGO Dimension will get Star Wars and Marvel