>Disney cancels struggling Infinity video game line
>Takes $147 million charge
>End of Disney as video game publisher.
JUST
http://archive.is/ENDZp
thank god, maybe they'll stop spending money for viral marketing here too
>Plastic on-toy gated DLC
It could only end in failure
>>337155967
they made shitty optimized games anyway
>>337155967
Wish this happened before Inside Out or Zootopia came out...
How would those games be like?
>>337155967
>The mouse can't into gaming
hehehe...
On one hand I've never played disney infinity and it didn't seem like something I'd enjoy anyway.
On the otherI always enjoyed Toybox Tuesday streams so I'm worried about those now.
>>337155967
It was a really neat concept but they had no idea what they were doing and couldn't understand that 'kid/family friendly' didn't have to mean simplistic.
Fucking awesome
So Skylanders prints a mint, and those Amiibo toys print money, but Disney, with the power of Star Wars, Marvel, and its vault can't manage to even break even doing the exact same thing these guys do?
How do you manage to NOT make money with Disney property, holy shit.
>>337155967
Does this mean no more movie games?
>>337155967
>>>/tv/
Keep your Brendan Fraser shit out
How about they go back to Capcom on their hands and knees and apologize for abandoning MvC
Official statement http://www.disneyinteractive.com/blog/update-disney-infinity/
>>337156401
No
>>337155967
Maybe now they license thier IP out again and we can get marvel vs capcom 4
I wonder if the people saying this is good news realize this doesn't mean they're going back to the capcom days of the 90's and more than likely now there's just gonna be fucking nothing involving disney in games beyond kingdom hearts and some mobile shit.
>>337156427
>MvC4 happens
>Roster are exclusively characters that appear in MCU and Street Fighter/RE
Simply put, it's just too spread thin of userbase. Most disney fans only care for one of a select type of movies they make. Making a product that encompases is just unecissary costs since users will tend to only care about a small segment of their physical dlc product line.
Welp, hopefully the guys behind Infinity can get jobs
Their business model was flawed, and their target demo are more likely to buy specific characters(Spider-Man, Darth Vader) instead of fucking Baloo. It was an interesting experiment for sure, even with the copycat Skylanders model.
>>337156338
Kids were already getting over sky landers and the infinity games offered little in the way of challenge, literally designed so 3 year olds could play them. Amiibos work on a wider range of games, although I am surprised they didn't draw more in terms of people buyingbig name characters just for the figure. Still, I got Venom, Rocket, Hulkbuster, Tink and Violet, I'm happy.
>yfw you see disney infinity at Goodwill for $5
I bought the vanellope fig and came on it
>>337156219
Jones being at disneyland is probably the best place to for him to hear the news.
>>337157113
Oh no...
They got a deal with nintendo to handle their games and toys
>>337155967
Good, all that shit needs to crash, leaving the greedy suits in high debt.
>>337156852
Not Rapunzel? She's so cute.
>disney infinity
who cares?
I honestly thought Disney infinity was making shitloads of money for them...
>>337157518
Didn't see tangled and her eyes are too big for her iris/pupils.
its okay I only wanted the Captain America one and got it you may now die Infinity
MICKEY MOUSE ON SUICIDE WATCH
I thought Disney had successful mobile games, are they done making those too?
>>337155967
>Nintendo's handful of iconic characters but mostly obscure Amiibo characters beat out the biggest animated movie, superhero and sci-fi series line up of all time.
Looks like the Toys to Life bubble has popped, especially since it felt like Infinity was the strongest of the available franchises
>>337156852
But Lego Dimensions is designed so that little kids can play it too.
Although it has the weird thing of being a kid game yet most of the franchises it uses are appealing to 18+
>Play to life bullshit with Marval characters and Star wars.
>Not making boatloads.
What the fuck? Maybe I'm biased since I've blown $1000 on amiibo's but seriously?
>>337157740
Those puzzle games cost fuck all to make and bring in millions.
>>337157828
Dedicated fans will always beat out apathetic consumers. That said the animal crossing Amiibos aren't doing so hot.
>>337157828
The entire sector is dying, including Amiibo. The fad is over.
What's Disney Infinity?
>>337157948
I actually think the figures are pretty good too. Stylized and designed around the limitations of the manufacturing process so they don't look cheap.
>>337155967
But what's gonna happen to Johnny V now?
>>337156059
What if there was a Warhammer 40k skylanderish video game
>>337158014
Skylanders but with Disney characters (which also includes Star Wars and Marvel chacters)
>>337157653
>her eyes are too big for her iris/pupils.
Slightly. Though I did not buy her for her face.
Wonder if this means Disney will put more focus on Kingdom Hearts 3.
Wanna know what their problem was?
They were always available.
No artificial scarcity like Nintendongs
>be Disney
>buy Star Wars
>destroy EU and all IPs connected to it
>make exclusive Deal with the Cancer of gaming aka EA
>only 1 Star Wars Game so far which was a DLC ridden casualized piece of shit with the only other one coming up being another LEGO abomination
Thank god that we didnt get a true BF3, new Galactic Battleground, Republic Commando 2, Jedi Knight 3 or new Rouge Squadron
>>337158013
I think Amiibo is a different case because in many situations they're the only way to get an affordable and usually nice looking(outside of the lower quality of 1st wave) figure of the characters.
A number of them have just never stopped selling.
>>337158242
>the rabbit.
>Activision's face when
>>337158164
Games Workshop are too protective to let the boardgame and games crossover that much.
There's a reason there hasn't been a warhammer/40k game that uses the game rules for its mechanics.
>>337158242
Nope, it's over. No more console games forever.There goes the flame of hope for an IO game that isn't a shitty bubble shooter clone.
>>337156645
>Ant-Man in MCU
I thought Star Wars at the very least would keep it afloat by itself
>>337158242
furries are one of the biggest cancers in the west. you are partly responsible for the decline of western civilization
>>337158474
>There's a reason there hasn't been a warhammer/40k game that uses the game rules for its mechanics.
What about Final Liberation?
>>337158525
Shit I meant MvC
>>337158474
Never really played the boardgame because I'm a poorfag from a third world, but isn't Armageddon kinda like it?
Why does Disney hate video games so much?
>>337158242
I find it weird Disney stopped doing tie in games.
Olaf's quest sold in bucket loads and its a piece of shit.
How much would a well made Frozen 2 game sell?
>>337158762
Disney is old media who naturally hates new media
>>337157113
Man, he's gonna be crushed. I don't think it will be as bad as when GT was ended though, since he cried on stream. Easy Allies is awesome though.
Neat, I might pick up a couple of figs for hot gluing once they hit the clearance isle. Any recommendations? I know nothing about this Jewish shit, is there a Star Vs one?
Hahah! Maybe now walmart can expand their amiibo stock. Or the NX isn't supporting this.
>>337158762
Cuz they release shitty casual shovelware and expect to sell billions but it sells like shit.
>>337158762
Maybe they fear it and think it's a threat to their business.
Due to it producing things like Mario. Where Mario at one point became more recongisable than Mickey Mouse.
>>337155967
Does that mean Marvel vs. Capcom 4 might actually happen?
This is kind of bad news in the long term, it means kids aren't getting into consoles and dedicated video game systems like they used to. How will traditional gaming live on if it ages out due to kids going over to mobile shit or watching youtube?
>>337158385
Link and Pikachu are obvious, but Zelda's not one I'd have considered. I can see Cloud wiping the floor with everything outside the top 10 though.
>>337158924
>How will traditional gaming live on
Traditional gaming is already dead but will be revived via a true indie scene eventually when the big shots fail and have to branch out into other things
>>337158902
That's on Disney, Mickey hasn't been used in anything forever, besides those shitty 3d cgi cartoons on some disney channel.
>>337158902
That can be blamed on Disney barely doing anything with him in decades.
the actual figures for disney infinity were pretty good quality too.
kind of a shame the games were shit though
>>337158762
Disney in general sucks dick.
>>337156852
>literally designed so 3 year olds could play it
Have you not played Skylanders? My nephew asked me to play with him, and it goes far beyond casual and enters "holy shit please kill me this is so fucking boring" territory.
>>337158643
Final liberation was a bastardized version of Epic.
They seem fine with their spin offs getting more faithful games
How is Skylanders and Lego Dimensions doing, are they dying out like Infinity?
>>337158779
It wouldn't even have to be well made to sell well, but on the off chance that it did poorly it could be seen to hurt the brand. Interestingly there used to be A LOT of tie-in games until about 8-9 years ago. Now you either have to spend less than $10 million or more than $60 to turn a decent profit, and even that's a gamble.
>>337158242
Yiffe
>>337159162
kill you'reself
>>337159240
Tie-ins have more or less moved to Mobile. Mobile is the perfect place for low effort shit like that, the returns on money compared to investment are insane.
>>337158909
they could stop vidya forever considering they make a billion $ for 60 million investment in a shitty rapunzel reskin every year.
They only went to game when the 2000's deluded themselves into beliving gaming will be a bigger industry than cinema forever. But china happened.
Welp. This leaves Skylanders, Amiibo and Lego Dimensions.
I always felt Disney Infinity was the weakest of all toy to life lineups. Shame, because it looked kind of neat. I feel bad for Avalanche as well.
I also feel this was due to Disney's incompetence to balance dev costs and marketing.
The real sad news is that Disney completely dropped investing on videogame studios. Some of my childhood defining games were made by Disney Interactive (RIP).
Oh well.
>>337159270
Not him but I do want a 50/60s cop game again. LA Noire was a thing I guess but not really what I had in mind.
>>337158762
>Disney is used to being the absolute top dog in the animated film industry
>they enter the video industry
>they can't dominate it like the animated film industry
>they're not even considered relevant at all
>they can't figure out why so they just phone it in with shitty shovelware games before they eventually remove themselves from the industry completely
>>337155967
>Got wrecked by amiibo
Lofty kek
>>337158242
yiff in hell
>people actually bought these so their kids could play the shitty game
>not just for the high quality figures
>all those PC users that bought the codes online
>once the servers go down they will have absolutely nothing to show for the money they spent
Haah waaw.
>>337159090
The recent Mickey shorts are pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTszQSI0Xw4
>>337159239
Skylanders is fucking massive and not going anywhere anytime soon
That lego game I don't know
>>337156338
The difference is, Skylanders is actually a pretty okay game and amiibo are tied to much better games
>>337159509
if you hate Mickey maybe. That shit is just spiting on the icon's face with no real depth. gross humour, shit spongebob rip off at best.
>>337159393
>the weakest of all toy to life lineups
they were easily the best designed
they're still the best toy part of the toys-to-life stuff
>>337159481
After this news, I'm going to buy all figurines I can. I need Woody, Hulk and some others.
>>337156645
Nah, Capcom would add Monster Hunter in there somehow.
>>337159579
>>337159162
I really wish that movie didn't get popular and didn't moved its way on /v/
>>337159695
I heard something about how they wanted Hunters in MvC3 but the Monster Hunter producer said they have to make every weapon a seperate fighter or they can't use any of them. Same reason Sony Smash has good and evil Cole.
>>337158242
>ACTUAL Zootopia game
Sure man, whatever you say
The bubble has burst? Thank god, I hope it happens to Nintendo next, locking gameplay behind their plastic garbage is the worst shit ever.
Alright, deep breath, and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTZsiwk-ik
>>337159368
China's economy only has to grow a little more for games to become an affordable hobby there too. That and the government have to allow more consoles to be sold in the country, but WoW shows how profitable a market it can be for games too.
>>337159629
Not arguing about that, DI is very good as a game series. But I can't really explain it, I akways felt it was weaker compared to, say, Skylanders from a brand recognition point of view.
>>337156427
That wasn't Disney it was Marvel being retarded and having an ego removibg licensing from every publisher that they had for their video games so they can create their own video game universe.
Disney is actually the one telling them to cut the shit and stop doing mobile crap or they will shut down their video game division. If that Spider-Man game from Sycker Punch is true then that is their first step in the right direction. All we need next is a new MvC 2 with the button layout and gameplay of MvC 2 and no shitty X Factor comeback gimmicks.
>>337159842
If only ban evasion wasn't so easy, we have another board furries post on that we could nuke like Moot did to /fur/.
>>337158101
Goes back to sucking Jeff Gerstmann's dick for taco bell money.
Seriously, how does a guy who give a psp filled with horse porn and tweets out people's phone numbers NOT going to eventually run a business into the ground.
Thank GOD Square is in charge of Kingdom Hearts. If Disney was in charge of it then it would have been doomed from the start. Hell KH is probably the only thing good now a days that has Disney's name attached to it
>>337158242
Die in a fucking fire while agonizing from terminal cancer of everything, you fucking degenerate
>You lived to see the Skylanders/infinity/amiibo/toy vidya bubble pop
Feels good man
Not surprising in the slightest, Skylanders seems to be dying slowly as well and these thing literally sit on the shelves forever.
so that's why nintendo is making such a deal about disney art academy.
>>337159393
I think it comes down to how good the games were rather than how good the figures were, personally. In my experience in my limited use of all of them, DI had the best, some Skylanders second, then amiibo.
>>Thank god that we didnt get a true BF3, new Galactic Battleground, Republic Commando 2, Jedi Knight 3 or new Rouge Squadron
Impying whoevers in.charge even knows what those titles are.
>>337160071
Disney wasn't the one that forced Marvel to cut all of its licenses from video game devs and pushed for Marvel mobile shit? But it sounds like a Disney thing they'd do.
>>337155967
Still Kingdom Hearts though, right?
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO LET CAPCOM DO MARVEL VS CAPCOM 4
GODAMNIT DISNEY IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE DOING ANYTHING WORTHWILE
Jews are terrible at business
Go figure.
>>337158165
At least skylanders has actual levels.
>>337155967
How? I thought the NFC craze combined with Disney's billion dollar properties were selling well.
>>337160351
Square develops Kingdom Hearts so it's fine
>>337158274
That's Square Enix and not enturelt Disney's video game division. They could probably tell Nomura to hurry the fuck up already.
>>337160356
>WHY IS IT SO HARD TO LET CAPCOM
>Capcom
Bleah. No thanks. I'd rather get Marvel vs SNK or something. Capcum can't even make fighting games anymore.
>>337160356
crapcom don't need disney help to be incompetent
>>337156645
The way Capcom are desperate for money/support, you can bet they would full the roster with oldschool characters
But of course that would be nothing compared to the shitstorm of the inclusion of a SF5 character
![tumblr_ns3wf2pt5Z1qbxxf8o1_400[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/EG5PbcG.png "tumblr_ns3wf2pt5Z1qbxxf8o1_400[1].png")
DARKWING DUCK AND MABELFAGS ON SUICIDE WATCH
NEVER EVER
>>337155967
Considering I just bought some of the 2.0 stuff to give it a chance, I find this disheartening. What was so bad about these games other than the cashgrab part? They seem kinda cool, how you can make your own worlds and all that.
>>337156097
>tfw no open world zootopia game
kill me
>>337160305
It was Marvel since Disney is letting them do their thing. Ever since the first Avengers movie made bank they decided to do that as well with their video games and haven't moved forward besides their mobile crap.
>>337158242
>Zootopia
Another western studio goes down the drain
>>337160171
I wonder if KH3 will be the last Kingdom Hearts game.
>>337158101
this
Haven't they made in excess of fucking 5 BILLION USD in profit just off their movies?
Something seems fucking off here.
>>337160662
The games are good, the figurines are good quality and the characters they choose are some of the most well known in the world.
And yet Disney fucked up. HOW?
>>337156338
The market is oversaturated and theyre too expensive to pick all of them at once
>>337160957
Not enough.
>>337157986
>That said the animal crossing Amiibos aren't doing so hot.
That's what happens when you take the two most wanted amiibos and packed them together with an ok game and put a $60 price tag, also the Timmy and Tommy amiibo is too cute.
>>337158242
I dont understand the appeal of these shit little figures with no articulation at all. You cant do anything with them and they dont look good enough as statues.
>>337159047
My friend bought me Zelda as a Bday gift, I actually only like it because it was a gift.
>>337160582
Like the new King of Fighters is any better
Fightan is dead
>>337156338
Disney probably has higher expectations for their return on investments. Making money is one thing, making enough money is another.
>There will never be an Epic Mickey 3
not that there would anyway, but I could dream
>>337155967
>End of Disney as video game publisher.
please sell split second to somebody so they can make more games
>>337157986
>That said the animal crossing Amiibos aren't doing so hot
I'd love to see actual sources about that. Sources that aren't "I see them in the shelves, hence they don't sell".
>>337159868
What a cunt
>>337160802
Nope. The creator Tetsuya Nomura confirmed a while ago that Kingdom Hearts will continue after 3 and that Sora will be the main protagonist for the entire series
>>337156338
Wrong target group, what else.
Do you think Star Wars Fans and Marvel Fans are the right choice for Toys?
>>337161647
I could see them selling like shit in the west, but Jap girls love anything to do with Animal Crossing, so it probably sells well in Japan.
>>337155967
The sad thing was that it was making profit. They cancelled it because it wasn't making as much as they want
Yeeeep
>>337158242
Furry bashing aside, those are some actually neat looking figures.
>>337159940
No they aren't next up is Sega, then ubisoft, then EA.
>>337159456
>>337161773
Kids love the shit out of marvel and star wars.
>>337155967
I just wanted Doctor Strange.
Fuck Disney.
>>337161881
Better stop while banking than when already bleeding money.
>>337161982
thats some high tier shitposting image you got there
>>337158762
Because Walt Disney still controls Disney from his cryo chamber underneath sleeping beauty's castle.
Old Walt still thinks video games are a fad and not worth taking seriously.
>>337162061
Only in America i think and thats the point. But i could be wrong, would like to see global sales statistics, can ask ex co-worker from Disney Interactive i knew but i hardly guess she can help me.
>>337162223
But why would Walt allow corrupting jewish influence to take over Disney if he were still alive?
>>337155967
Great, Wii U loses another game
>>337162356
Does Disney sound like a english native's name to you?
>>337161652
>>337159868
Yeah while i can see the MH producer saying some shit like that, we have also to remember that the Capcom marketing team blatantly gave lies and stupid excuses to characters that later were added as DLC, like certain character being "too punchy" or "no one likes ninjas" or "we can't make his bike work" for Ghostrider
>>337162061
>kids love star wars
No they don't Star Wars is old as fuck and there's only a single show that tries to appeal to both stupid kids and stupid manchildren while failing with both
>>337162649
Yes they fucking do. They are all over old shit as well, say "Darth Vader" and they go fucking crazy.
>>337159393
>Lego Dimensions.
That's struggling even worse than Infinity. That shit is dead.
>>337162913
How so?
>>337162194
I can get Stitch for cheap now. Sweet.
>>337163480I miss the times of 2012 when everyone posted "master ruseman" pics.
>>337163320
Too fucking expensive.
>>337160159
>Seriously, how does a guy who give a psp filled with horse porn and tweets out people's phone numbers NOT going to eventually run a business into the ground.
He invested in T-Mobile. He'll be fine.
>People thinking Infinity was doing bad
It was doing as well as amiibos if not better recently; it made a lot of dosh
Iger thought it just didn't make as much as they wanted. They think the licensing model is more lucrative so this happened
It's a matter of greed, nothing else
>>337162825
Kids today are about Minecraft, retarded youtubers, mobile games and Call of Duty
the age of letting your kids watch TV is over, now is the age of letting your kids use your tablet while you do not-parent things
>>337159086
>Forever
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is a pre-school show but its toy line is extremely successful, as well as DVDs.
It's been going on since 2004, iirc.
>>337163873
shit is changing though cause public awareness is calling out shitty parents who do that now.
>>337163808
>4 years ago
Years fly by so fast.
>>337163840
So, you don't have any actual evidence to back up your claim. Good to know.
>>337163320
they release a billion models at once, and the starting pack is like 100$
>>337158385
>Buying a Link amiibo when there are figmas of him.
ISHYGDDT
>>337158762
Because Bob Iger is out of touch and thinks Mobile is the future of gaming.
>>337164145
They sure do. It's insane that we're already half way through 2016.
>>337157653
>Didn't see tangled
Holy shit, go watch it right fucking now. You don't know what you're missing. Better than that Frozen garbage.
>>337164319
The figma doesn't unlock special stuff in Hyrule Warriors, TP HD, Smash amd other games though. Figma are also more expensive.
>>337164319
link's probably the amiibo with the most functionality. that said toon link works just the same in 99% of the games and looks way better.
that and figmas/nendos cost twice as much and don't unlock shit in hyrule warriors or other games.
>>337158242
Why the hell was this post deleted?
just looked some shit up out of curiosity
>only figure I want is either stuck in a bundle with stuff I don't care about or exclusive to a store I don't like shopping at and costs more than other figures due to a stupid gimmick
fuckin
What does this mean? Can we still do the single player shit? Will the servers still be up to play people's levels? Can we still download the content for play sets when we buy them
>>337164496
>This board will continue to rot
>>337164767
At this point in time no one knows. Sucks really; didn't think DI would be the first one out. My money was Lego or skylanders.
>>337164710
cuz yiff in hell furfag
>>337165016
Yeah, ok, there's like 20 different Overwatch threads up but that one post about some guy wanting a proper Zootopia game is more important because muh yiff in hell meme. Sure.
>>337164827
>tfw I can't leave this place even though there's almost nothing on this board I really care about these days
>>337165016
Fuck me first
>>337156338
1. Disney is super risk averse. They pulled out of untested ip movies when Tomorrowland/John Carter flopped, so there wont be anything like pirates of the carribean for a while.
2. It didn't make enough money. They could be outsourcing battlefronts instead of infinity and get more money.
>>337163873
M 4 yr old students yell at me about minecraft and FNAF.
>>337165251
>Disney is super risk averse. They pulled out of untested ip movies when Tomorrowland/John Carter flopped, so there wont be anything like pirates of the carribean for a while.
makes sense, their entire board of directors and big wigs are old jews
It was a good idea, but it was spread too thin, even with the cast Disney could sport.
>Skylanders is first to market and carries the established base
>Amiibo have functionality with other games and make their purchase easier to swallow
>>337160957
EXACTLY. The opportunity cost of Infinity was enormous, as Disney has so many other profitable projects to channel money into.
Disney infinity could be making a solid profit but be dumped because they have even better places to put their cash.
>>337156852
>Amiibos work on a wider range of games
Ooooh wow a fucking costume.
They sell because of Nintendo's manchildren fanbase eats up that collectible shit.
>>337165738
>Ooooh wow a fucking costume.
yes, a costume here, a costume there, and suddenly your $13 toy is a lot easier to justify purchasing because it has more functionality in the long run.
you can shittalk it all you want but don't pretend "can be used in multiple games as opposed to only one" is not a selling point to amiibo compared to skylanders or DI.
>>337165738
>He says, as implying that parents and kids wouldn't eat up the Infinity toys like waffles.
Dude, accept that the main reason that Infinity went awfully at the end was because they were going less and less good, heck, remember the interest that was going here and in /co/ over the Darkwing Duck vs Mabel Pines saga?
If they had delivered AND made more shit of things that everyone wanted, the toys would have sold, and the game wouldn't be cancelled.
This sucks. The cool thing about Infinity figurines were they were characters I recognized, not those generic literally who? Skylanders.
>>337159670
There's a bunch of them so they'll be cheap for years to come.
WHAT AM I SUPPOSE TO DO WITH ALL MY FIGURES NOW!?
>>337155967
Video games are over
>>337167262
Figure it out
>>337167394
Hey it was fun right.
Still have some amazing classics to play. So even if it is dead, it well never truly die.
>>337167394
>smartphones have now destroyed the internet and video games
who knew such a small device would be so destructive
>>337156338
They did make a profit.
They just didn't make as much as they wanted.
The real take away from this isn't that DI is dead, but they axed the entire video game division entirely. That's a Hella of a lot of people losing jobs.
>>337160612
Those were fun threads
I remembered seeing a neat image of the two actually duking it out
With Infinity going down the tubes, I kind of want to pick up the few figures that even caught my eye.
Aladdin
Jasmine
Mulan
Nick Wilde
Judy Hopps
I'm afraid those last two are just me wanting them because they're newer, because I don't have an interest in getting Baymax, Hiro, Tangled, or anything Pixar, even if I liked the movies. I'd think about getting the Incredibles gang, since they're all there, but the figures themselves don't seem to look quite right, probably because of the art style they all follow.
I'm not getting into Marvel or Star Wars, because they have way too many figures, and I wouldn't feel right just getting a couple.
Any suggestions, or things I shouldn't get on my list?
So why are images of the bunny or fox from Zootopia automatically deleted? I haven't seen the movie either.
>>337167950
they're used in shitposting, just think back to when MLP first started
You can't make money in vidya anymore. Too expensive.
>>337167394
Man, /v/ and life in general has made me so pessimistic and jaded that now all I can say is I'm excited for complete casual takeover
>>337157828
Disney was the number 1 seller in the TTL market last year.
The profit they make from it isn't enough to justify them continuing production when they can just outsource/license out games to other companies and have them eat the cost.
You know how they're being investigated for firing their IT department and replacing them with poo in the loos?
Similar concept here, just more legal.
>>337157874
It's been almost 2 hours and nobody has called you out on how retarded you are
>>337168172
>You know how they're being investigated for firing their IT department and replacing them with poo in the loos?
Doesn't every American company do that via H1-B Visa's? Isn't shutting that down one of the reason's Trump's doing so well?
>>337159047
I think it's because she's the only other female amiibo available that isn't Peach. Also, Peach is apparently selling like shit. They can't get rid of her.
>>337168349
He's right though. Infinity was the strongest. The Star Wars launch pushed it into #1 territory.
Smash Bros. line is basically done.
Skylanders is waning.
Lego Dimensions has been sitting on shelves.
The bobble is popping
>>337168469
Should have kept the panties.
>>337160662
Maybe the fact that you had to buy an entirely new version of shit you just bought? All new figures can't work with previous pads and games. Only the figurines and power things were universal.
>>337156338
Well, Skylanders is an actual game.
So...no more Star Wars games?
>>337167924
Get whatever ones you want and make sure to negotiate like a Iranian for a low ass price. These won't ever be manufacturered again; it's done and the servers will die soon.
Buy whatever ones you want after that. Remember once they're gone, they're gone
>>337168901
Toys R Us is having a general 40% off all Disney Infinity, so I guess I'm going to have a look.
>>337156338
Skylanders isn't as profitable as it once was.
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/02/activisions_2015_figures_show_slight_growth_but_skylanders_and_guitar_hero_underperform
And Nintendo has failed to find a game like Super Smash Bros. to push the amiibo line (failure of Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival, for example).
It's starting to look like the bubble is about to burst.
Disney started with vidya in 1986. Another video game publisher dead at the hands of the endless wave of depression and disillusionment that the modern world has fallen into.
>While Disney is retreating from publishing console games, you can likely expect to see even more mobile games featuring the company’s characters. Developers and publishers on iOS and Android are always looking for an attractive property to help their free-to-play businesses find players
You can thank mobile gaming
I also like how the headline is "struggling" when Infinity never had losses. It was profitable. It just didn't make way more.
>>337156338
Ya want a Nintendo figurine? Buy an amiibo. Want a Skylanders thing? Buy their shit. Want an Iron Man? Why buy some shitty fucking chibi ass crap when there's like five million Iron Man toys? They fucking cannibalized themselves. Morons.
>>337168872
Those are handled by EA. Not Disney.
>>337156427
>How about they go back to Capcom on their hands and knees and apologize for abandoning MvC
Why would Disney/Marvel do that when MvC3 underperformed? And with Street Fighter V recently missing its financial quota, what motivation does Capcom have to make a AAA fighting game.
Those shitty mobile Marvel games made more money than MvC3.
>>337161773
>Do you think Star Wars Fans and Marvel Fans are the right choice for Toys
You think they aren't?
>>337168469
>the only other female amiibo available
Wii Fit Trainer, Samus, Zero Suit Samus, All the animal crossing furbait, Jigglypuff
>>337167394
Japanese Video games are over*
Notice how those companies are all nip. I mean Jap gaming has been cancerous for a long time now, and the west isn't subsidizing them anymore. In turn, they basically only sell big in japan, but that still isn't good enough. Japs are turning to mobile more and more, which means jap games will do so too.
Western gaming on the other hand is strong, and low budget indie games on steam show no signs of stopping being profitable. Though there's a trick - don't make garbage filled with SJW nonsense and/or "art" games that last less than 2 hours. If you do you'll be another SJW dev crying about refunds.
>>337169220
>I also like how the headline is "struggling" when Infinity never had losses. It was profitable. It just didn't make way more
There are retards on /v/ who think that it made tons of losses and that Ninty or activision is next
L
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>>337169715
I think he meant available as in easy to find. Granted Zamus has been surprisingly easy to find.
>>337169862
The latest Skylanders game is struggling. LEGO Dimensions is practically dead. Nintendo doesn't have enough another big game lined up in months to push another wave of Amiibos.
Infinity has a ton of properties lined up and a platform that doesn't need a new big push to get a new wave of toys out. And they're the first to fall.
>>337167741
Hitler's dad after he saw what Hitler became
Can we still go online and download player maps and shit? or is that service being taken offline as well? Honestly infinity is a fun game to play with siblings, I play it with my younger sister all the timewhile she sits on my lap
Just bought myself the Nick figure. I'm in it for the figures, screw the game. Might pick up the Boba Fett one
>>337160605
>of a SF5 character
If anyone in SF5 would get into Marvel it's no contest it'd be Necalli.
>>337169718
Disney sure seems western to me bro
Nobody remembers the biggest flop out of all these?
>>337167741
I remember when video games were the mobile game of the 1980s and destroyed...BOOKS
>>337158242
>Wanting a game based off a sjw movie
>>337172437
Disney buying Marvel was a mistake.
>>337165251
>so there wont be anything like pirates of the carribean for a while.
how is that risk averse? they made mint with the franchise, in fact they're filming a new one right now in Australia with a whopping budget, probably one of the highest on record.
>>337169378
That license gives them exclusivity to only a specific subset of console/PC titles.
>>337172775
Disney buying Star Wars was a mistake
>>337158351
>implying the Lego games aren't good
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>>337167716
>Avalanche SOFTWARE closing
Yeah, but they haven't made anything good, as far as I can tell. Hopefully the good game designers, artists, and programmers will get hired somewhere else and actually be useful to the industry
>>337157731
underrated post
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