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Inferno313 · May 10, 2016

Disney cancels struggling Infinity video game line. Takes $147 million charge. End of Disney as video game publisher.

Source

This guy is a film writer at Wall Street Journal who focuses on a lot of Disney stuff. He's live-tweeting some kind of investor's meeting.

I'll edit with more details when I find them.

EDIT: Developing Polygon Article

// Mod Edit:

Disney statement:

“After a thorough evaluation, we have modified our approach to console gaming and will transition exclusively to a licensing model. This shift in strategy means we will cease production of Disney Infinity, where the lack of growth in the toys-to-life market, coupled with high development costs, has created a challenging business model. This means that we will be shutting down Avalanche, our internal studio that developed the game. This was a difficult decision that we did not take lightly given the quality of Disney Infinity and its many passionate fans.”

Source: http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/10/t...rtainment-company-pulls-out-of-console-games/

GAMEPROFF · May 10, 2016

Oh no

Ocelott · May 10, 2016

What??? There is about to be a mad dash for figures if true.

stuminus3 · May 10, 2016

Iwata: *laughs*

EDIT: this post was made way before any announcement about job cuts when the OP had very little info other than a rumour that Infinity was being shelved. Get over yourselves you humourless sods.

Ludger Kresnik · May 10, 2016

Yo...

teflontactics · May 10, 2016

To infinity and.... that's enough, pack it up.

lol

Guevara · May 10, 2016

what

I don't understand how those games don't print money.

chadskin · May 10, 2016

Holy cow. I thought it was doing well.

Creaking · May 10, 2016

GAMEPROFF said:
Oh no

farisr · May 10, 2016

Brandon's not gonna like this.

Bulzeeb · May 10, 2016

Will they discontinue some of their figures? if so, I'll need to buy some of them before its too late

VilleEricson · May 10, 2016

What? Damn no.. I thought Infinity was going well?

farisr said:
Brandon's not gonna like this.

Hate to be the one that tells him this...

Alienous · May 10, 2016

And EA laughs.

"More Star Wars for me".

Mushroomer25 · May 10, 2016

Woah. The toys-to-life bubble must've finally burst for them.

sixteen-bit · May 10, 2016

Toys To Life going the way of Rock Band?

braves01 · May 10, 2016

What? This feels surprising.

KingBroly · May 10, 2016

what

wow

huh

7DollarHagane · May 10, 2016

Thats amazing. Everyone leaving games publishing. Just make more apps to get kids to beg parents for money. That's the future.

Blues1990 · May 10, 2016

Welp, there goes my chances of getting a nice Scrooge McDuck figurine.

kayos90 · May 10, 2016

Was Infinity not doing well? I thought it was doing super well.

Akronis · May 10, 2016

Out of fucking nowhere.

Byronic Hero · May 10, 2016

Wow. At least we still have Kingdom Hearts. I never played the games, but I thought it was doing alright. Guess I was wrong.

Wagram · May 10, 2016

Brandon Jones is going to be pissed.

Old Gimlet Eyes · May 10, 2016

EA to develop and publish all Disney games from now on I take it.

CreeperBlocks · May 10, 2016

I didn't know Disney Infinity was doing that bad

Garrett Hawke · May 10, 2016

Wow

What a wasted opportunity

going to snatch up some figures now though, they're really great quality.

Stanng243 · May 10, 2016

Weren't there supposed to be more figures coming?

brianmcdoogle · May 10, 2016

The way Disney handled the Infinity stuff always seemed like the worst option of the big three. Considering the characters under Disney's control, I can't help but feel that they wasted and made so many wrong and bad decisions with it.

Still, striking news.

iFirez · May 10, 2016

Well I'm glad I still have all the Marvel and Star Wars figures.

Creaking · May 10, 2016

sixteen-bit said:
Toys To Life going the way of Rock Band?

I hope so, though this sucks for those that were deeply invested in those things.

Napalm_Frank · May 10, 2016

Brandon Jones and Botty on suicide watch.

I'm not sure I want to live in a world without super cringeworthy DI E3 presentations.

Sabas · May 10, 2016

Wow. Just wow. That's sad news.

Grisby · May 10, 2016

No more Tron sequels? Or at least not by Disney I guess.

BodiesWithoutOrgans · May 10, 2016

I stopped colelcting figure fin in the begining now a waste of money live and learn

BitStyle · May 10, 2016

What?! So sudden! I feel that's leaving money on the table.

FUNKNOWN iXi · May 10, 2016

farisr said:
Brandon's not gonna like this.

First thought I had lol.

Spiral Insanity · May 10, 2016

Is this a bad sign for the industry?

NHarmonic. · May 10, 2016

This doesn't touch Kingdom Hearts, does it?

Mpl90 · May 10, 2016

This is...shocking if true, considering there were no signals at all on the matter.

hodayathink · May 10, 2016

kayos90 said:
Was Infinity not doing well? I thought it was doing super well.

It was doing okay before last year, and the bottom has started to fall out of toys-to-life already. They're getting out now instead of waiting for things to get worse.

HMD · May 10, 2016

Disney exiting game publishing to allow their newest addition Nintendo to handle their gaming side?

NHarmonic. said:
This doesn't touch Kingdom Hearts, does it?

Fuck, I hope not.

super-famicom · May 10, 2016

I've got gadgets and gizmos aplenty
I've got whozits and whatitz galore
You want thingamabobs? I've got plenty!

AlexMeloche · May 10, 2016

I thought Infinite was selling well? :/

Colonel Nasty · May 10, 2016

Their lack of ability to play any character any where was their downfall

Storm Raider · May 10, 2016

Megaton. Wow that's crazy...

curb · May 10, 2016

Well, shoot. That's a bummer. If true, I hope JV and all find new jobs quickly.

AAMARMO · May 10, 2016

Oh shit Brandon Jones and John Vignocchi gonna be hulk smashing.

thebeeks · May 10, 2016

Wow. I thought Infinity was doing well.

Time to buy some of those cool looking figures on deep discount, I guess.

JayEH · May 10, 2016

I just assumed Infinity was doing well...

shinobi602 · May 10, 2016

They must not have been selling well. I was always curious who buys these games. They never seemed appealing to me.

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