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[Servbot24]

Brandon Jones is going to be pissed.

My first thought too, lol.

 

[BiggNife]

But what's going to happen to John Vignocchi

 

[Cow Goes Moo]

would that include any mobile games too?

admittedly I can only really think of tsum tsum and frozen free fall
edit- oh, console games, nevermind

 

[backflip10019]

Amiibo won.

 

[AndrewDean84xX]

Buy this last one was great! Oh man. Makes me want to go out and buy and download all I can, while I can.

 

[BitStyle]

This doesn't touch Kingdom Hearts, does it?

It shouldn't. Square is still the main publisher on that series, and I'm pretty sure Disney Interactive will still exist.

 

[Nudull]

The fuck? I thought this was a monster hit for Disney, especially since 2.0

 

[Karu]

Brandon's not gonna like this.

He's in Disneyland on vacation right now, of all places.

 

[Tame Deity]

Don't know why this is surprising. Not trying to sound like an asshole, but I've always felt Infinity was going to end up not selling anything. Feel sad for Disney exiting games though.

 

[Tempy]

Heh. Better get that Judy figure soon then...

 

[Joqu]

Oh wow. Kingdom Hearts is fine though, right?

 

[Cardon]

A bit shocking for it to occur now, but looking at Disney's prior track record, and the T2L genre, I'm not entirely surprised.

Sucks though since Infinity had solid potential for the younger audience. I just wonder what impact, if any, this will have on any potential Marvel based games moving forward since that's a potential goldmine that Disney/Marvel hasn't properly tapped yet.

 

[PushTheButtonMax]

That's too bad. Sucks for Johnny V.

 

[Fevaweva]

Poor Johnny V

 

[Toki767]

The figures are always going on sale, so yeah. Kind of easy to believe sadly.

 

[DrGonzo615]

kind of a shocker. I always assumed that these things sold like hot-cakes. I guess not.

 

[bananafactory]

But ... We are still getting the level packs promised for this year right??

 

[Kevinroc]

This is very surprising.

 

[TheYanger]

wat. I mean they dropped out of E3 but they said they were doing additional video stuff for fans this summer instead, so I'm still a bit surprised by this.

 

[Poltergust]

I'm really shocked at this.

 

[YuriLowell]

Poor Johnny V.

 

[Aureon]

This doesn't touch Kingdom Hearts, does it?

Disney never had any role in Kingdom Hearts beyond providing the rights, and probably some sort of approval, but that's it.

 

[LordBaztion]

I'm going to buy some of these toys when are dirt cheap

 

[Oddduck]

Dang what a shocker.

 

[tolkir]

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

There is a chance. Kingdom Hearts 3 Port for NX, KH 3 with a Scrooge McDuck world and KH amiibos collection.

 

[georly]

Toys To Life going the way of Rock Band?

I knew that was going to happen as soon as I learned about skylanders.

Everyone criticizes amiibo for not doing much, but amiibo have the benefit of not being tied to a single game (franchise). How much longer THAT will persist is hard to say, but it's seemingly more evergreen than figures tied to one and only one game franchise.

 

[stan423321]

I didn't know Disney Infinity was doing that bad

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

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

This. What the hell? Are we expecting Ninny/Acti/WB to pull out too? Okay, not Nintendo probably since amiibo model is relatively good for dev budget, but one of the others?

 

[SerTapTap]

So is this the new "plastic guitars"? How well is the lego thing doing?

 

[CreeperBlocks]

This doesn't touch Kingdom Hearts, does it?

I don't think so.... Hopefully not

 

[Hero Prinny]

thats really surprising, came out of no where.

 

[Inferno313]

Oh wow. Kingdom Hearts is fine though, right?

I think those games are published by Square, not Disney. No?

 

[Vilam]

Yikes. Bad look for the industry.

 

[YianGaruga]

Amiibo won.

Did it? That seems to have lost a lot of steam and appeal as well. Toys to life seems kind of over

 

[Guevara]

Seems legit? From their earnings press release:

Items affecting comparability during the quarter ended April 2, 2016 included a $147 million charge in connection with the discontinuation of our self-published console games business, principally Infinity (Infinity Charge)​

http://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...isney-Company-Reports-Quarter-Months-Earnings

 

[Vanillalite]

Noooooooo

Mother Fuck

Noooooooo

PS: I hate you all for not buying into 3.0 despite my attempts to tell you all it's fun.

 

[DragonOfWisdom]

WTF I thought they sold well.

 

[jonno394]

Amiibo won.

If Disney infinity wasn't selling, what can be said for the recent skylander title(s). The last one didn't set the charts on fire. Wonder if that's next?

Edit - oh wait, a new one is deffi coming. ...ignore me lol

 

[Zee-Row]

Does this mean Capcom has a shot at Marvel Vs. Capcom 4 now?

 

[Granjinha]

Meanwhile, Warner is launching hit after hit in the videogame space.

Huh.

I'm pretty sure Disney could make a killing in videogames business. Shame that they don't have a fucking clue of what to do. (Except give it's licences to other big publishers)

 

[Zebei]

What? This sounds impossible. I know a guy that won't be happy about this. . . damn

 

[Cth]

Time to dump all the digital codes I have in the BST thread

 

[OmegaFax]

They discontinued the Android version of Disney Infinity earlier this year. Pulling out of publishing entirely? Does this affect partnerships? Nothing past Kingdom Hearts?

 

[Grexeno]

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

Parents for their kids, most likely. Either the kids lost interest, the parents stopped buying them even if the kids wanted them, or both.

 

[eFKac]

So that's why Sony got the Spider-Man game license huh?

Spoiler

tinfoil hat

John V joining his friend Adam B over at Sony?

 

[RyanW]

Geez, it's not like they were bad games either. The Star Wars ones are really fun. Guess they just invested too much into it.

Wonder if that means all the stuff will start to go on clearance in stores. Zeb and Kanaan from Rebels were $2 each at my Walmart the other day. Trying to collect all the Star Wars ones

 

[Ovek]

Does that free up Star Wars and Marvel for Lego Dimensions 2.

 

[FZZ]

Amiibo won

 

[cw_sasuke]

Expected - they put all their IPs in one basket and couldnt make it work.

 

[MrNelson]

I wonder if this is going to impact the Disney games currently up on Steam.

 

[JayEH]

Does this mean Capcom has a shot at Marvel Vs. Capcom 4 now?

Don't do this to yourself.