I was never into Disney Infinity but I thought they'd keep their VG division cuz of the success of that.
Oh CBR News bot, you just barely missed the Games section of the forum.
I guess this means Disney Infinity wasn't making the billions Skylanders made. Weird thing is, I thought Infinity was making Disney quite a bit.
We weren't really getting good Marvel games under Activision at the end either. CoD got huge, and Activision started putting their D teams on Marvel games; it went from Raven Software, to teams that port stuff. When did the last good Activision Marvel game come out, 2009? Now compared to what they're doing now, which is horrible iOS garbage like their "fighting game", those last few years under Activision look great.
Funny thing is Activision actually has the best action developer making video games right now doing their license stuff.
The best Marvel game in the past 15 years was probably the Marvel vs Capcom 3 games.
Disney could have always gotten them to develop games for them. Before they just needed developers, now they need publishers. It's not like Disney Interactive Studios couldn't go after Platinum Games, Capcom, Team Ninja, Double Fine, Yacht Club Games, Team Meat, and a whole ton of other developers. It's not like there aren't tons of developers who weren't owned by publishers (or worked with other publishers) in the years Disney had a game devision going. Disney actually had a really good racing developer for a while, some of that team went on to do Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, but Disney was never seemingly smart enough to do their own Mario Kart style game with them...well, they did, they just didn't do it with all those Disney characters they own.
The Disney isn't seemingly stopping Marvel games from happening either. The Marvel games seem to be different people, same with the Star Wars stuff. Star Wars went straight to licensing as soon as they got bought up.
Shame as I have all the Marvel and Star Wars ones. Oh well... I guess they make good models to have on the shelf.
This is kind of surprising. Gaming is a growing industry, especially with smart phones and gaming systems becoming more powerful. I thought Disney Infinity had done pretty well for itself. I always saw displays in stores. I guess that was misleading. Disney is not usually one to license out their properties to third parties. They usually avoid that at all cost, wanting to keep everything in-house and under one roof. That has always been their style. It makes me wonder if there were any politics involved in this decision because it sounds like something that has been brewing for a while.
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"They note that Disney is accepting a $147 million charge for its discontinuation of the division."
I'm a little confused. A charge from whom to whom? What does this mean exactly? Is it just a way of saying they're writing off a corporate loss of $147 million?
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