Quote: CountMoneyBoneQuote: newkillThey will not announce that there is no game in 2017 before the last Imaginators toys have been released.
And that announcement will probably say "no Skylanders game planned for 2017" rather than "the Skylanders series is cancelled".
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if they say they have cancelled the game series, thats like shooting themselves in the foot. because they have still a lot of plastic figures to get outta the door. i dont think we will hear the word cancelled at all, the wording "no Skylanders game planned for 2017" is exactly what we will hear from them. because im sure activision will
go back to the series at some point. like after the nintendo have their switch out on the marked.
This is not terribly likely, at least not in a 3-5 year period. Skylanders isn't like other games, not even games like Guitar Hero. Skylanders requires at least a 4-foot shelf section in any given retailer, and more typically, they get 8 feet. The stores have to allocate that shelf space, they have to say "yeah, we'll give you this precious 8 feet of shelving, because we believe in what you are selling." After the death of Disney Infinity, the death of that Marvel Toys to Life game thing, and the (potential) death of Skylanders, reatilers like Wal-Mart are not going to be very forgiving about that shelf space. They are going to say "well, we carried your products for 6 years, and they sold really well for 3 of those years, but then we started getting overstocked and losing sellthrough, we don't want to take that chance again." If Skylanders goes away for a year or two, it is going to be a tough sell getting it on shelves again. Plus, part of the reason it succeeded in the first place was because Toys to Life was new, and people love new, shiny things. Toys to Life will never be new again. IF Imaginators is the last game for "a while," it is going to be a long while, like maybe an entire console generation while. Or more. Also remember that New York Toy Fair is entirely about vendors showing their new products to the press, and to store buyers every year, trying to get that shelf space and build hype, and Skylanders wasn't even at Toy Fair this year, after showing every other year. There were even Toy Fair exclusives a few years.
And to touch on something Drawdler has been talking about, games get cancelled, like, hard cancelled, in mid development all the time. As in, you have been working on this game for over a year, but we are cancelling it, it all gets trashed. Games have been cancelled within months of release before. Games have been cancelled while in playable Beta form. Just earlier this year, Fable Legends got cancelled after being in Beta for several months, and development for several years.
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