darkSpyro

Some people say 4 and other people say 2?????

well,4 player is for online racing and 2 for stores

For the Story, it's 2. For the Racing, it's 4.

I've never heard any other word to describe story mode other than "co-op" online or otherwise.

As always, story mode will be limited to 2 players.

Aw man...4 players would have been cool

For now, 4 players in Story is too much. Like, imagine 4 Giants in the stage at the same time? And, if it's just one vehicle in the zones, imagine 4 players controling the vehicle at the same time.

Yeah 4 players could have been good, specially if pvp had been included. Imagine you and your friend vs two other guys...epic battles.

Four player for story mode would be much more difficult. One thing to keep in mind, the more players you have the more enemies you need on the screen (and coordinated over the network). Games like Diablo handle this by ramping up the enemies when more players join, but Skylanders has typically very scripted encounters they would have a tougher time inserting more "cannon fodder" to keep 4 players busy and challenged. The last thing you would want is to turn the game into a cakewalk in 4 player online mode.

Also, the geometry would need to be larger to handle more players and enemies wandering around. This results in the environment feeling "empty" when playing single player. Racing is different, the tracks are designed to have a certain number of vehicles, whether 1 of them is a player or 4 are.