| Aielyn said: And I assume that you mean that they have always bought their franchises (please clarify if you meant something else). As for Skylanders, the game series is nowhere near as big as you seem to think. CoD sells over 25 million a year. Skylanders has sold less than 3 million across all platforms, with the majority being on Wii. It does not, at this point, show any signs of getting bigger. If it were up around 5-6 million, then maybe there'd be reason to expect it to become big. To make matters worse, they're already starting to milk it - within about 3 months of the first game releasing, they announced the sequel. They've also got a web game in development, they've released an illustrated novel, and they've openly spoken about the idea of TV shows and movies. Meanwhile, they're mostly big as a toy series, rather than a game series. |
Sorry typo
anyway CoD didn't start out as a 25 million unit franchise. Skylanders toys have constantly sold out and the toys is where they make their money with the franchise which they are looking to expand. Activision make money from every toy sold in case you didn't know...
Plus they have stuff comming up like Bungie, Titan, etc as well.
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