Disney Infinity Claims It Sold More Than Skylanders Last Year, Activision Disagrees

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if an Elsa or Ironman figurine outsold the entire Skylanders line.

Disney characters (which also includes Star Wars and Marvel characters) vs Skylanders, whose biggest character is Spyro, a mascot character who's been widely forgotten about or is mostly unknown to anyone besides those of us who were big fans or aware of the character at his peak.

Pretty sure that Infinity dominating is inevitable. It hasn't been out nearly as long, hasn't even dipped into the Star Wars well yet and is already at least equals with Skylanders which was the dominant name before Disney entered the market. If Disney wouldn't have sold Power Rangers back to Saban they probably could have used them too for even further market dominance.

If only Nintendo did something like this for a Pokemon game with figurines that worked like the Amiibos.

If Nintendo produces more of Wave 1 and 2 of Amiibo's, they would say they sold more than Skylanders too lol.

I'm pretty sure Disney Infinity will take over Skylanders. It just has too much hugely popular characters and franchises to draw on for it not to imo.

After buying all these figures for the first three skylanders games in done with this. Its just too much money for one game

like pokemon but more expensive.

Skylanders seems to be more popular with the kids in my area than Disney Infinity. Personally, I think the toys-to-life concept is annoying. It gets old having to switch out characters (and now traps) so often.

I think Skylanders Trap Team is a step back from Swap Force. First they make you buy all new (expensive) skylanders to access the elemental areas (which weren't needed in all previous versions of the game). Most elemental areas weren't even long or interesting in this game. Then they add more elemental areas, and require the purchase of even more expensive adventure packs to access them. Further, they seemed to insert even more unskippable scripting into the game...which isn't even interesting to listen to the first time through. Lastly, the thing that really grates me is the toy availability. There should be plenty of toys released prior to Christmas that allow you to access everything in the game.

Skylanders Swap Force was better than Trap Team, because it had more variety. The mini-games made for the swapable skylanders were fun to play and provided a refreshing break from the main game mechanics. Toys for Bob adds more of the same with the infuriatingly long, repetitive Kaos mode arena. I thought the final boss fight was insanely difficult/repetitive/way too time consuming (on Nightmare mode) as well. There aren't many children who would actually bother with it for the xbox achievement.

That's because Activision lies. Marvel toys are the #1 Toy line, so when you combine it with a video game, it's pretty clear it would be the biggest. You just have to stop with the lies, Activision. You've lost to the better company, give it up. Even to parents buying for their kids, what's easier to remember? A Disney/Marvel figure that EVERYONE knows, or some little monster figure that looks the same as all the others?

I also bought 2 versions of Disney Infinity 2.0 last year, one on 360 and one on PS4. Still sitting at zero Skylanders games and figures.

But hey, it's ok Activision. We all know Skylanders is dead this coming Winter when Disney Infinity Star Wars is released to fit in the release of Episode 7. Your investors know it as well.

I believe it. In 2014 I bought 3 Infinity games(1 copy of 1.0 and two copies of 2.0) and 24 figures. Before anyone says anything about being rich, I traded in tons of s&*t in order to get most of those. That game is more entertaining than most of what I already had.

Skylanders has just gone way over the top with the number of characters. They suck kids in with the in game videos of the other characters they find. We stopped at Swapforce.

Infinity 2.0 came to our place for Christmas.

Disney could give you more bang for your buck and let you play with any character in any playset. Who gives a crap if it doesn't make sense that captain jack sparrow is running around with the Incredibles or if Groot pays a visit to the Avengers. It's supposed to be endless possibilities.

I think Disney and Nintendo have an extra card to play that Activision doesn't. And that's the collectible hook that grabs adults as well as children.

The impossible to find Kaos trap, 3 months after launch, is the final straw for this family. We don't have an Infinity, but we won't be buying anymore Skylanders. My son would much rather buy a Lego game for $30 than spend the same amount on figures just to unlock some minor portion of a game that doesn't really have much story or play variety in the first place.

My kids have sooooooo many Skylander figures and every game since the 1st one, I don't see a switch to the disney game in our house

Capitalist pigs.

Activision is going to bury this genre anyway, at the rate they're going. A Skylanders game has been released every year for the past four years. Three of those four required players to buy a starter pack to play (the first game was obvious, but not futureproofing the third or fourth game sounds like greed).

I'd imagine Skylanders is the leader because it was the first one out of the gate. But as others have said, Disney has character/franchise muscle that Skylanders doesn't have. Remember: Frozen is apparently the highest grossing movie of all time.

Disney, ABC, Marvel, Star Wars... the checkmate is inevitable...

LOL Toy Wars.

How cute, companies arguing about how much DLC they have fleeced out of their customers.

If this article was about Assassin's creed and Destiny arguing about how much DLC they have sold, the pitchforks would be out.

Its all fun and games until Nintendo releases a Amiibo focused adventure game. Or a HD Pokemon game with a new line of Pokemon Amiibos.

Enter the "Amiibos"...Ta da!

Brace yourselves for the toys-to-life wars has begun, the world will never see peace again.

Disney: "I sold more!"
Activision: "No! I sold more!"
Disney: "Nuh-uh!"
Activision: "Yuh-uh!"
Disney: "Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum! Activision's making me feel bad!"

Children.. honestly.