Disney Infinity writer downplays Skylanders similarities
6 views - published on May 1st, 2013 in Disney News tagged Disney, disney news, disneyland, walt disney, walt disney worldDisney Interative executive writer John Vignocchi has oral out to downplay a similarities between Disney Infinity and Activision’s Skylanders series. Speaking with Polygon, Vignocchi certified some similarities do exist, though claimed that overall, Infinity is a singular game.
“There are similarities, in that we have figures, though a similarities stop there,” Vignocchi said. “Infinity is dictated to be a height for all things Disney. The playsets inside of Infinity are new and strange stories. They are open-world games.”
Another poignant differentiating factor, according to Vignocchi, is Disney Infinity’s Toy Box mode, that allows gamers to make whatever they want.
“And afterwards of march a Toy Box mode is some-more Minecraft-meets-LittleBigPlanet,” he said. “It’s something totally opposite where we concede kids to use their imagination and take a brands to build whatever they want.”
When Disney Infinity launches in August, it will have most work to do to locate adult with Activision’s Skylanders series, that has minted some-more than $1 billion worldwide to date from a sale of over 100 million toys.
Activision is not disturbed about Disney’s attainment in a toys-to-life market. The Call of Duty association pronounced in Jan that it is unfazed by Disney’s pierce and is good positioned to continue to be a genre marketplace leader.