Wasn't Skylanders this year considered a weak entry? I'm not sure the game underperformed because of competition or because it just wasnt' as good.
Nope. Actually the best one and the one with less recquired toys to beat. Like you can even play the entire gane online and offline with the digital version (no portal and no additional figures).
stop with the madcatz misleading bullshit
they even said in their pr note rock band did better than they thought it was the other shit that didnt
They mentioned RB4 doing well but everything around it not meeting expectations aside the full band bundles. The conference call sounded a bit contradictory to some because they started saying it performed well, but later added that it didn't met expectations. Which can happen.
They even mentioned directly "the competition" as reasons why especially the guitar bundle performed well bellow and the bad performance in Europe.
Common sense speaking, if I'm to collect toy-to-life figures, I would collect Disney/Marvel's or Nintendo's, not Spyro and friends. Skylanders was the only game in town for a long time. How are the others doing comparatively?
Not as well as some might expect.
The Star Wars side of Infinity did great, but everything else didn't. And after all this years is still Mike Wazowski from Infinity 1.0 the top selling figure.
Lego Dimensions in sales hasn't been doing as hot with stores either, selling out their initial stock or reducing the price to sell it, but not ordering or receiving older ones just new ones. And WBs lack of any mention of it performance.