If nothing else, Activision is amazing at making money.
Source: http://investor.activision.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=916220Activision said:The award-winning, $3 billion Skylanders franchise has sold through more than 250 million action figures since pioneering the toys-to-life category in 2011 with the debut of Skylanders® Spyro's Adventure.
Source: http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/3/871...rgers-release-date-vehicles-vicarious-visionsPolygon said:That's the kind of attention to detail that has kept Skylanders at the top of the toys-to-life market of video games: The genre has racked up more than $4 billion in sales of games and figures since the debut of Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, and the Skylanders series is responsible for over $3 billion of that. Even in the face of competition from Disney Infinity, amiibo and new entrants to the market this year, Skylanders continues to sell. That's without any ties to established brands or properties other than its own back catalog no Star Wars, no Avengers, no Simpsons, no Lord of the Rings.