Skylanders Vs. Disney

A few months back I wrote about the next generation of Playstation vs. Xbox and how backwards compatibility should have worked its way into the systems. Here we have another choice before us in regards to the swappable games that are coming to the table this year. A couple years back, Skylanders swept the world and parents groaned at 32 characters priced at $10 each. The next year, they introduced Giants priced at $15 each along with a new set of characters. As such, a fortune was spent on these things.

Disney has decided, as Disney tends to do, to use this tech and make their own swappable game called Disney Infinity, which takes their extensive catalog of characters and makes them into figurines you can play with in their game. It's going up against Skylanders 3, called Swap Force, which takes that tech a step further by allowing certain characters to have mix and match arms and legs. The catch for this is that the new Skylanders games takes a new portal. It might or might not take the old characters (probably will), but that means for all intents and purposes, we (who did purchase the last two games) will be starting over since our old portal won't work on the new game.

With Giants, the old portal worked, and the game functioned as a sort of upgrade to the first one, so we just got the game with the included Giant but no portal, and simply built up the collection while using our old Skylanders. Now, with the need to start over, we're leaning toward the Disney game for its familiarity and just having a new game to play instead of a rehash of an old one. And since Skylanders was expensive to play, we will likely go with only one of the games since we'll want all of the characters. However, unlike the way we did the Skylanders, where everyone got whatever characters they wanted (meaning we have multiples of several characters) and maintained their one character, we're only going to get one set of characters for everyone to use. Cuts down on that expense and the question of who wants what. We see one we don't have, and we'll pick it up.

Will we get the Skylanders Swap Force eventually? I couldn't say at this point. We're kind of over it and looking forward the allure of the Disney version of the figurine game.