I got a copy of Skylanders for my kids on Black Friday. The reviews have been good, and I was personally impressed when I played around with the game at PAX Prime 2011, but I've recently started to wonder where that technology will turn up next.
And there's no doubt that we'll be seeing this tech turn up somewhere else--we're talking about Activision here. The company that milked Guitar Hero until the teat fell off.
What's effectively been done here with Skylanders is convert DLC into a retail store purchase. Will we soon find ourselves going to Toys R Us to buy a new avatar for COD? Maybe even buying prime gear at the same time? Or maybe the next stinker of a Spider-Man game will encorporate the tech somehow.
Is this even something that we as gamers want to see happen? For single player and couch co-op games like Skylanders, it's not a huge problem. But, would that change if you're online getting smoked by someone who was just lucky enough to find the most powerful action figure in stock at the toy store?
These are the questions that we need to explore, because like I said earlier, this is Activision: they can't NOT milk this idea dry. All we can do is hope that the next implementation makes sense.
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