Disney: "It's such a disruptive time in the industry"

Besides the Kingdom Hearts franchise... what other relevant game/franchise have they (Disney) offered during the last... 5... 10 years? damn... even probably 15 years! I really can't remember anything good coming from Disney

We've been so busy worrying about consoles we forgot about the actual game developers who are going to produce our games. The quality of gaming will only get worse.

I think there is a point here. This IS a very disruptive time for gaming. Games are supposed to be a stress relief and relatively pleasant, innocent distraction. Right now, there are so many things being interlaced with gaming that it's no longer quite that pure. The one company that is still focused on pure gaming is the most maligned at the moment, which is a quite a thing in light of Microsoft and their X-Box One needing a consistent connection to Kinect and the (possibly) paranoid view towards it. Sony SEEMS to be back on the rise but even they are more multimedia than pure gaming oriented, and while I think Nintendo is being maligned unfairly, it isn't as though they haven't been draconian in some of their own practices in the past both towards denying consumers what they wanted and by having very strict standards for their third party devs. Here I am wishing Sega hadn't totally screwed themselves over with horrible decisions in the 90s.

Oh I am SO very sorry for Disney that they have to adapt to the fact that they've tried to start up something big just as the 7th Console Generation ends.

Let's all band together and tell Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony not to give us 8th Gen Consoles for something like another year so Disney don't have to deal with the challenges presented by this...

The problem with mobile games is that they are crap. Angry Birds is a game but not what I would consider a real game. Do I have it on my phone? Sure. Would I buy it for my console? Ummmm NO. It is a game to pass the time. Games on phones are not meant to replace real games. Try controlling a real game using a touch screen and you realize why a controller is so much better.

I think the rise of the hardcore/casual dichotomy hit Disney especially hard. The 90s games produced by Capcom had dual appeal with iconic characters plus tight, refined gameplay. Now that gamers care about self-identifying as hardcore, Disney would have to again pair with a respectable core gaming studio to produce something that non-casuals will even consider touching.

Disney is becoming a dinosaur. They can't keep up with the changes being made by indie developers on popular devices. They can't own the theaters like they did back in the day, and with their resorts and amusement parks and merch which feed the D-Beast, the digital markets are breaking free from that kind of control, and the money is like someone exploded a bag of marbles and they can't pick them up fast enough because they've gotten too big and fat. So now this dude whines about how "bad" it is. Well, not for the little guys who are nailing big returns on original apps that can be sold cheap through iTunes and Google, etc. Thank God Disney doesn't own the internet or else we would see them throttling these pioneers who can't be owned because technology has liberated the artist from the confines of the sweatshop. /soapbox.

Cool story but lose the Brave pic, that move was terrible.

Well it is when you have no creative writers.

In 2005 the Xbox 360 came out bringing with it the expansive world of HD gaming just next year came the release of the wii with "advanced Motion controls" and the PS3. and now it the most ''disruptive" time in the industry because we have smart phone! Dude the only reason so many people play games on phones is because half the shit is free and the majority of the other half is less than $5.

Disney and intelligent in the same sentence? I don't think so...

you neglected to mention Disney shutting down LucusArts.

Planes looks awful, worse than Cars lol but it will probably sell

Phineas and Ferb, and Kingdom Hearts is still good for me.

If he's in the industry 19 years, you'd think he'd have seen more than one console changeover.

dafuq is he talking about disruptive?

disney is the one causing the disruption

Bill Roper<3, Hellgate London was the best Diablo 2 clone EVER... too bad it got the bad reception that it did. If only Bill Roper had been hired back in Blizzard, maybe then Diablo 3 wouldn't be as bad as it is today. Ah well, good luck in your further projects Bill.

So this is where Bill Roper ended up after failing horribly in Hellgate London and Champions Online.

Yes, competition in the marketplace is so disruptive, lol

After what Disney did to Propaganda and Black Rock, can we even say they have a Games Division?