Layoffs at Activision After Guitar Hero, Skylanders Underperform

Of course Guitar Hero underperformed.
You make the moronic, asinine mistake of putting fucking dubstep in a guitar simulator.
As for Skylanders, even the kids will get pissed off at you if they have to keep buying new games and toys.What, you thought that releasing a new game every year was a good idea? Even Assassin's Creed is taking a break from that bullshittery.

Activision: Governed By Asshats

""Activision also said SuperChargers and Guitar Hero Live struggled as a result of "the casual audience's shift to mobile devices."" *shakes fist*

"damn you casuals""

I really hope the under-performance of Skylanders brings back Spyro.

Are people bored of skylanders or did they finally see how silly the concept was?

That sucks

I'm not surprised Skylanders and Guitar Hero under performed

For Guitar Hero and Rock band as well i think the music genre is pretty much still dead. Rock Band at least let people use their old DLC but i don't think people were interested in learning a new guitar and new game. The game was kind of fun though, at least the demo.

Skylanders i heard was the weakest Skylanders game to date, and the vehicles, people just didn't dig collecting them compared to the more interesting characters or giants. I thought the giants and swap force gimmicks were cool. Trap Team and Vehicles seem lame. Then you have Disney Infinity releasing Star Wars content on the heels of a new Star Wars movie. Finally Lego Dimensions has the Lego branding and is just a great game. No wonder Skylanders is struggling when the other two are doing so well.

I do feel for the people laid off, that really sucks.

"Oh no, expensive plastic toys are not as profitable anymore (possibly because of a saturated market)! Whatever should we do now?"

well no one saw this coming........

Rock Band live underperforming was as surprising as Ricky Martin coming out. Who could have predicted hipsters performing Minipop songs would have flopped. Maybe try ROCK SONGS next time.

I don't know why Guitar Hero Live was well received by critics.
In all honestly, it looked like crap. I liked animated scene. They needed something much different to bring back players... much different.

Skylanders? That market is WAY oversaturated now. Keep releasing a new one every year, it's going to bite you in the behind.
Disney, Nintendo, & now LEGO... it'd cost literally a small fortune (many thousands) if you got every character for every game.

The only long term priority they have is milking as much money from idiots as possible.

Good. I hope this whole corporation and all of these greedy developers all die off so good, creative games can be made again that we can all enjoy.

Activision you have nobody to blame put yourself greed blinded your vision you put out so many of these music games that people got tired of it and stop buying it now you are trying to resurrect it but its too late, call of duty is still selling but the sales keeping declining this means you are not growing the franchise you are slowly killing it,

Stop giving people the same thing every year take a page out of grand theft autos book now that is a franchise that keeps growing and its being around since 1997.

Activision killed the music game genre, and Skylanders is a scam. Good to see their cynical cash grabs failing.

Skylanders Giants was a lot of fun to play with my son, but series is such a rip-off, needing a new portal and Starter-Pack for every game.

Luckily, I was able to find him a Sypro Adventures Disc without having to buy the complete Starter Pack

Are any of the newer portals interchangeable at all?

No surprise here - Guitar Hero sucked so bad.

I bought the game for 80$ and literally sold it the next day.

I think I heard that the latest Disney Infinity under-performed as well. I wonder if this is a sign that those kinds of games are losing popularity.

As for Guitar Hero Live, that just looked awful.