Activision originally began the Skylanders series with Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure in 2011 and it’s been paying in dividends ever since. Activision announced today as part of it’s quarterly financial report that the Skylanders series has grossed more than $2 billion worldwide across all available platforms, as of the end of last year. Activision has sold about 175 million Skylanders toys, which can be collected and summoned in game as playable characters.
The latest game in the series, Skylanders: SWAP Force, was released on October 13th of last year for all current generation consoles. It can be purchased in a bundle with the Wii U.
This is interesting to hear. Have any of you played any of the Skylanders games? Are you surprised to hear it sold this many units?
[Source: Joystiq]
