Most of you probably haven’t heard of Skylanders, but it’s a children’s video game (that’s fun for adults too, myself included) that combines classic plastic toy marketing with virtual content. They’re preparing a new version called “Skylanders Giants”, and there has been a slow trickle of information coming out about it in preparation. Wired’s Andy Robertson has some kids in love with the game, like myself, and created a small infographic showing how the current figures will interact with the new figures, in hopes of explaining things to his kids.
They had been planning how to spend their pocket money and wanted to make the best decisions over which figures to buy now and which they should wait for new versions of in Skylanders Giants. Their “research” has involved regular visits to the Skylanders Giants Amazon pages in various countries to search for details.
Drawing on news from the launch event and press releases, we ended up drawing a few Venn diagrams and constructing the following tables to help make sense of what was coming up in the new game.
via Top 3 Skylanders Giants Compatibility Tips | GeekDad | Wired.com.
