Activision Announces Skylanders Series Revenue Breaks $2 Billion

Recently, the publisher revealed that its Skylanders series has exceeded $2 billion since its inception in 2011. Although a large part of this revenue comes from game sales, the company announced that Skylanders' sales and surrounding sales have also exceeded 175 million.

Skylanders is a children's game that connects physical toys to the digital world. Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, Skylanders: Giants and Skylanders: Swap Force can be connected to the Portal of Power via a USB port. Players can interface the corresponding Skylanders toys and immediately operate the corresponding characters in the game. Toys can also store data automatically, so players can rank them and get new weapons, and they can continue playing when they bring their toys to friends.

This model has made Skylanders toys more popular than the very popular Star Wars and Transformers. Since its launch, Activision has sold more than 175 million Skylanders toys.

Activision confirmed that a new Skylanders game will be released this year, and Toys For Bob, the developer of the series, is working hard to develop new games for 2014.