@HauntedNostril I guess Nintendo didn't want to recycle them and sell them as official games because they would have been unaware of what the quality levels were of the product. The software itself could have contained viruses, the electronic hardware might not be up to the right quality and cause serious damage to consoles, etc... To use them they'd have to go through each cartridge, check the electronics safety of the cartridge, possibly replace numerous poor quality parts, re-write the EPROM with a genuine copy of the game with no extra code and then hope it was up to their standard.
One thing that did annoy me about these toys to life games is a little thing that was overlooked which was storage.
The TTL was a good idea but maybe it could have been made better if you could have just bought discs instead of the actual figures, and make the discs cheaper kind of like if you remember POGS back in the 90s.
You could also change it that the characters are sold in surprise packs, with some special characters thrown in kind of like Magic the gathering which has managed to last for years on this model, with the internet as well special characters could be loaded from the internet so the game could be expanded indefinitely and the person playing the game wouldn't need to store all the character data on their console only the specific character data for packs they own.
The thing is as well is its cost, if you produced cards with a basic RFID chip in them you could probably easily sell them at maybe £2 for a pack of 5 random cards, kids would then repeatedly buy the cards to try and get the special characters they want, and at £2 it's just pocket money - it's like those farming games on Facebook where you pay a couple of quid to get an advantage in the game, but some of the characters were in excess of £15-£20 per character. The figures were nice but they soon got a bit over the top, it's bad enough having younger kids with toyboxes full of toys without adding TTL toys to the mix where as RFID trading cards could be kept in a confined area, they could be produced cheaply and they could be traded easily, like in the scouts we have badges and everyone repeatedly tries to buy and trade unusual badges. The badges aren't massive figurines or anything, just basic woven badges but the different badges are sought after by both scouts and leaders, or baseball cards which are sought after too.
I've found the handy thing with Lego dimensions is that because it just uses the base with the RFID chip in it you can kind of do this with Lego Dimensions, it's just a shame they didn't sell the bases on their own without all the extra Lego bricks.
I'm guessing it wont be long then before some third party like Datel or Codemasters starts making them. Datel have always made third party adaptors that make games consoles and computers better, surprised to notice on Wikipedia that Datel is actually still going and their websites still live.
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@HauntedNostril I guess Nintendo didn't want to recycle them and sell them as official games because they would have been unaware of what the quality levels were of the product. The software itself could have contained viruses, the electronic hardware might not be up to the right quality and cause serious damage to consoles, etc... To use them they'd have to go through each cartridge, check the electronics safety of the cartridge, possibly replace numerous poor quality parts, re-write the EPROM with a genuine copy of the game with no extra code and then hope it was up to their standard.
Re: Activision CEO on the State of the Skylanders Series and Toys-to-Life
One thing that did annoy me about these toys to life games is a little thing that was overlooked which was storage.
The TTL was a good idea but maybe it could have been made better if you could have just bought discs instead of the actual figures, and make the discs cheaper kind of like if you remember POGS back in the 90s.
You could also change it that the characters are sold in surprise packs, with some special characters thrown in kind of like Magic the gathering which has managed to last for years on this model, with the internet as well special characters could be loaded from the internet so the game could be expanded indefinitely and the person playing the game wouldn't need to store all the character data on their console only the specific character data for packs they own.
The thing is as well is its cost, if you produced cards with a basic RFID chip in them you could probably easily sell them at maybe £2 for a pack of 5 random cards, kids would then repeatedly buy the cards to try and get the special characters they want, and at £2 it's just pocket money - it's like those farming games on Facebook where you pay a couple of quid to get an advantage in the game, but some of the characters were in excess of £15-£20 per character. The figures were nice but they soon got a bit over the top, it's bad enough having younger kids with toyboxes full of toys without adding TTL toys to the mix where as RFID trading cards could be kept in a confined area, they could be produced cheaply and they could be traded easily, like in the scouts we have badges and everyone repeatedly tries to buy and trade unusual badges. The badges aren't massive figurines or anything, just basic woven badges but the different badges are sought after by both scouts and leaders, or baseball cards which are sought after too.
I've found the handy thing with Lego dimensions is that because it just uses the base with the RFID chip in it you can kind of do this with Lego Dimensions, it's just a shame they didn't sell the bases on their own without all the extra Lego bricks.
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I'm guessing it wont be long then before some third party like Datel or Codemasters starts making them. Datel have always made third party adaptors that make games consoles and computers better, surprised to notice on Wikipedia that Datel is actually still going and their websites still live.