Disney Discontinues Disney Infinity and Interactive Division

<p>Disney has released its <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;ditm-twdc-us&period;storage&period;googleapis&period;com&sol;q2&lowbar;fy16&lowbar;earnings&period;pdf">yearly earnings report today<&sol;a>&semi; showing a 3&period;5 percent decrease in shares over the past twelve months&period; For gaming fans&comma; today is a sad day&comma; though&comma; as Disney announced in this earnings report that it is no longer going to be publishing games&comma; and will be discontinuing its <em>Disney Infinity<&sol;em> line of games and figures after the release of Finding Dory&&num;8217&semi;s play set&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This news comes two months after it was reported by Kotaku that there will be <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;no-big-disney-infinity-release-this-year-but-plenty-of-1762182599" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">no new <em>Disney Infinity<&sol;em> version release<&sol;a> this year after the developer released yearly Edition updates since the game launched in 2013&period; There is a bright spot for <em>Disney Infinity<&sol;em> fans&comma; however&comma; as there will be two new releases in May and June before the series is entirely done&period; The first will be based on the new <em>Alice through the Looking Glass<&sol;em> film while the second will be for the release of <em>Finding Dory<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The news first hit on Twitter when it was announced by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;benfritz&sol;status&sol;730133417506045952" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Ben Fritz<&sol;a>&comma; a journalist at the Wall Street Journal&semi; however GM Blackburn also responded to the news on <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;disneyinteractive&period;com&sol;blog&sol;update-disney-infinity&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Disney Interactive’s blog<&sol;a>&comma; stating –<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>From the beginning&comma; Disney Infinity was built for you—our fans—and I wanted to take a moment to thank you not just for your support over the years&comma; but for creating a community that made Disney Infinity more than just a game&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Our goal for Disney Infinity was to bring the best of Disney storytelling to life in homes around the world&comma; and with your support&comma; we accomplished that&period; We hope you had as much fun playing the game as we had making it&period;<&sol;em>”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As a part of closing Disney’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Self-Published Console Games business&comma;” Ben Fritz also announced on Twitter that <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;benfritz&sol;status&sol;730139798552350721" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Disney would be closing Avalanche Studios in Utah<&sol;a>&comma; which would cause roughly 300 jobs to be cut as a part of this closure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While Disney’s earnings report for the quarter was somewhat disappointing&comma; the outlook is good for Disney if the numbers for <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cnbc&period;com&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;07&sol;civil-war-set-to-launch-marvel-disney-into-new-territory&period;html"><em>Captain America&colon; Civil War&&num;8217&semi;s <&sol;em>&dollar;182 million domestic opening<&sol;a><em>&comma;  <&sol;em>and its other media properties are anything to go by&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sources&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;ditm-twdc-us&period;storage&period;googleapis&period;com&sol;q2&lowbar;fy16&lowbar;earnings&period;pdf">The Walt Disney Company<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;no-big-disney-infinity-release-this-year-but-plenty-of-1762182599">Kotaku<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;benfritz&sol;status&sol;730133417506045952">Ben Fritz &lpar;on Twitter&rpar;<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;benfritz&sol;status&sol;730139798552350721">&lpar;2&rpar;<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;disneyinteractive&period;com&sol;blog&sol;update-disney-infinity&sol;">Disney Interactive<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cnbc&period;com&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;07&sol;civil-war-set-to-launch-marvel-disney-into-new-territory&period;html">CNBC<&sol;a>&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;