Vi bør naturligvis huske på, at Microsoft nu har købt Activision Blizzard, og at der derfor er ikke er noget der som sådan er sikkert, men det lader til at virksomheden alligevel har planer om at genoplive to af deres berømte serier der er i dvale.
I et interview med VentureBeat siger snart daværende CEO Bobby Kotick, at både Guitar Hero og Skylanders bør blive genoplivet:
"You look at all the opportunities that we get with a company like Microsoft. I'll give you one great example. [Xbox boss] Phil and I started riffing on things for the future. I'll give you three that are really compelling. I wanted to make a new Guitar Hero for a while, but I don't want to add teams to do manufacturing and supply chain and QA for manufacturing. And the chip shortages are enormous. We didn't really have the ability to do that. I had a really cool vision for what the next Guitar Hero would be, and realized we don't have the resources to do that."
"And Skylanders too. One of the great disappointments of my career is that other people came in and they came out with crappy alternatives. And they dumped all of these crappy alternatives in the market, and basically destroyed the market for what was a really cool future opportunity.
If you look at Skylanders, with its hardware and manufacturing and supply chain, there are the same kinds of things that we can't do but Microsoft can."
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