“Giants is a thought for a future,” Toys for Bob CEO and growth lead Paul Reiche III told me during an speak this morning, only forward of this weekend’s Toy Fair 2012. His company’s latest project, Skylanders, is adult for an endowment during a large show, not to discuss an endowment or dual during DICE 2012 (also this week), yet he’s already looking into a future. To an extent, during least.
“In terms of a Wii U, we’re looking during it,” he pronounced in response to a doubt per a Wii U’s recently announced NFC functionality — functionality that’s unequivocally identical to that found in a RFID-enabled Skylanders. “All of a sum about a NFC record haven’t been expelled to a open yet, and it’s unequivocally interesting,” Reiche added, yet he wouldn’t nudge on how most knowledge his association had with a Wii U’s tech only nonetheless (“I can’t speak about that, I’m afraid.”).
As for that other Skylanders diversion that was announced currently — a mobile one — Reiche was means to be a bit some-more verbose, yet not much. “We will be carrying new mobile compared with Giants, yet we are also still operative on a unequivocally fun knowledge regulating your toys in a Skylanders universe that’s for mobile,” he told me. So, dual games then! “I played it, we like it, we don’t know what a recover report is. This one isn’t being implemented within Toys for Bob,” Reiche added.
So, how does it work? Reiche couldn’t get too specific, yet he did contend it’ll use a web-based Skylanders knowledge to pull information to a mobile game. “No NFC phone necessary. We wish anyone to be means to suffer it. We wish someone who only buys a fondle to have a suggestive experience
Article source: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/07/skylanders-creative-lead-eying-wii-us-nfc-for-the-future-mobil/
