{"id":6331,"date":"2016-05-10T14:13:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T21:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/?p=6331"},"modified":"2016-05-10T14:41:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T21:41:30","slug":"disney-infinity-is-discontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/collectibles\/disney-infinity-is-discontinued\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Infinity is Discontinued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disneyinteractive.com\/blog\/update-disney-infinity\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">official statement<\/a> posted moments ago on an official Disney blog, Disney Infinity has been discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>The Disney Infinity 3.0 video game and related action figure recently included Boba Fett. The game also added cool things like Slave I.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/games\/disney-infinity-3-0-confirms-boba-fett\/\">inclusion of Boba Fett<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/games\/disney-infinity-3-0-confirms-slave-i-hints-at-boba-fett\/\">Slave I<\/a> were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/multimedia\/disney-infinity-3-0-gameplay-with-boba-fett\/\">quite nice highlights<\/a> of the release, which was otherwise fraught with timing issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Sony &#8220;timed exclusive&#8221; was the only way to get him in 2015. Then, a wide release set for January 2016 was quietly changed again and again. Europe got him first, which led to a lot of confusion here in the United States. Only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/collectibles\/finally-an-individual-release-date-for-disney-infinity-3-0-boba-fett\/\">starting March 15, 2016<\/a> could fans in North America finally could get him in stores without a Sony bundle or paying high markup for international orders.<\/p>\n<p>According to the industry trades like <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2016\/05\/disney-infinity-shuts-down-as-disney-drops-out-of-game-publishing\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica<\/a>, which all clearly embargoed the story until the official announcement dropped, Disney is getting out of the game publishing business entirely, claiming a $147,000,000 loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an official statement posted moments ago on an official Disney blog, Disney Infinity has been discontinued. The Disney...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectibles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6335,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions\/6335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}