Disney Infinity discs to contain future movie assets

Disney Infinity discs will contain assets for the next 12 months of content plans, which means hackers may spoil future movie PR plans.

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Disney Infinity, the ambitious game that brings together various Disney franchises, is being pitched as a "platform" that will constantly update with new toys and playsets to collect. That means the team at Avalanche will be preparing to roll out characters for unreleased Disney movies, and part of that includes putting some future assets on the disc.

VideoGamer reports that Disney Infinity will get a new version every year, updated with content to cover the next 12 months. The version that releases this June, then, would presumably have assets for content coming all the way through June 2014. Executive producer John Vignocchi says he has warned the film producers that their upcoming characters could be outed before their time if hackers poke around in the data.

"There's absolute potential that people are going to see characters prior to their PR campaigns kicking off if someone does that," he said, "but we're hoping that isn't something that is widespread reported because then people are going to start looking for it, and it's going to ruin the magic for the consumer."

This is a temporary measure, he said, to account for the data limitations of current consoles. "In the future, as we move on to new versions of consoles we're going to be able to digitally deliver that content, and the figurines themselves will simply be dongles that allow us to then instantiate a download of that content."

He also pointed out that Skylanders ran a similar risk, putting its expansions on the disc. But since Disney Infinity features established properties, it may be more prone to hackers curious to see what's coming up.

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    January 24, 2013 1:30 PM

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    Disney Infinity discs will contain assets for the next 12 months of content plans, which means hackers may spoil future movie PR plans.

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      January 24, 2013 2:04 PM

      "...but we're hoping that isn't something that is widespread reported because then people are going to start looking for it, and it's going to ruin the magic for the consumer."

      It's a good thing there isn't a high speed interconnected network of computers around the entire planet with only a few major hubs for people to share information on. I mean, if that was the case, Disney's hope would be totally unrealistic.

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      January 24, 2013 2:30 PM

      Hahaha why tell us this, how stupid can you be? I guess they want us to find it.

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        January 24, 2013 2:32 PM

        absolutely worst case they get a great viral marketing seeding of their new franchises.

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      January 24, 2013 8:38 PM

      Hahahaha before they make plans to release a new version every year, they should wait and see if people like it first. Even games centered around kids only have so much sales appeal if the game sucks.

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      January 24, 2013 9:27 PM

      wtf. Before this announcement it would have been 'hackers MAY spoil future movie PR plans', now it is 'hackers WILL spoil future movie PR plans'. Stupid.

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      January 24, 2013 9:39 PM

      AKA Star Wars, Marvel characters

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