{"id":33330,"date":"2026-08-14T16:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=33330"},"modified":"2026-08-14T16:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:24:52","slug":"disney-has-9-gaming-franchises-that-have-generated-1-billion-at-retail-including-kingdom-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=33330","title":{"rendered":"Disney Has 9 Gaming Franchises That Have Generated $1 Billion+ At Retail, Including Kingdom Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disney has outlined just how powerful and important video games are to the company’s future. In a blog post ahead of D23–where Kingdom Hearts news is expected<\/a>–the company’s gaming boss, Sean Shoptaw, revealed that games are now a “fundamental part of the broader entertainment landscape.”<\/p>\n

He said<\/a> Disney has reaped the rewards, with nine of its gaming franchises grossing more than $1 billion at retail so far. “So, it\u2019s about telling truly original stories that really are unique to this medium, specifically,” he said.<\/p>\n

Some of these include Kingdom Hearts and Marvel Strike Force. Shoptaw added that more than half of the nine franchises have only appeared in the past 12 years. Disney runs multiple game outfits, including Disney Pixar Games, Marvel Games, Lucasfilm Games, and 20th Century Games, just to name a few, all of which live under the broader Disney Games banner.<\/p>\n

Disney Games has reached about $3.5 billion in consumer spend annually for the past four years, exceeding $4 billion in the past fiscal year alone. Shoptaw said this helps hammer home how gaming will be a “key part of Disney’s storytelling strategy in the present and the future.”<\/p>\n

He added that Disney isn’t necessarily all that interested in doing things like movie tie-ins, which were popular in the ’90s and early 2000s. Instead, he said Disney wants to create original games that tell new stories, with Shoptaw citing Marvel’s Wolverine<\/a> as a prime example.<\/p>\n

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