I mentioned before sports titles like WWE, UFC etc, who
release yearly updates and that's become the norm, and that's where I think Disney Infinity is headed, while the figures and power discs can be brought along for the ride.
Last year, Disney had said that if Disney Infinity was a success (& it has been), they would be
releasing yearly updates, but the figures / discs would be backwards and forward compilable, in a similar way to how Skylanders works.
Of all the fighting game series to grace the arcade, none has been as consistent in
releasing a yearly update in some form than The King of Fighters by SNK Playmore.
This will come as no surprise, bearing in mind Activision Blizzard's penchant for
releasing yearly updates to it's Call of Duty and Guitar Hero franchises.
Not exact matches
Since 2007 we've seen
yearly OS
releases (with subreleases in between them) and
yearly hardware
updates.
At some point I conceded that the hack - and - slash genre, specifically Dynasty Warriors, was moving the way of
yearly sports
releases with its incremental
updates and almost - annual
releases.
As a reminder, the Semi-Annual Channel is our newly aligned terminology with Office 365 ProPlus for the twice -
yearly feature
update releases that replaces Windows Current Branch (CB) and Current Branch for Business (CBB) concepts.
Google's Android refresh cycle usually carries a duo of
yearly updates — one that noticeably seems like a step forward bringing a range of new interface elements and another follow - up
release which largely aims to mend the rough edges Google left with the former, performance bumps and a couple of minor UI refinements as well.
The first Logitech trackball mouse was the TrackMan serial mouse in 1989 — throughout the 1990s, Logitech
released an
updated trackball mouse on an almost
yearly schedule before slowing production to just a few models from 2002 onward.
In some ways, the iPad
release schedule is starting to resemble its Mac counterparts, rather than its iOS origins:
Update when there's a good reason to update, rather than a yearly timing
Update when there's a good reason to
update, rather than a yearly timing
update, rather than a
yearly timing cycle.