GameStop’s exclusive Skylanders Swap Force Dark Edition is the most ambitious retail exclusive put out by Activision for the Skylanders franchise thus far. For $99 bucks you get the game along with “dark” editions of five Skylanders that aren’t available anywhere else, and likely never will be.
With next generation versions of Skylanders Swap Force just around the corner, I started wondering if Activision would offer Dark Editions for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The only way to find out for certain was to ask Activision directly, and that’s precisely what I did.
Unfortunately the answer isn’t what I, and I am assuming you, wanted to hear. Activision is definitely not creating Dark Editions for the next-gen consoles. If you were holding out on current-gen in opes of picking up a Dark Edition for Xbox One or PS4, please don’t. If you really want those Dark Edition Skylanders, better get them now because they will surely sell out before the holidays are over.
Despite the lack of a Dark Edition, I do highly recommend the next-gen version of Swap Force as it is a gorgeous game running in 1080p and has some graphic tweaks not present on the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U version. You won’t be disappointed.
