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Amiibo figurine discussion (Wii U / New 3DS / Switch)
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Amiibo news!
Also, there are 2 new Wii U bundles, with the price (disappointingly) staying at $300. One has Nintendo Land and Super Mario 3D World, and the Walmart-exclusive one pairs Nintendo Land with Mario Kart 8.
Nintendo has just announced the first 12 amiibo figurines that will be available this Holiday season. Each amiibo will retail for just $12. It’s a decent price. You can see all the information in the press release down below.
“The holiday shopping season begins today for Nintendo fans, as the first 12 amiibo interactive figures become available for pre-order at a suggested retail price of just $12.99 each. The first dozen characters available for pre-order at select retailers are Mario, Peach, Link, Samus, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Pikachu, Kirby, Fox, Marth, Villager and Wii Fit Trainer, with more on the way in the future.
• Interactive amiibo Figures: Nintendo’s foray into the toys-to-life category starts today, with the first 12 amiibo figures available to pre-order from select retailers. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, which launches this holiday season, will be the first game with full integration of amiibo functionality. Other games that will support amiibo include Mario Kart 8, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Mario Party 10 and Yoshi’s Woolly World, with more to come. More details on amiibo functionality with the various games and a launch date will be revealed shortly.”
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“The holiday shopping season begins today for Nintendo fans, as the first 12 amiibo interactive figures become available for pre-order at a suggested retail price of just $12.99 each. The first dozen characters available for pre-order at select retailers are Mario, Peach, Link, Samus, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Pikachu, Kirby, Fox, Marth, Villager and Wii Fit Trainer, with more on the way in the future.
• Interactive amiibo Figures: Nintendo’s foray into the toys-to-life category starts today, with the first 12 amiibo figures available to pre-order from select retailers. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, which launches this holiday season, will be the first game with full integration of amiibo functionality. Other games that will support amiibo include Mario Kart 8, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Mario Party 10 and Yoshi’s Woolly World, with more to come. More details on amiibo functionality with the various games and a launch date will be revealed shortly.”
Source: Nintendo PR
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I assume they can only be used with the Wii U at launch unless they release the 3DS portal early.
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I'm less excited about the amiibos having seen this:
http://tay.kotaku.com/nintendo-fans-...-qu-1650977502
http://tay.kotaku.com/nintendo-fans-...-qu-1650977502
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I'm less excited about the amiibos having seen this:
http://tay.kotaku.com/nintendo-fans-...-qu-1650977502
http://tay.kotaku.com/nintendo-fans-...-qu-1650977502
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Direct from Nintendo, info about Amiibo interaction with Mario Kart 8:
Extremely minor but a neat little bonus if you happen to have one of those Amiibos. We don't know if that's the extent of it, but...
Extremely minor but a neat little bonus if you happen to have one of those Amiibos. We don't know if that's the extent of it, but...
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They look fine for $13 each. If you a want high, detailed statue, you're going to spend $40+. (and I would know since I own several)
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Too bad they won't look anything like this.
Adam Tyner explained it to me earlier in this thread but honestly I still have no idea what purpose they serve.
I'm not familiar with Skylanders (I'm aware but don't know anything about it) so I'm not exactly sure what they'd do as it is.
I'm not familiar with Skylanders (I'm aware but don't know anything about it) so I'm not exactly sure what they'd do as it is.
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Supposedly you can grow the experience of your Amiibos while you play as them and then you can have them fight against other people's Amiibos, fight against them yourself, or fight alongside them against others. So as your experience grows, they grow and it would provide you with a balanced opponent or ally.
And then there are the rumblings that they'll be able to be used in other games as well, although how is unclear at this point in time. The most likely candidates for crossover games seem to be things like Mario Party, Mario Kart, and Hyrule Warriors. I believe I read something about the Link Amiibo already being compatible with the Hyrule Warriors game. I think some other games are getting ready to incorporate them, but it's unclear how.
And then there are the rumblings that they'll be able to be used in other games as well, although how is unclear at this point in time. The most likely candidates for crossover games seem to be things like Mario Party, Mario Kart, and Hyrule Warriors. I believe I read something about the Link Amiibo already being compatible with the Hyrule Warriors game. I think some other games are getting ready to incorporate them, but it's unclear how.
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What we know so far:
Super Smash Bros. - level up figures as either sparring partners or for assists. Your work is saved on the figure so you can fight against a friend's amiibo, bring your amiibo to someone else's house with all your hard work tagging along, etc. (Even as someone who's preordered Super Smash Bros., has the GameCube controller thingie on the way, and is interested in amiibo, this holds approaching zero appeal to me. I'm not into having the game play itself for me, and I can't picture being in the heat of battle and thinking "oh, I know how to clinch this; I'll pause the game or whatever, grab a little statue, and tap it to the gamepad". With a fast and frenetic game like this, who'd want to do that?)
Hyrule Warriors - the Link amiibo will unlock the spinner weapon (think a giant top) from Twilight Princess. All other amiibos will unlock random materials, weapons, or rupees.
Mario Kart 8 - amiibos will open up custom racing suits for your Mii. Strictly visual; no gameplay impact.
Currently, Super Smash Bros. is the only game that will read/write to an amiibo. All others just read; they see that it's, say, Yoshi and doesn't need to do any more than that. Because these little NFC chips can only hold a tiny, tiny amount of data (literally just a few kilobytes), you can only save data to them in one game at a time. It's not an issue with Super Smash Bros. being the only thing at present that can write to them. In the future, though...? Let's say that you level up Yoshi a bunch in Smash, and then there's some functionality in Wooly World that also writes to the figure. You'll either (a) miss out on that functionality, (b) buy a second Yoshi figure, or (c) clear the amiibo to be written to from Wooly World, but lose all your Smash Bros. data in the process.
Amiibo has a lot of potential, but as things stand now, it feels like a solution in search of a problem. I'm worried that the lack of any compelling interaction will kill the platform before it ever has a chance to really be utilized.
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I am kinda surprised by how lackluster the amiibo support seems to be... at the very least have one of these unlock a new racer or something in Mario Kart as some kind of DLC (where you pay for the figure). But I am worried that this will be yet another unsupported peripheral, and unlike Skylanders or even Infinity, it doesn't even have a decent game at it's base.
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I am kinda surprised by how lackluster the amiibo support seems to be... at the very least have one of these unlock a new racer or something in Mario Kart as some kind of DLC (where you pay for the figure). But I am worried that this will be yet another unsupported peripheral, and unlike Skylanders or even Infinity, it doesn't even have a decent game at it's base.
It's not a game. It's an add-on for some games. If you wanted a fully supported game you should be looking at Skylanders or Infinity.
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I think that's the problem -- they've announced Wave 3 and there's nothing that screams people need to buy them.
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They haven't even been available to purchase and you are already dismissing them? Give it some time. Nintendo has already announced Wave Three.
It's not a game. It's an add-on for some games. If you wanted a fully supported game you should be looking at Skylanders or Infinity.
It's not a game. It's an add-on for some games. If you wanted a fully supported game you should be looking at Skylanders or Infinity.
I'm not dismissing them outright, in fact I already have wave 1 preordered, I'm just waiting on them revealing something else before I preorder entire waves instead of cherry picking.
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It's pretty clear what they are. If you want a Skylanders experience this is not it. It's an add-on to Smash to allow customized fighters in a unique way. In other games it unlocks bonus content.