Produced too many too greedily and with barely any functionality.
Weirdly the inverse was also true. That Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival game is the only one I remember being specifically Amiibo centric but the game itself was the most barebones version of Mario Party you could imagine. You’d play it once and have done everything
Neat concept, awful execution. >Smash Bros. spearheaded the concept, pretty cool! >Other games can use them, neat! >Super Mario Maker lets you use all of them and then some, awesome! >And then...that's it.
Then you had games like which required the damn things but if you didn't have the money, it was obsolete. I brought Pac-Man, and then Ganondorf and at that point I realized I was wasting my money. This was around 2015.
You also can't use certain amiibo, I think the Pokemon amiibo could only be used for Smash and Mario Maker, any other game and they wouldn't register.
yeah i bought that amiibo festival game too. what a pile of shit. i wouldn't even call it "barebones mario party" it was basically just chutes and ladders where you had to constantly tap amiibos to the fricking gamepad which got REALLY old really fast
the devs outright said in interviews they just wanted animal crossing amiibo because they thought they'd be cute and then Lottie nearly killed the entire brand, lmao
I really thought there was going to be more to Amiibos. I thought the way Yoshi's Woolly World and Super Mario Maker were perfect examples of how Amiibo support should be done.
No they weren't, they were around 12 burgerbucks. Starting with BotW they became 15 unless the figure is slightly larger than normal than the price shoots up (like the SS Zelda one's debut price was 25 just because of the bird).
Smash and Mario Maker were the only ones that had the functionality be in that sweet spot. In all other games either the rewards were one of the following >too minimal to justify the purchase >big enough that you were practically required to buy one as a form of physical DLC which would turn off even the most sane NPC
>still no Pyra and Mythra release date >still no word on Sora (but don't really care about him)
It doesn't help that they themselves kill enthusiasm by stretching releases out so far. Ridiculous that Ultimate is over 4 years old and they still haven't released every amiibo for it yet.
Have you been playing on the OG client? I heard Live is taking out a bunch of shit including trading so you want to play as much as you can and get what you want before you migrate your profile.
What the absolute frick are the use of Amiibos? MHR has one that's like $15 or $30 and all it gives you is a fricking skin. Is it just a Pop Figure but Nintendo? At least with Skylanders, it was a whole character.
Still shitty for MHR but after the skin, you can get free shit like potions, traps and tickets from scanning MR amiibo everyday. Does cut down on grind a little bit.
i remember when Breath of the Wild made all Zelda amiibos do stuff they started flying off shelves, even shitters like Ganondorf. but mostly they don't do shit.
>morons fell for the funko crap littering the stores
Their only purpose is to spot people with poor taste making bad decisions as a sort of redflag now.
I used to see these things fricking EVERYWHERE.
Walmart had a whole aisle dedicated to them.
Now I'm lucky if Walmart carries fricking ONE.
Did Nintendo just stop making them or something?
The overloading of Animal Crossing amiibos that didn't sell had retailers balk at stocking large amounts afterward and Nintendo responded by simply not making as many new ones as they were before then.
I don't know why they thought making a figure of every single villager will have them all sell gangbusters.
>that didn't sell had retailers balk at stocking large amounts afterward >don't know why they thought making a figure of every single villager
I got 3 Lotte amiibo's. I think it was Bestbuy exclusive and they got sooo damn many. I got my first one cause I thought it was a good idea to buy it on clearance for $2CAD. Then Bestbuy still had many many left, eventually they started giving them away with purchases of other things. They physically forced 2 of them onto me even though I didn't want them
The problem with the Animal Crossing Amiibos was that they only did actual figures for the persistent shop npcs that are in every game, the vast majority of which nobody gives a single frick about.
The actual villagers were relegated to Amiibo cards, and those sold like fricking mad because they're what people actually wanted, they wanted to play the Ankha lottery. I don't know if it was the same for anyone else but back during the Welcome Amiibo expansion I honest to god could not find a single Amiibo card pack at retail because they were just constantly getting cleaned out, meanwhile there was just an entire wall of Kicks amiibos that look like they haven't been touched for a thousand years.
I remember you couldn't even get K.K. Slider in the US without buying a 3 pack with the two sheep. Good thing Walmart was clearing them out for 4 bucks later so I was finally able to get him.
>the Peach one I bought at the 3DS Smash launch slowly had her hair change from blonde to orange over the years >Link has some paint degradation as well >only two I have that have done that so far that I've noticed and both were bought day 1
On one hand, Nintendo would never commit to having substantial amiibo content so these mcdonald statues that just unlock an outfit are a waste of time
On the other hand, it's fricking annoying having content locked behind a toy when it's actually something useful or unique
On a third hand, stocking issues and exclusivity deals out the ass made these things obnoxious to collect even if you wanted to, so the sooner these shits are just forgotten the better.
Like everything else nintendo does, they make low-medium effort products for children that get eaten up because they're children and then the grown ass manchildren are left wondering why nintendo abandoned their money making kids toy
The amiibo craze was fricking batshit insane and put people who just wanted cheap and decent enough looking figurines of their favorite characters (some of which barely ever got official merch like Ness, Shulk, Captain Falcon) through a living hell. >scalpers buying them all up instantly >entire shelves being cleared out in hours >websites selling out between page reloads >exclusivity deals that only fricked people trying to buy them over (america only, of course) >so many people trying to buy the gamestop exclusive ness at once wound up breaking gamestop, not just the website, but the physical stores had their systems fricked up >a truck in the UK containing splatoon amiibos got stolen and GAME had to cancel preorders >the fact i was able to preorder dedede and import ness from the UK was pure luck
Then they massively overproduced Animal Crossing amiibos for that shitty Wii U game and killed the craze. It was nice being able to just casually hear about K Rool getting an amiibo and preordering it off Amazon without any urgency or issues.
I hate scalper homosexuals so much it's unreal
>exclusivity deals that only fricked people trying to buy them over (america only, of course)
I remember the Rosalina smash amiibo had absolutely fricked distribution in Canada because it was a Target exclusive set to release after Target planned to shut down all their stores in Canada (RIP in Piss)
I don't remember what ended up happening, I think they just ended up going to Walmarts?
When they first announced I freaked out since I thought the Ness amiibo would never arrive to my third world country.
I ended up asking my aunt who lives in the US to buy it for me.
>bought every single amiibo until the zelda 30th anniversary collection came out >opened every single box >have them scattered all over the apartment >GF left me
i only collected them because it was a fun thing we did together. now i have a bunch of soulless funko-tier clutter around my house. they're all open so i don't think they have much resale value, even the rarest one will only fetch me like 50 bucks without a box. its like thousands of dollars worth of junk. i took all the ones she bought me as presents outside and used them for target practice. it was cathartic
Guys unrelated question, its new game time for my Switch and my local store has used copies of Shin Megami Tensei V and Fire Emblem 3 Houses, which one should I buy?
Some of my fav games are Nier Automata, Dragon Quest XI, Hades and Death Stranding for reference.
I liked the idea of a collectible nintendo card thing thats linked with a video game, but they only did it for animal crossing which I really dont care much
Even if they had no nfc functionality and was just cardboard with a qr code would be nice, since I could collect them and keeping them would be much easier rather than actual small toys that required shelf space.
post games+amiibo where the lack of compatibility was baffling >shulk in smash >shulk amiibo >xenoblade 3ds port >new xenoblade coming out on wii u, same console as smash
>T-THE EVIL SCALPERS
you just have to do a little research and make some phone calls. i get shit day one from retail like a normal customer all the time. i bought all of my amiibos by walking into a store and asking for one (ONE UNO ICHI 1) and walking out with it. people who show up 3 days after something is released and then get mad at scalpers deserve it
you are very much a Black person who doesn't know how to live within a collective environment, I can tell all your life from that single statement and will tell you that you will never find true happiness or fulfillment in your life
Recently bought Able and Resetti from Amazon since they were kind of cheap as far as amiibo prices go these days. Wish I had gotten some more when they were cheap.
For whatever reason the non villager animal crossing amiibo that were tied into amiibo festival didn't sell and got heavily discounted. The best time to pick up a bunch (at least in the US) was when Toys R Us went bankrupt and they were slashing prices by at least 50%.
Nintendo started putting shitty scan limits in the titles for bonuses so like in Fire Emblem Engage you could only scan 5 different amiibos within a 24 hour period, compared to the infinite amount you could scan in BotW.
They had a really shitty and bad plans with how many units where made per character and in general and they also had no real interactions in the games like they advertised outside smash so selling a shitty gimmick was a bad move
Produced too many too greedily and with barely any functionality.
Weirdly the inverse was also true. That Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival game is the only one I remember being specifically Amiibo centric but the game itself was the most barebones version of Mario Party you could imagine. You’d play it once and have done everything
Neat concept, awful execution.
>Smash Bros. spearheaded the concept, pretty cool!
>Other games can use them, neat!
>Super Mario Maker lets you use all of them and then some, awesome!
>And then...that's it.
Then you had games like which required the damn things but if you didn't have the money, it was obsolete. I brought Pac-Man, and then Ganondorf and at that point I realized I was wasting my money. This was around 2015.
You also can't use certain amiibo, I think the Pokemon amiibo could only be used for Smash and Mario Maker, any other game and they wouldn't register.
Blame that on Game Freak being anal more than Nintendo.
yeah i bought that amiibo festival game too. what a pile of shit. i wouldn't even call it "barebones mario party" it was basically just chutes and ladders where you had to constantly tap amiibos to the fricking gamepad which got REALLY old really fast
the devs outright said in interviews they just wanted animal crossing amiibo because they thought they'd be cute and then Lottie nearly killed the entire brand, lmao
Wrong. Scalpers fricked everything up buying up kids figures and extorting prices on ebay and local shops.
I really thought there was going to be more to Amiibos. I thought the way Yoshi's Woolly World and Super Mario Maker were perfect examples of how Amiibo support should be done.
>one amiibo is $15
no thank you
I bought a bunch when they were $8. Then the price went up, because, umm, dollar store toys are hard to make?
they were always $15 you bought the discounted ones they couldn't sell
At launch the MSRP was $8
No they weren't, they were around 12 burgerbucks. Starting with BotW they became 15 unless the figure is slightly larger than normal than the price shoots up (like the SS Zelda one's debut price was 25 just because of the bird).
Smash and Mario Maker were the only ones that had the functionality be in that sweet spot. In all other games either the rewards were one of the following
>too minimal to justify the purchase
>big enough that you were practically required to buy one as a form of physical DLC which would turn off even the most sane NPC
Most people just collect them like funko pops instead of actually using them.
you could emulate the NFC tag if you had a working NFC card and a Samsung phone
> Samsung phone
Any android phone with NFC will do; I don't think you even need a card.
>still no Pyra and Mythra release date
>still no word on Sora (but don't really care about him)
It doesn't help that they themselves kill enthusiasm by stretching releases out so far. Ridiculous that Ultimate is over 4 years old and they still haven't released every amiibo for it yet.
I don't know, but I am surprised as shit that there is no Pokemon tcg play client for the Switch.
i'd play the shit out of it wtf
Well you can on your phone/tablet/computer.
Have you been playing on the OG client? I heard Live is taking out a bunch of shit including trading so you want to play as much as you can and get what you want before you migrate your profile.
This. I still have yet to try Live though.
>physical DRM of DLC
It's shocking that nintendo homosexuals just fricking rolled over on this and accepted it with a smile
What the absolute frick are the use of Amiibos? MHR has one that's like $15 or $30 and all it gives you is a fricking skin. Is it just a Pop Figure but Nintendo? At least with Skylanders, it was a whole character.
Still shitty for MHR but after the skin, you can get free shit like potions, traps and tickets from scanning MR amiibo everyday. Does cut down on grind a little bit.
I thought Amiibo would bring more crossover content to games.
Normies and their "fads" confuse me.
>not calling them amiigos
>a mii on the go
>and a friend
Who the frick thought naming them after single cell parasites was a good idea?
i remember when Breath of the Wild made all Zelda amiibos do stuff they started flying off shelves, even shitters like Ganondorf. but mostly they don't do shit.
Speculation. I enjoy seeing those figures sitting for years not with that moronic price tag on even if it's one I really wanted.
Manchilds moved to collect funkos
>morons fell for the funko crap littering the stores
Their only purpose is to spot people with poor taste making bad decisions as a sort of redflag now.
I used to see these things fricking EVERYWHERE.
Walmart had a whole aisle dedicated to them.
Now I'm lucky if Walmart carries fricking ONE.
Did Nintendo just stop making them or something?
The overloading of Animal Crossing amiibos that didn't sell had retailers balk at stocking large amounts afterward and Nintendo responded by simply not making as many new ones as they were before then.
I don't know why they thought making a figure of every single villager will have them all sell gangbusters.
>that didn't sell had retailers balk at stocking large amounts afterward
>don't know why they thought making a figure of every single villager
I got 3 Lotte amiibo's. I think it was Bestbuy exclusive and they got sooo damn many. I got my first one cause I thought it was a good idea to buy it on clearance for $2CAD. Then Bestbuy still had many many left, eventually they started giving them away with purchases of other things. They physically forced 2 of them onto me even though I didn't want them
I remember seeing a picture here awhile back where a store had literally rows of pegs of nothing but Lotte.
The problem with the Animal Crossing Amiibos was that they only did actual figures for the persistent shop npcs that are in every game, the vast majority of which nobody gives a single frick about.
The actual villagers were relegated to Amiibo cards, and those sold like fricking mad because they're what people actually wanted, they wanted to play the Ankha lottery. I don't know if it was the same for anyone else but back during the Welcome Amiibo expansion I honest to god could not find a single Amiibo card pack at retail because they were just constantly getting cleaned out, meanwhile there was just an entire wall of Kicks amiibos that look like they haven't been touched for a thousand years.
I remember you couldn't even get K.K. Slider in the US without buying a 3 pack with the two sheep. Good thing Walmart was clearing them out for 4 bucks later so I was finally able to get him.
>the Peach one I bought at the 3DS Smash launch slowly had her hair change from blonde to orange over the years
>Link has some paint degradation as well
>only two I have that have done that so far that I've noticed and both were bought day 1
On one hand, Nintendo would never commit to having substantial amiibo content so these mcdonald statues that just unlock an outfit are a waste of time
On the other hand, it's fricking annoying having content locked behind a toy when it's actually something useful or unique
On a third hand, stocking issues and exclusivity deals out the ass made these things obnoxious to collect even if you wanted to, so the sooner these shits are just forgotten the better.
Like everything else nintendo does, they make low-medium effort products for children that get eaten up because they're children and then the grown ass manchildren are left wondering why nintendo abandoned their money making kids toy
physical dlc, mcdonalds happy meal toy quality
The amiibo craze was fricking batshit insane and put people who just wanted cheap and decent enough looking figurines of their favorite characters (some of which barely ever got official merch like Ness, Shulk, Captain Falcon) through a living hell.
>scalpers buying them all up instantly
>entire shelves being cleared out in hours
>websites selling out between page reloads
>exclusivity deals that only fricked people trying to buy them over (america only, of course)
>so many people trying to buy the gamestop exclusive ness at once wound up breaking gamestop, not just the website, but the physical stores had their systems fricked up
>a truck in the UK containing splatoon amiibos got stolen and GAME had to cancel preorders
>the fact i was able to preorder dedede and import ness from the UK was pure luck
Then they massively overproduced Animal Crossing amiibos for that shitty Wii U game and killed the craze. It was nice being able to just casually hear about K Rool getting an amiibo and preordering it off Amazon without any urgency or issues.
I hate scalper homosexuals so much it's unreal
>exclusivity deals that only fricked people trying to buy them over (america only, of course)
I remember the Rosalina smash amiibo had absolutely fricked distribution in Canada because it was a Target exclusive set to release after Target planned to shut down all their stores in Canada (RIP in Piss)
I don't remember what ended up happening, I think they just ended up going to Walmarts?
When they first announced I freaked out since I thought the Ness amiibo would never arrive to my third world country.
I ended up asking my aunt who lives in the US to buy it for me.
aw shit, Fido Dido. Thought he was dead.
Same here. They briefly revived him here in Guatemala for like a whole year in 2019 or so, I'm missing two designs on the cans.
>Fido Dildo
Best boy.
>tfw never got rosalina amiibo because some incel brought them to destroy them because???
>bought every single amiibo until the zelda 30th anniversary collection came out
>opened every single box
>have them scattered all over the apartment
>GF left me
i only collected them because it was a fun thing we did together. now i have a bunch of soulless funko-tier clutter around my house. they're all open so i don't think they have much resale value, even the rarest one will only fetch me like 50 bucks without a box. its like thousands of dollars worth of junk. i took all the ones she bought me as presents outside and used them for target practice. it was cathartic
I have a few, only for characters I like.
Watched my niece open an amibo on her birthday, her excitement was soul crushing
Guys unrelated question, its new game time for my Switch and my local store has used copies of Shin Megami Tensei V and Fire Emblem 3 Houses, which one should I buy?
Some of my fav games are Nier Automata, Dragon Quest XI, Hades and Death Stranding for reference.
SMTV is so much fricking fun, so probably that
Smt V was boring as shit, it's like a shitty pokemon game but with better aesthetics.
3 houses is a sucky FE game, stick with SMT (even though 5 is kinda poopy, better than 3 shits)
I liked the idea of a collectible nintendo card thing thats linked with a video game, but they only did it for animal crossing which I really dont care much
Even if they had no nfc functionality and was just cardboard with a qr code would be nice, since I could collect them and keeping them would be much easier rather than actual small toys that required shelf space.
post games+amiibo where the lack of compatibility was baffling
>shulk in smash
>shulk amiibo
>xenoblade 3ds port
>new xenoblade coming out on wii u, same console as smash
amiibo does nothing in xenoblade x
>amiibo
Soulless
>nendoroid
Sovl
arent these things like 60-80 bucks?
if you're lucky
Nintendo merchandise has existed since forever but IMO the advent of the collectors age of shit like Figmas has ruined them irreversably.
>waste a ton of resources on a feature nobody but themselves use
Classic nintendo move
>lock content behind mcdonalds toys
>scalpers buy up all the mcdonalds toys and drive up the prices by 500%
thats what happened
>T-THE EVIL SCALPERS
you just have to do a little research and make some phone calls. i get shit day one from retail like a normal customer all the time. i bought all of my amiibos by walking into a store and asking for one (ONE UNO ICHI 1) and walking out with it. people who show up 3 days after something is released and then get mad at scalpers deserve it
>i bought all of my amiibos by walking into a store and asking for one
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i don't get it. is that you?
you are very much a Black person who doesn't know how to live within a collective environment, I can tell all your life from that single statement and will tell you that you will never find true happiness or fulfillment in your life
Recently bought Able and Resetti from Amazon since they were kind of cheap as far as amiibo prices go these days. Wish I had gotten some more when they were cheap.
For whatever reason the non villager animal crossing amiibo that were tied into amiibo festival didn't sell and got heavily discounted. The best time to pick up a bunch (at least in the US) was when Toys R Us went bankrupt and they were slashing prices by at least 50%.
I pirate amiibos. It's funny just to think about.
Nintendo started putting shitty scan limits in the titles for bonuses so like in Fire Emblem Engage you could only scan 5 different amiibos within a 24 hour period, compared to the infinite amount you could scan in BotW.
They had a really shitty and bad plans with how many units where made per character and in general and they also had no real interactions in the games like they advertised outside smash so selling a shitty gimmick was a bad move