Nintendo Japan's website for Amiibo figures reveals a new bit of information about the figures. They'll only be able to store data from a single compatible game at a time.

The publisher has been touting Amiibos as having cross-game functionality, but that appears to be more limited than originally suspected. It isn't clear just yet how much of an impact this will have on their usefulness, though.

Right now, we only know that the toys store data from Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Implementation in Mario Kart 8 and Hyrule Warriors seems to simply detect the presence of the figure rather than require them to save data.

In Mario Kart 8, players can unlock a Mii racing suit that apes the look of the character placed on the NFC zone of the gamepad. In Hyrule Warriors, connecting a figure unlocks weapons and items.

Amiibo figures will also be used for Yoshi's Wooly World, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Mario Party 10, and Kirby and the Rainbow Curse. How exactly the toys will be used in those games isn't yet known, and it is possible that Super Smash Bros. will be the only game in the bunch that stores data.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/11/12/amiibo-figures-can-only-store-data-from-one-game-at-a-time.aspx

Pretty lame.


So its basically low quality nfc statues for twice the price of the competition. That can store data from 1 game only and have pee and gelatine holding the characters on the coin platforms.


Gets better and better.

See.  Exactly as I said. Amiibo's are used to unlock disc locked content within the games.

*edit*

"In Mario Kart 8, players can unlock a Mii racing suit that apes the look of the character placed on the NFC zone of the gamepad. In Hyrule Warriors, connecting a figure unlocks weapons and items."

With every new piece of information on Amiibo my excitement level for them (which admittedly didn't start terribly high) drops.

Yeah, that seems to be the case. The figures might as well become DLC packs sooner or later!

Its more like DLC content that gets added to the game later.

That's a really big flaw.

lame

We knew this since E3. All it means is that they will only be used as 'memory cards' for Smash, while for other games they are keys to unlock content.

We talked about this yesterday: gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=193183