Would you Call Amiibos a success or failure so far?

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OfficerRaichu15 on 11 December 2014

Nintendo has 200k amiibos by the end of 2014 for france as a guess

700k amiibos sold in US in 2 weeks

thats 900k amiibos in france and US at mininum

you think its a sucess or failure?

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KLXVER on 11 December 2014

A pretty huge success actually...

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 11 December 2014

Certainly a success! Thats a heck of a lot of amiibos sold for just two weeks

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the_dengle on 11 December 2014

Selling an average of one amiibo to each owner of Smash Bros actually sounds excellent to me.

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fory77 on 11 December 2014

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aikohualda on 11 December 2014

success... im curious how much money they earn on every amiibo they sold

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archbrix on 11 December 2014

A resounding success. Nintendo already discontinuing three of them is a failure.

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Samus Aran on 11 December 2014

aikohualda said:
success... im curious how much money they earn on every amiibo they sold

I'm guessing a lot.

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tbone51 on 11 December 2014

Remember this before answering...

~Marth/Villager/Wii Fit Trainer (that would add up if it werent discontinued, maybe not awhole like but definitely a coupe thousand, if nt more.
~12 amiibos in this figure, there are at least 36 not released yet
~ A game hasnt been made that would 100% feat Amiibos aka Disney Infinity

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TheGoldenBoy on 11 December 2014

Success.


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