| Tachikoma said: The issue is cheaping out and going with low capacty, poor storage nfc hardware results in: no ability to stop nfc replication, no encryption on the actual nfc dataso it can be modified, so someone could easilly release an apk/iso app containing all amiibos, including amiibos not currently released, which negtes the need to buy any further figures, but most importanty, a hardware limitation, meaning all currently released characters physically cannot store more than one games data, not now, not in the future. The prediction wasnt meant to be impressive, it was meant to point out how stupid the design choice was. It is a matter of FOB price only, Nintendo wouldnt have had to spend a penny on security because NFC tecnologies support various modes by default, providing the NFC tag used has said features, which the amiibos do not. The price difference to Nintendo would litterally have been less than $0.06 per unit. |
Clearly it wasn't worth the 6 cents to them. As someone else said, the competition has done no better. Difference is now we're paying attention because it's Nintendo, I guess. Quite frankly, I still don't see how this matters. Not trying to be a mindless Nintendo defender here, I just really fail to grasp how this changes anything. What's the point of Amiibo without the physical figure? As for the hardware limitation, wouldn't it be just as stupid to allow more than one game's data on there? From a business perspective, I mean. Less incentive to buy more figures.
