tbone51 said:
Also pokemon OR/AS comes out holiday and those are remakes. Your idea could fit later on pokemon XY (third installment) or next gen pokemon. (also 3ds accessory for amiibo wont be out this year) |
I think it would be much easier to market, advertise, and ultimately, to sell as a cohesive concept. Have something like Pokemon Colosseum as the hub, a real game around which figurine collecting would center.
The Pokemon brand is very strong and would support the concept immediately. As it is, now they have to sell this "Amiibo" idea, even if "Nintendo" is the overall brand being displayed. The negative of Amiibo is that they've got to inform people what it is first, where with Pokemon they could simply say, "hey, Pokemon NFC game!" The positive, perhaps, is that they might be able to get younger kids interested in older IP, though we'll see if that happens.
