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gergroy on 11 August 2014
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Teeqoz said:
gergroy said:
DerNebel said:

This.

Seriously the Skylanderd figures are successful because they have a specific game to go along with them, a game that is specifically aimed to be used with the figures.

As far as I know Amiibo doesn't have that, the only use that I know about for now is that in SSB, which I quite frankly find pretty pointless, you can't even play the Amiibo characters in the game.

I have doubts about Amiibos success.

not only are they not based around one game, but supposedly they will not have full functionality if you aren't using the correct amiibo on the game.  For example, if you use a smash mario on mario kart 8, it will work, but it won't have all the functions that the mario kart 8 amiibo will have....


Source? If true then it makes me want to facepalm so hard that I would hit my forehead into the back of mu skull.


When you use the Smash Bros. Mario amiibo in Smash Bros., it's able to do all of the different things designed for that game. When you take that amiibo and you use it in different games, it's not the Smash Bros. Mario, it's just a Mario. It's a more simple use for [amiibo functionality] but it's able to do those two things.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06/12/e3-2014-nintendo-on-amiibo-smash-bros-and-custom-figurines

it is vague, like all amiibo info, but that is what I (and apparently the ign wiki) have infered from the interview.  So there will be some games that will have specific amiibo lines that have special functionality for those games.  However, if you don't have that specific games amiibo line then you will only have the basic character functionality.