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DerNebel said:
ohmylanta1003 said:
DerNebel said:
PigPen said:

The Wii U was made for developers to do that.  When did Sony do something like that?  Lets not be delusional.

What the heck are you talking about? Amiibos are a clear cut copy the Skylanders and Disney Infinity toys, simple as that. Your comment doesn't even make sense, the Wii U was made for developers to do what?


The gamepad has NFC techonology built into it. I don't know if this technology was a part of the gamepad before Skylanders and Infinity came out, but Nintendo has been planning on using this technology for a long time.

It's not like it's rare for smartphones or tablets, which clearly inspired the gamepad, to have NFC technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFC-enabled_mobile_devices

Them having that in there does not mean they had a set plan for it, much less that they planned to get those figures out, those are an obvious product of Skylanders success.


Good counterpoint. Never would have thought of anything like that. You're right. Everyone takes ideas from everyone else and that's just business.



I bet the Wii U would sell more than 15M LTD by the end of 2015. He bet it would sell less. I lost.