Don't Bet Against Nintendo, Amiibo Could Be a Big Hit, GameStop Says

[Mythmaker1]

Viper1 said:

Mythmaker1 said:
It won't.

Amiibo might pan out as a profitable concept, but a "hit?" I don't see that happening.

Did you see Skylanders or Disney Infinity becoming a hit before release?

Now imagine a similar concept only vastly more expansive, built into the console and covering some of the biggest video game IPs in the world.

Skylanders I didn't hear about until after the fact. Disney Infinity I thought was a tossup, given the competition from Skylanders.

While you do have a point that it's more sophisticated, remember that this is not a multiplatform release (like Skylanders and Infinity), that it is not actually built into both systems it's compatible with (3DS, by far the larger install base, requires an adapter), that it's not the first iteration of this concept to market (Beaten by Skylanders), or the one with the biggest star-power (Disney, by comparison, has much greater brand recognition).