oniyide on 14 September 2014
| MegaManX said: These Amiibos are not going to save Nintendo. They are frivolous at best, add less than Skylanders do, not nearly as versatile in terms of what games and consoles they can be used on, and are WAY overpriced for what they are. $13 for one of these! That is insane and frankly insulting when Skylanders are $10 and are the same technology, even they are overpriced but older figures can be bought for nothing, in fact... I was big into Skylanders, bought a ton and had a bunch of duplicates. I can't even get rid of these now, I get on average about 1.50 each if I sell them in a bulk of 10 or 20. I think the toy-game gimmick has run it's course, and Disney Infinity threw their hat into things and it's to expensive I feel for casual gamers to bother when they have cheaper alternatives on mobile. What makes people think they are going to sell games and consoles when it's just a dozen cheap figures that are a glorified memory card? If you weren't interested in the Wii U after all the games announced or released so far I doubt you are going to be interested in the figures they are based on. Plus Amazon has them with a release date of December 31st, could be a placeholder but if not than they are missing their best chance to move these. |
ive found this odd too. Why did Ninty wait so long to do their own figure thing? Are they really banking on their own brand being that popular to make up the difference? I hope not that cause that would tell me that they havent learned much.
