Nintendo looking into potential amiibo compatibility for third-party companies

[KLXVER]

Soundwave said:

KLXVER said:
I really hope there will be a Mega Man and Pac-Man Amiibo. That would be sweetness

But that's not "character whoring"? I'm confused. 

Mega Man and Pac-Man isnt Nintendo and havent been whored out at all in the last years.