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KingdomHeartsFan on 29 December 2014
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hsrob said:
KingdomHeartsFan said:

Don't really understand the appeal of amiibo from a video game perspective, they only have a worthwhile use in SSB, in other games they unlock items that gamers are used to getting for free as pre-order bonuses such as costumes and weapons.  Not to mention Nintendo restricted them so they can only save data from one game, so if another game gets a worthwhile use like SSB youll have to delete your SSB saved data.

That's how NFC generally work, it's not really fair to call it a Nintendo restriction.

I think what we will see with Amiibo is that each one has a primary function in one game (that requires data saving) and some smaller ancillary effects in other games ala the costumes in MK8. This series of Amiibo was labelled as the Smash Bros series. If we really want to see some interesting sales figures, queue Pokemon Amiibo. They will, to use the cliched phrase in a very appropriate way, print money.

I'll be willing to bet Nintendo will come up with a way to back up your Amiibo data before too long though. They have already alluded to the fact that there will be cheaper NFC tokens in the future which may very well be a way to, for example, back up your Smash Bros Captain Falcon data to make way for your F-Zero Captain Falcon data. Obviously being able to save it straight to the OS as well would be ideal.

Never even looked into any NFC before amiibo so I didn't know they were all like that.  I just expected better, after the first use they revealed in SSB, I expected equally useful features in all games that utalized amiibos.