Nintendo, DLC, and Amiibo

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I feel like Nintendo is trying every type of DLC there is to see which one fits best... Like you have the "Expansion Pack" method with Super Luigi U, you have the "Value" Method with MK8, you have the "Micro-Transaction" method with Rusty's Baseball, you have the "Free-2-Play" method with Submarine Wars, "Season Pass" method with Mario Golf (I believe) and the list goes on. And I think once they find out which one works best for them and the consumer, they will hopefully stick to that one and leave the rest behind

With that being said, I really don't think Amiibo's are On-Disc DLC cause with On-Disc DLC, the content is already made and is locked within the disc which is certainly not the case for Amiibos. Many of the Amiibo features that are coming out are coming out as updates to the game later rather than DLC being premade and locked away and the content you are getting isn't really a big deal so its no where close to being as bad.

On top of that, I think the way that Nintendo is handling the Amiibo is odd but great. They are making sure that the content the amiibo's provide aren't essential to the game so when a person buys a game, they don't feel cheated but at the sametime, since Amiibo's work with so many games, the value in them is in quantity.

Cause the thing is, if Nintendo made Amiibos have things that are considered "must have" content, people would yell anti-consumer but if Nintendo has them working on very little games with very little content, then they wouldn't be worth it so instead, Nintendo has very little content but it works on so many games that eventually, Amiibos will be worth it so people are buying them for a) Collection and b) Future Potential. And sure, there are some people that still yell "anti-consumer" but thats mostly cause that they either don't understand it or they just want to be negative against Nintendo but thankfully, they are the minority