I'm very quickly falling in love with Amiibos. I can't afford to collect all of them, and I don't have the time nor patience to hunt them all down. So I'm happy that they aren't essential to get the most out of a game, but if I happen to have the figure and the game, I get a little extra. Which is lovely.
To be honest, it just doesn't bother me if it's on disk or not either.
You could make a similar argument that multiplayer features require the 'physical DLC' of extra controllers to enjoy. That's, of course, nonsense. But some features in games do need you to buy something extra to get the full value of the game, be it memory cards, extra controllers, or expansion packs. Amiibo are, to me, classed in the same category. Rather than 'physical DLC'.







