Nintendo's Amiibo platform is shaping up

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Recycle001 said:

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Here's an idea. Tell me what you think. $20 dollars. An a-MII-bo. They could have 3D printers at GameStop that print a customized amiibo with your Mii likeness. We all have a Mii and wouldn't it be cool to have him as an amiibo? Special abilities included and it zaps your Mii into certain games where the Mii is already a selection slot in MK8, smash etc. Bam, where's my million dollars?

 

This surely beats my Mario party board game idea?

Okay, so here goes. Lets say that these A-Mii-bo kiosks end up costing Nintendo around $1000(this would include RnD, printer cost, graphic design, firmware for the printer, plastic, store space, shipping, etc.) and there are 6,614 total Gamestop's world wide. Quick math says that would cost Nintendo roughly $6,614,000 in initial cost.

Somewhere around 100,000 Amiibo have been sold so far in the last 4 months. Custom Amiibo wouldn't be as popular of course because as it stands they wouldn't be integrated in any game. So let's ballpark some reasonable numbers. Lets say after one year that 100,000 custom Amiibo are sold. At 20 bucks a pop(Nintendo's cut would probably be closer to around 10-12 bucks) thats only 2mill, meaning that it would take a minium of a little over three years for Nintendo to recoup their investment. 

Don't get me wrong. I love this idea, but it'll never happen... or really even be a good move by Nintendo.

Amiibos are already integreated into many games. The chip in the amiibo would just activate that character. I doubt they would have to be in every gamestop in the world. Maybe in a quarter of them. It would just be for hype and nice advertisement. Heck, on my house alone we would probably buy 3 and I wouldn't buy any of the current amiibos.