Nintendo Details its Holiday Line-up

[Edwardooo]

flagstaad said:

Edwardooo said:

W-what ?

Do you know that each games cost several millions dollars in development, and figurines cost at least a hundred time less for a lot of them ? They are made in chinese industries and they most probably cost less than 3 dollars each for Nintendo...Nintendo don't use the money from game development for amiibo, you don't have to worry about it.

All the signs are there, they are making more money of the amiibos than from the games, so it is a better bussiness proposition to create more amiibos than to create more games, if they have to spend even less, better for them, right? Wii U disk manufacture is also cheap as hell, but they refuse to produce them for Fatal Frame in USA? and yet they are producing and distributing a TON of amiibos which use more space... Maybe they are not using the production money but it looks like the distribution one has already change course.

No, it's not a better business ! Amiibo are a short term solution, just look at Skylanders, it was a huge success 3 years ago and now, each year less skylanders are sold, and by the next two to three years they will probably be gone forever. The same will occur to Disney Infinity and of course Amiibo.

On the other side, vidoe games aren't a short term solution, you can live on it forever. There's no need to worry about amiibo taking more money, time and interest than video games, it will never be the case. The same applies to Activision and Disney.