Yacht Club is manufacturing and distributing the Shovel Knight amiibo

[DerNebel]

the_dengle said:

DerNebel said:

"Now, this confirms that Nintendo has nothing to do with the content locked in the Shovel Knight amiibo"

Keep telling yourself that, Nintendo knew exactly what kind of content the Amiibo was going to lock out. It's completely naive to think that there wouldn't be an approval process for the content, Nintendo is putting their name on this after all (when people see Amiibo, they think made by Nintendo).

What are you on about? Nintendo should start policing indies? That's what made them so unpopular with indies last generation. If Yacht Club wanted to make a non-amiibo NFC figure that unlocked exclusive content they could do it all by themselves, and that's actually what they did. Nintendo just gave them permission to call it an amiibo. I don't see a problem with that, the figure itself looks high quality, in fact it looks a lot better than many of the Smash Bros amiibo.

And you think Nintendo just gives out the permission to call something an Amiibo without looking at what the figurine does or how it looks like? To give an extreme example, lets say a dev makes an NFC figure that unlocks a sex minigame in a certain title, would Nintendo in that case let that dev use the Amiibo name?

My problem here is that the OP is trying to portray Nintendo as an innocent bystander to the decision about what content is locked behind the Amiibo. I'm not saying that Nintendo should necessarily start policing indies, but I'd like it if we'd call a spade a spade here, to say that this (Nintendo exclusive) content that is linked to a figurine that carries a Nintendo licensed product name has been created entirely without Nintendo having a word in the matter, is simply wrong.