| spemanig said: There wouldn't be a trade off. Amiibo cards wouldn't cannibalize Amiibo toys because the people buying Abiimo toys want the toy. They'd sell more Amiibo if they did both than if they only sold the toys. 99% of people who buy Amiibo now aren't buying it for only the content. They are either buying it for just the figure or for both. That means there is a large untapped market of people who want the content, and don't want to spend the 100s of dollars it would cost to have all of it, which cheap Amiibo cards would cater to. It would also cater to people who already bought a lot of Amiibo, want the content from a specific Amiibo, but can't afford to buy more. Instead of never buying that Amiibo and losing the sale, they'd buy the figure and retain something. We absolutely are in a position to demand. The consumer is the authority. Of course the content wouldn't be free. I never said their only intrest should be the consumer, but in business, you're meant to reach an equilibrium where the consumer and the company have the best possible outcome, and the current way Amiibo are handled is not that equilibrium. Amiibo can make more while the consumer can pay less. The game being good without the content makes absolutely no difference. The game is better with it, that's all that matters, and it's bullshit that the only way to have that is by paying $12 for a toy. Just because someone has the right to do something doesn't make it okay or good business to do so. Nintendo has every right to fail with the Wii U. Ubisoft has every right to release AssCreed Unity broken at launch. |
I think threads like these are proof enough that some people will buy the amiibo for the content. If Nintendo or Yacht Club thought they would make more money selling the content separately, they wouldn't need coercing.
You have no authority. If they are making money in the free market then your "demands" fall on deaf ears. Case in point: you demanding this, right now, and them not yielding to your demands, nor making any note of them, nor in all likelihood hearing them at all.
Ubisoft will make billions of dollars releasing their broken game so I'm not sure what your point is. In fact I think you've supported my point.
The game is also better with the Battletoads boss level, and it's absolute bullshit that the only way to have that is by paying $400 for an Xbox One, right? The content is tied to the amiibo.
