Nintendo: Amiibo will play a bigger role in its videogame business

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Soundwave said:

I guess it could work ... but I'm not entirely sold. I've noticed Amiibo sales starting to slow a bit, it's not the "sold out right away!" thing it was before, I've noticed the Animal Crossing amiibo for example aren't moving that quickly at all this holiday. 

The other issue I think they have is they've actually already made Amiibos of most of their important characters. At some point people are going to stop buying the same characters over and over again. I think a lot of people have already grabbed Amiibo of their favorite Nintendo characters, so it becomes harder and harder to convince them to buy again after this I think (do you really need 3 different Mario Amiibos for example?). 

What I predict they will do is make Amiibos compatible with smartphones/tablets. Many of those have NFC readers already built in. Maybe that will get more kids to buy them rather than 30 year old collectors.

If they base the NX on Amiibos, it is going to flop hard. I also have seen many people starting to yawn at amiibos. It was cool as collectibles at first, now it is almost impossible to have all of them.