Nintendo is treating Amiibo as On Disc DLC

[Cloudman]

twintail said:

Cloudman said:
It's not on disc dlc. You're not downloading anything. It's unlocking it. So guess a more fitting name would be locked content, and amiibos are the keys, haha...

Yeah, this is pretty terrible this time. Ah well, I buy the amiibo for the figurines anyways.

Ppl see Amiibo as just a physical form of the same thing.

Either way you need a key, you pay for it, and can then access the content.

Well, at least on the bright side, among a group of people, if one of them has an amiibo you can use, you can just borrow it and never need to buy one. Worked for me a few times, haha.