| spemanig said: People don't buy amiibo for games. Nintendo said this. Amiibo won't be affected at all when the NX goes digital. |
The people who buy Amiibo's are also typically the same people who buy Nintendo games, though. It's a huge marketing pull to have a shelf of Amiibo right next to 4 shelves of Wii U and 3DS games. For example, I am not going to drive out to Best Buy just to buy an Amiibo but I might pick up that Woolly World Amiibo that I kind of been wanting the next time I am at Best Buy to buy a game that I have pre-ordered. One product helps to the sell the other regardless of the in-game functionality. An all-digital platform is basically a statement to gamers that they should stay at home and not even bother going to the Nintendo-section in electronics stores: I don't believe that is the message that Nintendo wants to be sending right now with Amiibo being a integral part of their business.
