| Paperboy_J said: People need to vote with their wallets and not support these practices. I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan, but even I can't defend everything they do. I'm not down with this amiibo stuff. The only acceptable way I can see amiibo being used is if they gave you extra lives in a game, extra ammo, more Pikmin, stuff like that. But to lock an entire mode behind an amiibo purchase is not cool, imo. Also, do we know for sure that this mode is locked on the cartridge and not the amiibo itself? |
The Amiibo can only hold a small amount of data, I would be very surprised if one could have a single megabyte of storage.
So yeah 100% sure it is either on the card or needs to be downloaded seperately.
Nintendo needs to try and walk a fine line, where you want the Amiibo to do stuff, but it cannot be too cool.
Surely that takes a lot of effort to ensure that all consumers are satisfied.
Clearly they have slipped off that line this time (and perhaps with Wolf Link).
I will be buying the game, but I don't want plastic statues taking up space, so I will not be getting the Amiibo.
Honestly I couldn't care less about the added mode, but that is me.
Even if the mode was in the game for free I quite likely would not play it, that is just not who I am.
That being said it is perfectly reasonable that people feel that they are being taken advantage of, 'cus they are.
Being taken advantage of is pretty much the the natural state of being for a consumer in this industry.
Personally if I cared about Amiibo, I would probably find even the giving of items to be a game design travesty.
