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Forums - Gaming - Amiibos hold 36% market share of all NFC figures at Best Buy

vivster on 29 December 2014

In what time frame? The last hour?



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Clyde32 on 29 December 2014
DarkRPGamer007 said:
Wait just this holiday or the entire year? If just this holiday it's still impressive since they just released but if you're comparing the Amiibos, which just launched 11-21-14 to these other characters who have been out the entire year, then that's really impressive. Of course, if you're comparing it to their entire time selling, then this percentage is ridiculous!

Share of the Top 50 selling Interactive Gaming Figures at BestBuy.com (12/15/14)


That's all we have on the time, just don't have the timeframe.



Ezquimacore on 29 December 2014
DerNebel said:
Initial rush, which is also fueled by the looming fear of "If I don't get this thing now, I might not be able to get it ever".

Still good for Nintendo though.


gotta love people like you trying to downgrade every achievement of Nintendo.



DerNebel on 29 December 2014
Ezquimacore said:
DerNebel said:
Initial rush, which is also fueled by the looming fear of "If I don't get this thing now, I might not be able to get it ever".

Still good for Nintendo though.


gotta love people like you trying to downgrade every achievement of Nintendo.

Tell me I'm wrong.



Fusioncode on 29 December 2014

This was actually confirmed fake on Gaf. It's taking data from the online Best Sellers list on Best Buy. And none of their numbers are the slightest bit reliable. The methodology they used made very little sense.



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Fusioncode on 29 December 2014

Here's the original article. 

This is the methodology they used:

"The strength of amiibo sales surprised CONSULGAMER, especially given the competition of established players Skylanders and Disney INFINITY in a heated holiday market.  Yet amiibo sales currently shine.  A review of Best Buy’s online sales show Disney INFINITY and amiibo in a dead-heat for the top 20 game-to-toys on the market – each having ten toys in the list.  By expanding to Best Buy’s top 50 selling products on their site, the two remain tied: amiibo and Disney INFINITY each have 18 products in the top 50, with Skylanders trailing with 14 products."

I don't think anyone should use this as legitimate sales information. 



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Spade on 29 December 2014
KingdomHeartsFan said:

Don't really understand the appeal of amiibo from a video game perspective, they only have a worthwhile use in SSB, in other games they unlock items that gamers are used to getting for free as pre-order bonuses such as costumes and weapons.  Not to mention Nintendo restricted them so they can only save data from one game, so if another game gets a worthwhile use like SSB youll have to delete your SSB saved data.

They seem like a clever implementation of DLC IMO...

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hsrob on 29 December 2014
KingdomHeartsFan said:

Don't really understand the appeal of amiibo from a video game perspective, they only have a worthwhile use in SSB, in other games they unlock items that gamers are used to getting for free as pre-order bonuses such as costumes and weapons.  Not to mention Nintendo restricted them so they can only save data from one game, so if another game gets a worthwhile use like SSB youll have to delete your SSB saved data.

That's how NFC generally work, it's not really fair to call it a Nintendo restriction.

I think what we will see with Amiibo is that each one has a primary function in one game (that requires data saving) and some smaller ancillary effects in other games ala the costumes in MK8. This series of Amiibo was labelled as the Smash Bros series. If we really want to see some interesting sales figures, queue Pokemon Amiibo. They will, to use the cliched phrase in a very appropriate way, print money.

I'll be willing to bet Nintendo will come up with a way to back up your Amiibo data before too long though. They have already alluded to the fact that there will be cheaper NFC tokens in the future which may very well be a way to, for example, back up your Smash Bros Captain Falcon data to make way for your F-Zero Captain Falcon data. Obviously being able to save it straight to the OS as well would be ideal.



Ezquimacore on 29 December 2014

you're negative



DerNebel on 29 December 2014
Ezquimacore said:

you're negative

Not really. I gave a reason as to why I think that Amiibos are selling the way they are selling right now, nothing more.