That would be both awesome, and fucking terrible. I don't want something that cool behind a paywall. Especially one where you have to buy a toy you wouldn't care about otherwise.

That's why Nintendo needs to hurry up on releasing these Amiibo cards. I'll pay $15 for a Super Smash Bros Deck or something so I don't have to worry about all  the content I'm being locked out of anymore.

Actually a MK8 style amiibo set would be perfect for this game.

Some amiibos give outfits and others for the mechs!

Ex: Samus like user "Samus aran" suggested with mech being her suit, and ZSS amiibo for an outfit for female.

Megaman amiibo for mech, shulk amiibo gives player a monado!

The thing that would annoy me about this is that I'm pretty sure Monster Hunter 4U is offering the same kinds of things as DLC for free. I don't like Amiibo, and I don't see why I should be forced to buy something I don't want for something tiny that I do, especially when that something is $12.

But how bout the people that buy amiibo? That wouldn't be fair to them. As long as its not the biggest deal in locking behind amiibo, i see no problem.

Amiibo should, like it was purposely suppose to do, have value in the gaming industry other than being collectibles.

Can't
contain
teh hype!

That part of the game looks sick!

Honestly, it would be completely fair to them. They are already buying something they want. No one buys abiibo because they want the unlockable content. They buy it because they like the figures. The content is just a bonus they franckly shouldn't be getting at the expense of everyone else who doesn't want them.

Things like Amiibo Tap are one thing, but locking out desirable content behind a $12 paywall is worse than even what Skylanders or Disney infinity are doing. At least they only effects one series each. These things are locking off content across multible Nintendo games. That's bullshit. It's not suddenly okay just because it comes with a toy. This is DLC done worse, not better. I'm not a toy collector; I'm a gamer. I shouldn't be forced to buy multible $12 figurines I'll never want just to have access to challenge modes and special costumes in Splatoon, or special mechs/suits in XCX, etc.

I don't understand how you can't see the problem in that. To you, it's a nice little bonus to the toy you bought. To me, it's a $12 physical anchor to content that would be free-$1 otherwise. I don't see why I should have to spend hundreds of dollars on toys I don't want so I can get all the content that a game offers, just so you can feel special about the value of your amiibo purchase.

Srry but Amiibo is suppose to be bonus content, and collecting them is also its purpose. Collect your favorite character, use in game. (SSB promoted this heavily.

Then your point has a hole in it with the upcoming AC house game with amiibo cards. I really dont see that as collectibles but more as bonus content.

I do understand where your coming from though, but i think having bonuses that dont effect the game is ok.

SSB= Good Use

MK8= Good Use

HW= Ok Use

CS= Ok Use

MP10= Bad Use (but to their defense they have the game at $50 with a $60 sku that comes with an amiibo)

Captain Toad= Ok Use (doesnt hurt at all, just visuals)

Kirby= Good Use

Yoshi Wolly World= Good Use

Splatoon= Bad Use (this one kinda depends, but for the sake of it i'll put bad)

All Japanese only games= Good Use

 Point is, amiibo's are used as bonus content. Just as long as it doesn't effect the game whatsoever, then its fine.

Obviously I'd love it if they cut the price all the way to $199, but that probably won't happen this year. I'd be very happy with a $70 or $80 cut, but I guess at this point I'm gonna get it even if they cut it only by $50. I need Mario Kart 8 and would like to play a handfull of other games as well.

I wouldn't mind most of this if there was just an alternative. The costumes in MK8 can't have been expensive to make. I want all of them, but I don't want any of the amiibo. It bothers me that I can't just buy just the costumes wholesale. If I want all of them, I have to buy like $100+ worth of amiibo. All so that someone who spent $12 on one can feel nice about their purchase. To me, that's amiibo done completely wrong. Same with Kirby, the amiibo exclusive items in HW, etc.

If the cards in animal crossing are cheap, I see no problem with it. My biggest issue comes from the fact that the value proposition is destroyed when you factor in the fact that there are people that value the content more than the amiibo, but have to pay the $10 for the amiibo anyway. Like I said, if Nintendo release a card set with every Smash Character Amiibo in card form for like $15-$20, I wouldn't care, because I'd be buying them purely for the content they offer across multiple games while not paying an unreasonable amount more for the physical product I'm not remotely interested in. Release a Splatoon card booster pack with 3 cards for $3-4, maybe even $5, and I'm far more inclined to consider buying it without feeling like I'm being exploited.

But the prices for Amiibo because absolutely rediculus when you look at it from a content perspective, which many people now have to.

Also, there was a part of the Direct that mentioned that players can form a squad of 32 players, with which they can send Souls-like hint messages amongst each other.

I suspect some one will be organizing an official VGChartz squad, right? Don't disappoint me, guys.