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Amiibos The Good The Bad The Ugly
Cordova, TN; March 20, in the year of our Lord 2015--Family
Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the family
friendly video games is going over the good, the bad, and the
ugly of the Amiibos. You what Amiibos are right? They are
Nintendo’s copycat of the Disney Infinity toys to video games.
And of course Disney Infinity is a copycat of the Skylanders
toys to video games. Nintendo did not innovate this idea, nor
did they get to it second. They are in fact reaching it in third
place. Some might even say fourth place if you take into account
those little toys that connect in with apps on the iOS and
Android. The point is they did not get there first. But now that
they are here, they are bringing their own flavor.
Let us get started with the good of the Amiibos. Families can
buy one Amiibo and it interacts with multiple games. Certain
figures can work with certain games in special ways too. Like
families can level up characters in Super Smash Bros. Also the
Amiibos are not needed to play the game. In both Skylanders and
Disney Infinity you will need those figures to play the game.
You can play Mario Party 10, Captain Toad, Hyrule Warriors,
Super Smash Bros, Ace Combat Assault Horizon Legacy+ and more
without the Amiibo characters. These little figures bring
additional content like DLC to the games. There are plenty of
cool, fun, fresh, and neat characters for families to purchase.
The figures look fantastic.
The bad of the Amiibos is the price. For what you get, the price
is too high. There is also a limitation on which characters
interact with which games. Some characters are more useful than
others. Meaning some characters interact with many games, and
others are very limited. Families need to do their research to
find out that the cool looking Mega Man does not work with many
games. The use of the Amiibos in online battles in Super Smash
Bros means the person paying for the best characters is given an
unfair advantage. So certain players are buying victory. The
only way to compete is to purchase and level up as they have
done. It sours the already bad online experience.
The ugly of the Amiibos is prices of hard to find certain
characters. Nintendo should pay attention to which characters
sold out, and release more on the market. They would make more
money, and please their fanbase. Do I really be the voice of
reason telling Nintendo how to make more money? They don’t even
pay me, and the people they are paying are causing an ugly scene
out there. When an Amiibo sells for five times the initial price
- Nintendo does not get any of that profit. They have a self
interest to release more of the sold out characters. Ones like
the Animal Crossing Villager, and Little Mac. The ugly is also
the characters like the princesses that are not selling and
getting a price drop.
It is my hope as video games keep getting released on the Wii U
and Nintendo 3DS that they include functionality for the
Amiibos. I also hope Nintendo keeps this going for future
systems they release. They have some fantastic characters out
there, and plan on releasing plenty of new cool figures.
Skylanders is making major bank out there on the market, and so
is Disney Infinity. Nintendo sees the dollar signs, and I am
sure they are making money off these cool toy to video game
products. Majority of the Amiibo figures look great.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming