Amiibos are worthless

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/11/12/amiibo-figures-can-only-store-data-from-one-game-at-a-time.aspx?

Game Informer learned that Amiibo figures will only be able to store data from one game at a time, and they have an interesting take on what this means:

If there is even a single additional game that uses the Amiibo data storage feature, this is a significant ding to the usefulness of the figures. Who is going to want to dump their level 50 Smash Bros. Mario? And if there isn't another game that makes use of the storage feature? That's not great news for Amiibo support and Nintendo's commitment to the product. This isn't a great situation no matter how you look at it.

Looks like it's not all its cracked up to be.

This thread is also worthless.

If i get couple of Amiibos it will be to have them collecting dust in some bookshelf. Samus and Link looks great :D

I'd rather buy them for collecting. They looks pretty sweet.

I was considering them, but they are too expensive in my opinion.

lol owned.

I stopped caring when I saw their real designs:

Yeah they're pretty much useless until Nintendo makes their own Skylanders/Disney Infinity game

This is stupid nintendumb should realize that people want to play games not with kiddiy toys, nothing says i am a man with toys that i play with for 6 year old. The PeeU is a joke.

Pretty sure they don't actually look as good as that, well the production models don't. I remember seeing a thread on /v/ about it.

Well dude in all fairness they did start as a toy company so I assume they trying to get back into them roots for maximal dollars. I think this will definitely pay off but some of the designs are not great, oh well. I'll buy a few for the family children. Why couldn't they just be 9.99.

I was thinking about getting 1-2 for MK8, guess not now thanks to this informative thread.

I'll still get a kirby.

LOL

We need to praise threads of this nature more, dont you agree?

They store data for SSB but in other games they unlock stuff. I'm guessing they will be mostly used to unlock stuff in other games.

I didn't even know these were a thing.

I know they don't do much but I want at least one. For use in smash bros. captain toad and yoshi's woolly world.

So they are Cross Game Compatible but not simultaneously ?

That sucks donkey balls.

I just want them to colect them, I actually don't think I could care less about their uses in game if I tried.

Just like the other 100% of gimmicks released by Nintendo

I hope they end up doing cooler stuff. Like giving us wool versions of those characters in Woolly World. Play as mario, made of wool, with your amiibo.

So? Buy more than one then.

I suppose so.

thats what im sure most will be doing. Its like buying action figures.

But like other said, I guess buying them for collections is cool. I still may buy a couple if available in local stores. I think there will be high demand for them, so they may be hard to get.

So what about Skylanders ? don't their dolls track data across multiple games simultaneously ?

At first I thought they were simple figurines. People like to collect those, so probably not totally worthless after all.

Unless you're six and really love skylanders, I don't see the point of collecting them. If you want a badass action figure for display, just get a Bandai Tamashii Nations one.

Rly? these picture looks like they are very detailed etc

@93BlackHawk93 said:

I stopped caring when I saw their real designs:

LMFAO!!

People seem to want them just as figurines... well, I guess that's okay if it serves that purpose. They're rather economic when you look at the larger high detailed figurines they make for certain collector items for games and comics and whatnot, and those things cost an arm and a leg, and here you can get a bunch of them for the same price. Still, that wasn't really their intended purpose.

epic fail nintendo...they better find a way to make an amiibo work for more than 1 game....

maybe a way to save the data on your wiiUI that you can write onto an amiibo when you want to switch games.

Eh, I'll buy a few just as little figurines to put on my shelf.

@Slashkice said:

I was going to buy a few to collect, but the retail versions range from crap to passable. I just want Zelda and Lucina figures comparable in quality to my Tharja:

Have you seen any up close. They all look "passable" on Amazon.

A storage device that only stores one games worth of data at a time? Sounds pretty stupid.

@Slashkice: Awesome! Bet that was a pretty penny more than $12.95. :P

Well that sucks.

Still going to buy all the Amiibos that are compatible with Hyrule Warriors for the extras they give. And they'd look neat on my shelf along with the crap-quality merchandise from Square-Enix.

The ones with more ridges/guides in their design or are more simplistic in nature tend to be the favorites. Makes sense since painting over areas without ridges or guidelines must be a real pain (like Zelda for example).

Considering Amiibos were designed to roll in $$$ and print money for Nintendo, they are worth a lot to Nintendo.

Regular action figures run in their price range anyways. These actually interact with the game.

It'll be worth it to people who want the collectibles.

Hmm.... hopefully they can still unlock content from a game even while having stored data from another game. :/

It's a cash grab, that's all these things are, a collectors dream, I mean it just does not make much sense o buy this one so in smash bros you get a special attack, wow all I see this is, is that they sure the success of skylanders and disney infinity and thought I want in on that. I mean how many people really gonna use them after the first go.