Say goodbye to your little amiibo friends........
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MarkMclovin
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Just pre ordered Diddy, Luigi, shulk, meta knight, rosalina, Ike, toon link and mega man. That's a few of the rare ones for each wave.
AlphaTwo00
Member
never saw a village or marth on a shelf to begin with.
whete? I definitely don't see shill or rosalina on Amazon.ca
nobodyshero
Banned
Makes sense. Part of the continuing popularity is creating a demand, and sense of exclusivity. It completely sucks for me, haha. But I totally get why they would do this.
Leafhopper
Banned
There is still an AC3 LE in my walmart I see every once in awhile. Might be gone now.
Yup.
So if future Nintendo games are assumed to have some form of Amiibo support, and if a handful of Amiibos wont be sold after their initial printing sells out, are those "limited" figures still expected to be supported across the board? Why should Nintendo bother including functionality for semi-obscure characters that aren't available to purchase anymore 2, 3 years into this thing?
Keeping stock on an online store is not impossible, and they could have proven more flexible with demand.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Seems like people are buying them.
I'm not playing the "buy it on day one or you'll never, ever be able to find it" game. If Nintendo can't guarantee that I have at least a few months from the launch of each figure line to find and buy every figure I want, then I'm not going to bother.
If Nintendo is unable to sell some of the less popular characters to retailers, they need to start offering their customers the option to purchase Amiibo figures from them directly.
Palculator
Unconfirmed Member
Kinda horseshit. And I guess (hope?) this means they'll never hide anything significant to unlock behind the limited ones.
You're too slow
Gotta be there day 1, front of the line, when the stores open up
Only serious collectors and lucky consumers get Marth lol
I was holding a WFT amiibo in hand the other day, and thought about buying, knowing the situation, but I just can't bring myself to buy one. It looks cool, but I just don't care about the character beyond its novelty in Smash. At least my other nine amiibo each represent a character I really love.
fredrancour
Member
9 out of the 12 are still readily available on every online store.
Many retail locations are regularly getting cleaned out of them (last time i entered a store in person, they had 3 peaches and 1 kirby)
preorders for the next 6 sold out most places already.
Every time a scalper successfully sells people a figure at a 500% markup they tell Nintendo that some people really, really care about these things.
The competition have succeeded on annual games dedicated entirely to their figures, and get twice as much shelf space each in most stores compared to amiibo (at least, the stores i've been to have that much disney infinity and skylanders space)
Everything currently points to continued amiibo usage in the future as an amazing business idea for nintendo. Making figures advertised as compatible with many games long-term and then mothballing them would be a bad idea.
Orochinagis
Member
I still havent buy Samus...
BibiMaghoo
Member
WTF is wrong with Nintendo. Why do they deliberately stop the supply of shit that sells well?
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Well WFT has tits...
You guys are a bit loopy if you think that they will lock the digital content behind only certain waves.
When the next Star Fox game comes out, if Wave 1 Star Fox is discontinued, they'll release a new Star Fox Amiibo with a different pose. This is smart. It lets the people who like Star Fox to get now two different versions, it makes them limited and collectable (oh, you have that first wave Star Fox, cool!), and it sells to those who simply weren't into Amiibos when the first Star Fox Amiibo came out.
This is how figure collecting is, guys. You miss the release window, they're gone. Your character will get another release. It might not be the same pose, or the same outfit, or whatever, but it will get another release, so if you like the one that's out now, buy buy buy.
I think Amiibos are ugly, cheap, and pointless, but this is honestly a great strategy from Nintendo. I mean, look over in the FigureGAF thread. We have people who bought them SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY WERE BECOMING RARE. They were trash talking them earlier, and now, boom, sold. Damn, Nintendo, you smart.
When the next Star Fox game comes out, if Wave 1 Star Fox is discontinued, they'll release a new Star Fox Amiibo with a different pose. This is smart. It lets the people who like Star Fox to get now two different versions, it makes them limited and collectable (oh, you have that first wave Star Fox, cool!), and it sells to those who simply weren't into Amiibos when the first Star Fox Amiibo came out.
This is how figure collecting is, guys. You miss the release window, they're gone. Your character will get another release. It might not be the same pose, or the same outfit, or whatever, but it will get another release, so if you like the one that's out now, buy buy buy.
I think Amiibos are ugly, cheap, and pointless, but this is honestly a great strategy from Nintendo. I mean, look over in the FigureGAF thread. We have people who bought them SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY WERE BECOMING RARE. They were trash talking them earlier, and now, boom, sold. Damn, Nintendo, you smart.
kittenbreath
Member
thought experiment:
Try to imagine how many people in the US even know that marth exists
Now try to imagine how many of those people would be willing to purchase a marth amiibo
Now imagine that you are a company with limited resources to convert into a commercial product
How many marth amiibos would you need to sell in order to turn a profit after production and marketing costs?
Adjust your production totals accordingly
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Nintendo isn't turning down free money, folks, and they aren't doing this to fuck with you. Get real.
Try to imagine how many people in the US even know that marth exists
Now try to imagine how many of those people would be willing to purchase a marth amiibo
Now imagine that you are a company with limited resources to convert into a commercial product
How many marth amiibos would you need to sell in order to turn a profit after production and marketing costs?
Adjust your production totals accordingly
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Nintendo isn't turning down free money, folks, and they aren't doing this to fuck with you. Get real.
Common sense? Nintendo have tiers of popular franchises, it's no secret.
A tier; Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Donkey Kong, Kirby
B tier; Metroid, Star Fox, Animal Crossing, Wario
C tier; Pikmin, FZero, Fire Emblem
Who? tier; Wii Fit, Kid Icarus, Punch Out, Duck Hunt, Rob, Mr Game and Watch, Xenoblade, Earthbound
Some characters, such as Shiek, may be from a popular franchise, but most people won't know who they are.
Seriously. People are acting like they're stopping production of pikachu amiibo. Fire emblem isn't exactly a popular franchise, with it almost being cancelled if not for awakenings strong sales. And even as a smash staple not many people know Marth. Wii fit trainer and villager are from two very popular franchises, but they aren't particularly iconic so them going out makes sense too. Yea it sucks for fans that these were limited run, but these characters are pretty much selling out because they are limited, not because there's a huge demand. But stop acting like Nintendo is leaving millions on the table.
You're asking for an avatar quote so blatantly I don't think I can give that to you. :'(
I think it's 12/14.
James Scott
Banned
Again, Marth and WFT seemed to be undesirable going into the launch of amiibo. They are ugly and not really fan favorites (I'm guessing Nintendo looked at pre orders). It's not until after they became rare that they became desirable
Yeah, that's more blatant than when I describe the best game ever and ask, "Well guys, how would it be?"
They been up for preorder for months, like has been said, Nintendo wasnt gonna over stock the market and then they end up bombing and people dont buy them.
Now that they are selling out of course they will restock at some point, someone like Villager will def work with a new AC game so he will be back.
Unless Iwata or Reggie came out and said there will never be anymore of those no reason to panic, email statements from Nintendo means nothing 90% of the time.
Sometimes it can happen by legit accident, though. The other day when I was talking about Pushmo World in the Capt. Toad thread I didn't see it coming.
Actually, the WFT amiibo is pretty legit. Very nicely sculpted.
Ha, true.
Gamer @ Heart
Member
I don't blame them. With three series now using these figures, shelf space is limited and with three waves to go through they don't want to be stuck with inventory. Nintendo is not in the business of holding on to stock like that.
While I do think a couple of Amiibos are actually nice looking, yeah, this is the strategy. Was kinda obvious, thinking about it. Now Smash, later Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing, Pokemon etc etc...
Its okay, but goddamn it communicate your future plans better.
Villager uses the old design. If they need an Amiibo out for the next Animal Crossing they'll likely release a new one that is closer to the current taller design of villagers, or maybe even an animal character like Isabelle.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Here's the thing: yes, they were available for pre-order for months, but I don't make a lot of money. I couldn't pre-order them.
I understand that Nintendo shouldn't be expected to manufacture Marth and Wii Fit Trainer for years but how about a few MONTHS? Like, is it so crazy to have the option to purchase these figures a couple months after launch?
It's honestly not a huge deal for me. I'm more annoyed than angry. Nintendo has made the decision on whether or not to collect Amiibo very simple for me - I'm not investing my time and money into any of them. Life goes on. They, along with Sony and MS, have plenty of games coming next year that I'll put my money towards instead.
Shadow Ranger
Member
All future amiibos are on order, just to be safe!
If this is their marketing plan...it is working! Was really expecting them to be treated like Disney Infinity - buy 2 get 1 free sorts of deals. But amiibos have only had small savings deals over here. Thus is Nintendo life - better buy day one, or day one of the deal. After that, good luck! Similar thing for their games here.
If this is their marketing plan...it is working! Was really expecting them to be treated like Disney Infinity - buy 2 get 1 free sorts of deals. But amiibos have only had small savings deals over here. Thus is Nintendo life - better buy day one, or day one of the deal. After that, good luck! Similar thing for their games here.
Darryl M R
Member
What value do they add for most people? I'm not a normal collector but do they do anything for certain video games?
Buddha Beam
Banned
Man, that's so disappointing to hear. This was the kind of thing I would eventually go about collecting all of, but figured I'd have at least a year before certain ones started getting scarce. It's not even been a month.
Really stupid and probably very short sighted on Nintendo's part. They could do so much more with these if they wanted.
There's no point in collecting them now. I'm too old and don't give enough of a shit to start hunting things down for a high price any more. I bought Wii Fit Trainer on Saturday when I heard she was going to be scarce, but man. I feel like I need to grab a few more now.
Really stupid and probably very short sighted on Nintendo's part. They could do so much more with these if they wanted.
There's no point in collecting them now. I'm too old and don't give enough of a shit to start hunting things down for a high price any more. I bought Wii Fit Trainer on Saturday when I heard she was going to be scarce, but man. I feel like I need to grab a few more now.
RichiRamjag
Member
Damn, this stinks, I wanted a marth amiibo. My own fault for not acting quicker.
Just shows how off they were in initial shipments. We are seeing this much of a demand where people are selling such niche items for nearly 5x the retail value shortly after release.
It happens but I didn't expect it to occur during the holidays...
I hope this doesn't become a regular occurrence where Amiibo fans have to keep competing with scalpers during future wave releases. It certainly makes the "my poor wallet" phrase even more true for the collectors.
RadioHeadAche
Member
Villager appears to be available on best buy's site.