The potential release date may have been revealed for the Amiibo third wave figures (Bowser, Ike, King Dedede, Lucario, Mega Man, Meta Knight, Rosalina and Luma, Sheik, Shulk, Sonic and Toon Link).
A new amiibo has its release date from Nintendo, and pre-orders have started revealing the price and how it's the most expensive figure ever.
NE: "Nowadays, amiibo cost more than ever, and they don't offer many more in-game bonuses than before. Should Nintendo switch to cards instead?"
Everything Nintendo doesis expensive these days. This company loves to gouge pockets. What’s sad, people willing to pay for it.
I used to collect amiibos, especially the Smash Brothers ones. Ended up with nearly 100 of them. Eventually sold them all to a collector. I pick and choose which Amiibos to purchase nowadays, but usually it's the Zelda ones.
Upcoming amiibo figures from Nintendo appear to have received an official price cut - here are the new prices.
Nintendo gets away with murder when it comes to its game prices . They're still selling some of their last gen games for full price.
Not just full price, but $80 when last gen it was $60… and $70… which, don’t get me started on that.
£74.99 ($100) Switch 2 games didn't last long in the UK and games on key cards are annoying. Amiibo has been problematic from the start, prices a bit high, then the scalpers get hold of them, not forgetting stupid regional exclusives. On top of that, the content you get is fairly poor, then you have a figure gathering dust. For us poor gamers (me), Nintendo should've released Amiibo without the figures, just the bases showing who was who. I paid into a few of them during the Wii U era, but not Switch. With all of this, why would Nintendo be bothered?
23rd of Jan here in the U.K.
I have all of them on order except Lucario and Rosalina. Up here in Canada the preorders for both of those are non-existent.
Yay, I can't wait for Nintendo to send out only 4-5 of each for stock. So I can spend hours calling and running from store to store just to find 1.
The best way to buy these is via preorder. I have 4 coming from Gamestop and Lucario from Amazon France.
I think these are selling only because people are collecting them. They probably don't even have a Wii-U. I just think they are overpriced, that's why I haven't bought any.