As we all know, there are only a couple of non-Nintendo amiibo currently on the market, with Nicalis constantly teasing the creation of an Isaac amiibo. Now we know why they keep trying to gauge interest, Nintendo requires the purchase of 100,000 NFC tags for $.30 each, or an up-front investment of $30,00 just to get the process started.
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?
At first I didn't get the point of amiibo's. Until BOTW came out and locked some stuff behind them. I did buy some of the zelda character amiibo's. All of the brand new in box (very lucky as pretty much all of them are hard to find now). Really like the design of some of them. That I felt bad when ever I went to open them.
Then I found out you can simply make your own amiibo using a smart phone with NFC and some NFC tags. So for the price of one amiibo. I just downloaded them and put them onto NFC tags to use with games. Keeping my ones in the boxes.