The Nintendo Amiibo Discussion Thread - Page 51

Fox · #**501** 03-11-2015, 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by eternix

Well, I'll be camping in walmart........

Lol thats one good thing about walmart. You can wait inside. Maybe the employees will be nice and have people line up near the video game systems so you can play during the wait

eternix · #**502** 03-11-2015, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Fox

Lol thats one good thing about walmart. You can wait inside. Maybe the employees will be nice and have people line up near the video game systems so you can play during the wait

Oh, believe me i'll be playing something. The majora's mask!

eternix · #**503** 03-11-2015, 04:39 PM

Well in other news (IGN): LUKE KARMALI wrote "Nintendo has delayed its upcoming Gold Mario amiibo from March 20 to April 8, according to reports.

Several Twitter users who pre-ordered the Walmart-exclusive figure have received emails suggesting they'll have to wait that little bit longer."

Edit: Walmart confirmed this to be wrong. This never happened.

Link to source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/03/...c1d88872000010

Saturn · #**504** 03-11-2015, 06:54 PM

I can't find the wave 4 amiibo preorders anywhere and this is actually causing a little bit more stress than I ever expected. I will definitely stop collecting these amiibo. They should be called enemiibo instead.

Saturn · #**505** 03-13-2015, 05:25 AM

I couldn't help myself and I had to write a rant about these stupid amiibo:
http://advancedcollection.blogspot.p...-enemiibo.html

Fox · #**506** 03-13-2015, 06:11 AM

I remember when Nintendo was going down the drain. No good titles and nothing much was selling. But now theyre going up hill, turning Nintendo back into a leader in the gaming industry. Nintendo is super experienced. I highly doubt the shortage is due to problems at the port. This shortage I believe is due to Nintendo creating things in limited amounts to make their name stronger (as strong as it used to be) by making their stuff collectible and in turn making Nintendo amiibos for example, highly sought after.

eternix · #**507** 03-13-2015, 06:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Fox

I remember when Nintendo was going down the drain. No good titles and nothing much was selling. But now theyre going up hill, turning Nintendo back into a leader in the gaming industry. Nintendo is super experienced. I highly doubt the shortage is due to problems at the port. This shortage I believe is due to Nintendo creating things in limited amounts to make their name stronger (as strong as it used to be) by making their stuff collectible and in turn making Nintendo amiibos for example, highly sought after.

You make a good point they literally make a limited amount of their items which make them more valuable. That's a good and bad thing that Nintendo has done for itself. But for us collectors that don't manage to get their limited items

Saturn · #**508** 03-13-2015, 04:34 PM

Whatever their decision is, it's very stupid and has been very discussed throughout social websites. Making something this limited will not please fans at all. It's just causing them trouble to get the figurines and supporting resellers. This will end up in multiple situations:
- people having incomplete collections
- people quitting collecting them or buying different waves in the future
- nintendo doesn't make the same profit it could be doing, only resellers do
- many fans will pay good cash for the sold out figurines and those same fans probably won't be buying more if Nintendo ever decides to release more stock later.

This is not the type of item that should be limited. It's not a limited edition console or game. This is the type of item that should be mass produced because everyone wants them, even those who say they don't. Nintendo is just making a bunch of bad decisions lately and that only upsets costumers in general once they start to lose the patience from constantly trying to get the new waves. If they didn't have the capability of responding to demand, they should have tested the market differently, and not start with a roost of nearly 50 characters to release in Amiibo format, over half of which will become a nightmare to get because Nintendo thinks they are not interesting or popular enough - wrong!

Fox · #**509** 03-14-2015, 12:34 AM

Gamestop has Amiibo Sonic and Mega Man available right now, online only.

Twisted · #**510** 03-14-2015, 05:49 AM

is US Sonic amiibo and US MegaMan all that rare?..because i can easily find them on store shelves at toys r us and target..but that was last week..they had at least like 15-20 on the store shelves..last i looked about a week ago..i passed since i'm not really collecting amiibo, but there was no mad dash to grab these at my local stores.