Amiiqo - A New Way to Have Your Amiibo All on One Device

It is safe to say that Nintendo has scored big with the Amiibo's. Most are very hard to find, some are impossible. Flippers have really cashed in by taking advantage of the short supply and high demand, selling certain figures upwards of 10x their MSRP. Let's not forget about multi-child households having to buy multiples of each figure so each child can have their own figure. What if there was a way to not have to buy two of every figure, but also have all of them at your fingertips, their stats and data on one convenient device that works on your 3DS and Wii U? Enter the Amiiqo.

[MSBAUSTX]

How is Ninty blocking people from Youtube uploads but this device exists?

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

Nintendo doesn't blocked people from uploading anything.

They only take claims on Mario, Splatoon and Donkey Kong gameplay videos.

Meaning you can't monetize it.

It's still viewable and doesn't harm your channel.

Of course you people who don't upload Nintendo content would never understand how Nintendo does thing on YouTube.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

This won't last long, since it's gonna cut into Amiibo profits by allowing illegal downloads of figures that people haven't paid for.

A pirates' dream device for Amiibo collecting, but little else worth note.
Truly shameless.

[Nodoze]

If only there was a reason to even use the Amiibo in games. Outside of outfits and AI fighters, there really is nothing that they add gameplay wise.

It is kind of sad that the best implementation of an Amiibo in game is going to come from Activision in Skylanders. A true missed opportunity by Nintendo. If there were an actual reason gameplay wise to own them, they would be even more valuable. As it stands there isn't and it is primarily collectors that are buying them. There is really no reason at all to even open them.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

If Amiibo did contain bonuses that dramatically affected the gameplay value of the games they connected to, there would be complaints and riots over having that crucial content locked behind figures that are hard to find as it is.

As things stand, the content being offered by them is more consumer friendly, precisely >because< it isn't crucial content needed to play the games.

To give you an example, imagine if you needed at least one of every Amiibo in order to unlock all of the creation tools in the upcoming Super Mario Maker.

Can you even IMAGINE how horrible that would be for consumers?
People would boycott that s**t in an eye-blink.XD

If Nintendo started taking the Skylanders route by locking crucial content, like fighters in Smash or multiplayer maps in Splatoon, behind hard to find Amiibo, they'd see sales of their games hit rock bottom inside of a week.

Skylanders and DI get away with it because they're just two franchises, with the figures related to each one acting like expansion packs for those particular franchises.
They don't function in anything outside of their respective franchises, so if you don't like the games, the figures aren't a concern, either.
You'll never need a Micky Mouse figure to unlock content in Infamous Second Sons or Destiny, for example.

But Amiibo work on many franchises instead of just one, so they can't afford to host super important items.
If they started hosting crucial content on Amiibo across several games, that would mean you wouldn't be able to fully enjoy most of the games on the system without owning Amiibo.

That would be anti-consumer.

Amiibo are fine as they are.

[Miacosa]

So this device basically let's you pirate the Amiibo toys in a sense by cloning them to this device. I wonder how quick Nintendo will hit them with a cease and desist.

[ngg]

2 days ago, i ordered my Amiibo from http://www.NFCGM.com , i think it will arrive me very soon, then i will write something about it.

[lizard81288]

tag. I want to know how well it works.

[lizard81288]

From another site:
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This is worth a little bit of investigation (which doesn't appear to be happening).

The http://www.amiiqo.co.uk/ website doesn't have any useful contact details. It has links to Twitter, Google+, Facebook and YouTube, but none of them work (the Facebook link is the only one that points anywhere other than the website itself, and that goes to a broken link). The Contact Us page goes to a form (which isn't all that unusual but continues the trend of having zero information about the company). There's meant to be live chat, but there isn't. Legally, EU sites must notify people that cookies are being used - this site uses cookies but has no notification.

Digging further: the site is registered to Michael Weber, with the address:

1-3-3 Sakura House
Tokyo
164-0001
Japan

That seems innocuous enough, but there's a surprisingly large amount of articles on the web about this person: https://www.google.com/sear... - whoever is behind that name has a bit of a dubious history.

My guess at this stage is that there's at least as high a chance of this site being an attempt to scam PayPal payments and login details out of people as it is of being a real company selling a real product.
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