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.
Retailer listings indicate that there'll be a price increase for various Nintendo amiibo that have been announced for 2025.
$40 is absolutely ridiculous. $15 made sense, but you can literally get full on games for $40… what in the hell is going on?
$40? wtf that is insane. I got a few sometime ago and those things should be more like $15 tops for the quality of them. Nintendo going to Nintendo though, people will still pay $40 and scalpers will charge double that and idiots will still pay.
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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.