Topic: The Disappointing Scarcity of Amiibo

[Stratos]

After discontinuing them they should offer to sell their unlockable DLC in-game.

[RABicle]

LOL, their plan is working. Look how desperate you grown men are acting.

This is like beanie babies.

[Stogi]

Exactly what I was thinking.. I had no interest in them before but now I see dollar signs.

[Jo351]

I…I can't find Rosalina & Luma available for pre-order anywhere!!! *panics*

Target has it listed online, but unavailable.  I would just check that once a day and hope it doesn't sell out too quickly once they allow orders.  I thought about checking on pre-oreder in store sometime too.

As for me I am making a point to get the characters I want and no more.  So Samus and Marth obtained, Ike preordered and Rosalina to be preordered.  Now I just wait for the other FE characters and ZSS to be announced.

[Mop it up]

Amiibo, like Skylanders, relies on scarcity to get people in a fervor to scoop up the figures as soon as possible.  Believe it or not, Nintendo may be on the right side of this from a business standpoint, even if several of us get left in the dust for  wanting certain figures.

Yeah, this whole thing feels manufactured by Nintendo. Unfortunately, people are buying into it.

[NWR_insanolord]

Them giving a "maybe they'll be back, maybe not" kind of non-answer isn't ineptitude. They know exactly what they're doing.

[UncleBob]

What I think folks don't fully understand - it's not 100% up to Nintendo.  Will retailers place orders for these figures in enough of a quantity to get Nintendo to reprint them?

[Stratos]

I think the current fervor is indicative of retailers continuing to order all figures through the rest of the winter at the least.

[Phil]

I took the liberty of pre-ordering the particular Amiibo figurines I really wanted-- Pit, Captain Falcon, Little Mac, King Dedede, Mega Man, Metaknight, and Ike.


I "figure" that I already have toys of Diddy Kong and Luigi, so I don't really need an Amiibo of them.

[Soren]

I really only want Amiibo figures for the characters I main. Unfortunately, aside from Kirby, the others (Shulk, Robin, Zero Suit Samus) will require a pre-order at the earliest possible time.

[Stratos]

I am curious how they will do Robin. Will we get the boy or girl version, or both in even more limited quantities.


I assume we will see Lucina at some point (maybe a Chrom piece?). These waves are going to become increasingly obscure until we will be forced to pre-order entire waves if we hope to get them un-scalped.


I also wonder how long it will be until we start seeing non-playable/non-Smash characters.

[NWR_insanolord]

I just want Olimar. It can't just be about relevance and popularity, there have been two Pikmin games (and two remakes of Pikmin games) since the last F-Zero game.