might actually be able to watch live this week :)

Tragedy? It sounds like Nintendo has already sold out the whole Wave 4 Amiibo stock before it even hit the shelves. That's a victory! A triumph. They are making bank and this stuff is clearly a hit! I hope the live report is done in the spirit of a party with everyone celebrating the good times for Nintendo right now and not the dirge and funeral rites you're making it sound like. Why must every bit of good news for Nintendo be turned into a negative story?

Because what's good for Nintendo isn't necessarily good for us, the consumers. Besides, Nintendo does have a serious manufacturing & distribution problem when it comes to Amiibo. If they're going to base their entire business on the damn things now, it's probably a good idea if people who aren't scalpers can actually buy them.

It would be a huge "victory" for Nintendo if they cornered the mobile gaming market and abandoned dedicated gaming platforms altogether because they were making so much money in the mobile sphere. That doesn't mean it'd be good for us, or something that would (or should) be celebrated. That's the difference between being a consumer/fan and a shareholder.

I think exactly the same way as scott about amiibo.

I can't be indifferent as the radio free nintendo crew.
My head tells, these are a pieces of plastics.
And my heart tells to buy the amiibos that i love.

I love fire emblem and pikmin series. So far so good, i have marth and ike.
I like punch-out, wii fit, duck hunt, and xenoblade. i have wii fit trainer.
The others, i really don't care. Just toad, because of captain toad.

I can't pre-order, because i live in brazil.
By the way, if you guys want to know, where scalpers are selling north america amiibos in south america, the place is Ciudad del Este (paraguay).

Maybe it could be. In this day and age, everyone cares a phone and most use smart phones. Now instead of having to buy a new console or new handheld all the time, one only needs to own their phone to play Nintendo games. With mobile games being pretty inexpensive, think of the dough you'll be able to save by just playing Nintendo games this way. Heck, Ian Sane might be able to finally buy a smart phone because of the savings! Plus, Nintendo seems to be getting better and better at the free to play style of games judging by the reviews on this site of the various titles they've released of this sort. With this stronger and stronger understanding of how the mobile market works and their smart game design philosophy, it could turn out to be a great thing for all gamers, giving them a platform far greater than any console released so far (aside from a PC) and it could make them tons of moolah. But again, you, like everyone else it seems, view any potential change as doom and gloom and negative instead of thinking about how positive it could be. The game is rigged and Nintendo can't win.

The obvious reason why mobile games are so inexpensive is because they can't hold a candle to the quality of console games. Getting vastly inferior games to play on a vastly inferior device (at least as far as gaming on it is concerned) doesn't sound all that great to me. And true, they are getting good reviews for their F2P stuff, but it's in the context of being a F2P game. If you stack it up and compare it to something like Fire Emblem or ALBW, no one is going to call it an amazing game or a masterpiece.


I don't think it's entirely fair to say that everyone views any potential change as doom and gloom. Voice chat in online mode across the board would be a change for Nintendo and one most people would get behind. They're changing their account system, and I'm excited as hell for that, as are a lot of other people. Nintendo can certainly win. When it comes to Amiibo, find a viable way to produce enough to meet demand. If you can't in the short-term, don't introduce ~40 different variants in half a year and focus on making an adequate number of a select few instead. I don't even consider the shift in their philosophy and entry into the mobile market bad news or doom and gloom. The way they intend to do it now sounds like it's great for everyone. Console gamers will still get their console games. Mobile gamers will get some (hopefully) quality mobile games. If all goes well, Nintendo makes more $$$. But if they abandon console games, I (and millions of others) who have no interest in mobile games just got left in the dust. I don't see any realistic scenario in which that isn't a disastrous change.