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Iwata Came up with amiibo Idea on a Train

18.03.2015

Iwata Came up with amiibo Idea on a Train on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

How did the amiibo characters/figures come about? It all came down to a journey taken by Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata.

Back in 2013, the company president was sitting on a train toward Tokyo, pondering plans for the Japanese gaming giant. During the trip, Iwata began sketching a line of physical toys with built-in chips that would connect to Nintendo's different systems.

From then, he put together a four-page pitch to engineers and the rest is history. The result, released late last year, are a growing collection of NFC-powered figures called amiibo. It's not the first, though, as both Disney and Activision had capitalised on the technology since 2011.

At the end of 2014, Nintendo had sold close to 6 million figures.

How many amiibo figures have you collected so far?

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Luna Eriksson 18.03.2015#1

I have just one. The only one released yet that I want. Rosalina. I sincerely like her, she's a great role model, hence why I felt obligated to get her Amiibo. Smilie

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Sonic_13 18.03.2015#2

Andre Eriksson said:
I have just one. The only one released yet that I want. Rosalina. I sincerely like her, she's a great role model, hence why I felt obligated to get her Amiibo.

I enjoyed hearing that. Smilie

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crackedthesky 19.03.2015#3

You sure it was a train?

You sure it wasn't the Skylanders aisle at Wal-Mart? Smilie

Edit: Oh, and I wanted Shulk but scalpers ruined it. I'd love Lucina and (hopefully) an Inkling, but I'm sure scalpers will ruin that for me, too.

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Luna Eriksson 19.03.2015#4

Preorder like I did. I had Rosalina preordered from the moment she got announced! Smilie

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crackedthesky 19.03.2015#5

I didn't see the pre-order either time. They were gone by the time I learned they were up.

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Mush 19.03.2015#6

I have all of the Smash range apart from Meta Knight, Dedede and Shulk because Amazon screwed me over on preorders. I also doubt I'll be able to get Ness, because I missed out on the preorders which ran out almost instantly. -.-

Nintendo, please make more. The demand is unreal.

Insanoflex 19.03.2015#7

villager
mario
peach
bowser
big link
luigi
sheik
zelda
DK
samus
shulk
sonic
megaman

i really want little mac and captain falcon and king D.

Flynnie 19.03.2015#8

I've got Fox , Samus, Kirby and Falcon still boxed but I've got Link and Pikachu Unboxed. I've got Ness preordered as well. I also want Falco but then I'm done....

Phoenom 19.03.2015#9

Keeping an eye out for a shulk restock but the one amiibo I want badly is one of Wonder-Red. I don't even care if there aren't any games that support unique functionality with it, I just want a little model. Smilie