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Nintendo Will Reveal First Mobile Game Tomorrow, Will Have Direct Before Year's End

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Nintendo dropped many details today about the recent past and the future of Nintendo. As the second quarterly report came it, it revealed many interesting tidbits about the 3DS and Wii U. But also, the company shed some light on some things we can expect in the future. For sales, while the Wii U did not have a burst in sales, software like Mario Kart 8, Splatoon, and Animal Crossing continue to sell very well. Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer has already sold over two million copies. Which is a surprise given that it’s not a typical Animal Crossing Game. As for Mario Kart, it’s nearing 6 million copies sold, meaning that basically half of the Wii U fanbase has a copy of Mario Kart 8. Meanwhile, Amiibo’s have now crossed 20 million sold, which is no doubt going to rise as the stock gets replenished. However, a fun note from that reveal is that the recent Yarn Yoshi Amiibo have already sold over 400,00 figures. This game just came

Nintendo Apologizes to Fans for Problems with Amiibo Line, Promises to Re-Issue Characters

Nintendo Apologizes to Fans for Problems with Amiibo Line, Promises to Re-Issue Characters

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If you are fan of those little figurines of video game characters called Amiibo, Nintendo’s line of toys-to-life figurines for Wii U and 3DS video games, things have been rough as of late. It is hard to get certain characters with store exclusives and the mad rush to pre-orders. The deluge of pre-orders has caused websites to break down, and some fans have missed out on pre-ordering that desired favorite. In addition, there is a huge scalper problem with the figures. Scalpers buy out all the rare, hard-to-find Amiibos and then sell them for jacked-up prices. In short, fans become enraged, and a Nintendo catches a lot of the flak. Per Game Informer, Nintendo has finally responded to the fan complaints regarding “Amiibogeddon” as it’s called. In the new statement, Nintendo addresses  consumer demand outpacing supply levels and “looking for the opportunity” to reissue certain Amiibos that are out-of-stock. You can read the full statement below: We appreciate the enthusiasm that our fans continue to show toward amiibo. Sales for

Amiibo Market To Get Worse Before It Gets Better

Amiibo Market To Get Worse Before It Gets Better

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Odds are, if you’re into collecting Amiibo, you saw the above image and your heart sank into the pits of despair. You KNOW getting that is going to be a problem, don’t you? Either that, or you already posted about five pre-order eBay listings before you finished reading this sentence. These special gold and silver editions of the Mario Amiibo have not actually been announced yet. The images were leaked on Nintendo’s website by accident, then picked up and spread by the media before the picture could be removed. With no official word from the company, no one really knows how these Amiibo are to be obtained. Retail? Giveaway? Exclusive? At least we know it can’t be through Club Nintendo. As for the Amiibo releases we can confirm, the next line of Amiibo, the Super Mario line, is scheduled to go on sale March 20. It will be based on Mario Party 10 and feature new models of Mario, Luigi, Peach and others. The next wave of Smash Bros. themed

About Nintendo’s Scalper Problem

About Nintendo’s Scalper Problem

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We need to talk about Nintendo’s scalper problem. There have been isolated incidents here and there, but nothing like what we’ve seen ever since Amiibos hit the market. Wave 1 of the Amiibo figures came to stores last November. At first everyone in the lineup was available, but then Wii Fit Trainer and Villager disappeared and were not restocked. It was discovered Nintendo produced a much smaller number of the Amiibos they figured would not be as popular, with the result that they have become a thousand times MORE popular now that barely anyone can have them. Knowledge of this fact has caused the playing field for Wave 2 to become heavily skewed in favor of scalpers. In one case a man who hated Rosalina set aside $35,000 of his own money to preorder as many Rosalina Amiibos as he could possibly get, just so no one else could have one. The problem has been amplified with the Majora’s Mask 3DS, which in the two days since its reveal has

Miyamoto Clarifies A Few Things

Miyamoto Clarifies A Few Things

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The Associated Press recently conducted an interview session with Shigeru Miyamoto, a man who needs no introduction if you’re the type who looks for websites with names like “PopGeeks.” It’s one of the better interviews with Miyamoto, or any video game high-up, because it dispenses with the “how great are you” suck-ups and gets right to real consumer questions. That usually doesn’t happen. First thing: the dilemma of the disappearing Amiibos. Nintendo suggested earlier this month that three Amiibos from the original lineup might only go through one manufacturing run and then disappear. Miyamoto’s response is that some Amiibos are intended for just one game; for example the likelihood of Wii Fit Trainer having a second Amiibo use outside of Smash is slim. So in their eyes, it doesn’t make sense to make a figure for just one title for an extended period of time. But won’t people be buying Smash for years? Nintendo has a planned solution: they’ll be sending out Amiibo cards for late arrivals that perform the

Amiibos Activated!

Amiibos Activated!

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There is an old, long-running joke in cartoons where somebody will mention an idea, his partner will dismiss it, and then he’ll propose the same idea and remark, “How do I think up these things?” This was most famously seen in Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century, but has been repeated over and over by the likes of Plucky Duck, Timon, and now most recently, Nintendo. When Activision was developing the Skylanders franchise, they actually went to Nintendo first, hoping to create a co-production that would be a Wii exclusive. Nintendo turned them down, most likely because they didn’t think it up first and it would’ve meant swallowing their pride. Then Skylanders made a jillion dollars, and a Disney knockoff made another jillion dollars, and the big N suddenly thought: “Wait, I’ve got an idea! Little figures that you press onto a pad to make their likenesses appear onscreen! How do I think up these things, Porky?” “Abadee-abadeee-I have no idea.” As of today, alongside the launch of Super