Amiibo Collecting
Feb. 10th, 2015 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owsf2000I started collecting Amiibo's for the Wii U. A system I don't own. I'll add "yet" to that statement, since there's still a chance I might go for it. Their last brick-o-update BS axed my original plans to buy one ... essentially today.
So the Wii U purchase is still on hold, but since Amiibo's are apparently a hot item that singlehandedly saved Nintendo's finances last quarter (I'm sure the various game releases did a lot for that as well, but they've sold 5.7 million of these stupid little things in the last few months.). And Nintendo is doing with them what they usually do with a hot item - totally fuck up their supply and demand.
Lots of the Amiibos are out of stock, many were limited editions selling exclusively from a particular retailer. And because they only cost 12.99 (13.99 in Canada) Scalpers have taken to the streets in full force.
You have people going into stores and buying up the rarer amiibos to resell on epay or amazon for anywhere from 30-50 dollars. (For a 12.99 item.)
That's kind of why I'm bothering to collect these things in advance, since I'll likely just not get a chance to get them later on. If Nintendo fucks up my opinion of them between now and when I decide to get a Wii U, I'll finally axe the plan and likely resell these amiibos I do collect. They're staying in their packaging for now until I have a Wii U at any rate.
Currently I have: Bowser, Mario, Peach, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, Sheik, and Toon Link.
The last two have been harder to find. Yoshi seems to be getting rarer, Bowser and Donkey Kong are similar. Apparently a new supply of Rosalina was released at the start of the month - it's exclusive to Target. Where Target is pulling out of Canada they lost the exclusive deal for up here and multiple stores are carrying it, or can carry it. I've yet to see any locally though. Whether that's because of scalpers or if they just aren't released yet I dunno. I have to pass by various stores daily anyway so I'll just take a quick run in to see if they get any.
If not, no big loss. I'm not expecting nor planning on getting a full set of these things. At 13.99 though, picking up the odd one is fairly easy to do. All I know is that I'm NOT going to be buying one from a scalper trying to charge me 30 bucks for the silly 2-3 inch figurines.
So the Wii U purchase is still on hold, but since Amiibo's are apparently a hot item that singlehandedly saved Nintendo's finances last quarter (I'm sure the various game releases did a lot for that as well, but they've sold 5.7 million of these stupid little things in the last few months.). And Nintendo is doing with them what they usually do with a hot item - totally fuck up their supply and demand.
Lots of the Amiibos are out of stock, many were limited editions selling exclusively from a particular retailer. And because they only cost 12.99 (13.99 in Canada) Scalpers have taken to the streets in full force.
You have people going into stores and buying up the rarer amiibos to resell on epay or amazon for anywhere from 30-50 dollars. (For a 12.99 item.)
That's kind of why I'm bothering to collect these things in advance, since I'll likely just not get a chance to get them later on. If Nintendo fucks up my opinion of them between now and when I decide to get a Wii U, I'll finally axe the plan and likely resell these amiibos I do collect. They're staying in their packaging for now until I have a Wii U at any rate.
Currently I have: Bowser, Mario, Peach, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, Sheik, and Toon Link.
The last two have been harder to find. Yoshi seems to be getting rarer, Bowser and Donkey Kong are similar. Apparently a new supply of Rosalina was released at the start of the month - it's exclusive to Target. Where Target is pulling out of Canada they lost the exclusive deal for up here and multiple stores are carrying it, or can carry it. I've yet to see any locally though. Whether that's because of scalpers or if they just aren't released yet I dunno. I have to pass by various stores daily anyway so I'll just take a quick run in to see if they get any.
If not, no big loss. I'm not expecting nor planning on getting a full set of these things. At 13.99 though, picking up the odd one is fairly easy to do. All I know is that I'm NOT going to be buying one from a scalper trying to charge me 30 bucks for the silly 2-3 inch figurines.
