It has begun. A number of counterfeit amiibo figures have already started to appear online including Pikachu, Mario, Link and Samus. These are apparently showing up in marketplaces across Brazil. The obvious thing is to make sure that you purchase amiibo figures from reputable websites and retailers that you trust.
Thanks, MasterPikachu6
I’m still wishing for the day that someone starts to sell the NFC readers apart from the actual figures. I don’t really care about the figures, I care about the functions of the amiibos xD
*NFC stands (Happy Home Designer is on my mind for some reason)
Yo, is ya boy n I’m sellin D’z! Who tryna mess wit ma monies?
It real out chea cuz, I got dem Amiigoz fo da cheep!
Haha… Sorry, I couldn’t help but laugh at “Amiigoz”.
Totally!!
Kinda where I stand. Nintendo mentioned doing amiibo cards for the rarer amiibo and i’m 100% cool with that. Easier to store, hopefully comes with excellent art work and should be cheaper. Have figures for people who want functionality or just the figure, and cards for people who primarily want functionality and good art. Win Win.
They could even make card collections for the card amiibos, and they could make Hanafuda style card collections.
Hell yes! Maybe even make an amiibo Tap like app for an amiibo card game! Just another way to train your amiibo with more games.
Hopefully they dont become useless like the AR cards.
Eh just fuze the two together. ARmiibo. All functionality of both and you get a sweet 3D figure along with the sexy art. Even more Win for the Win sandwich.
^
But those should just be called DLC cards. Calling them amiibo cards is an insult to amiibos.
No they wouldn’t. Especially if they are cheaper, look great, and have standard amiibo content and functionality in them. Plenty of people love cards as much as figurines so there’s no reason one should be held above the other, especially if Nintendo did that whole card game idea I had and toss in some AR functionality.
Unless said amiibo cards come in packets with random amiibo cards & you end up with tons of Mario, Link, & Samus but barely any Marth, Robin, Shulk, etc, or none at all. Then it’s a lose lose…. since Nintendo is still sucking with the amiibo figures.
Eh that is a possibility, but I’d argue to say they are “loosing” with amiibo is a stretch. People are too crazy and know no self restraint and it ain’t any company’s business to instill that into their consumers. That’s consumer responsibility.
The only reason we have an amiibo shortage as severe as it is, is because people latched onto unfounded rumors that they wouldn’t be re-stocked and are just buying them like beanie babies. All them purchases are profits for them so really they’re winning and fans are loosing due to… well… themselves.
But….. if the fake work like the real amiibo….then why care? Especially for discontinued or hard to get amiibo, I just hope the quality is good.
The sad thing is that they look pretty close to Nintendo’s quality.
The sad part is that they look nowhere near as good as the official ones actually. How could you ever get tricked unless Maybe if you had never seen one before but still, the fake ones look like crap.
Do… Do…. They even work for the main purpose of amibo?
Doubtful.
Once someone figures out how to copy the NFC chip tho, we won’t have Amiibo shortages again.
Will Nintendo learn their lesson once these people made huge amounts of rare counterfeit amiibo, like Shulk?
Learn what lesson? That people stupidly will buy anything? They already know that.
At worst this will calm down the dumbasses who want to collect ’em all, ruin scalpers for people who just want figures and allow people who actually like amiibo functionality and figures to actually get things they like without some ass gobbler trying to make a buck or run off compulsive collect ’em all syndrome.
What a rude fuck
Pardon? I’m not quite sure what Xenoblade (@SilverChariotx) or myself said that was rude so I’m a bit lost to the reasoning behind your statement.
Welp… can’t blame the Brazilians, Nintendo hates them. Them and all us Latin Americans. But they hate Brazilians more, bring in the counterfeits.
Yup, as sad as it makes me, Nintendo really hates Latin America, we never had a chance at club Nintendo, and games in Spanish didn’t got here till 2008 whereas in Europe they were available since the GBA
you’re laws make it really hard for nintendo to get stuff there
Don’t worry. Nintendo hates everyone, except Japan 90% of the time, equally so you are all not alone.
I’d buy a counterfeit of all the rares as long as they worked. Why would Captaiin Falcon suit be an unlockable in MK8 if nobody can get him?
God Dammit
They look real but at the same time they dont.
My only hope is that there is a company out there willing to make Higher quality versions of the amiibos better than what Nintendo has got. Now Nintendos are not bad but they could be a lot better.
They look pretty good actually but something can always look good at first glace until you inspect more closely
All commons, nothing but commons! Thanks for nothing counterfeiters.
They’ve made all of them, and none of them actually work.
Huh? I can’t tell the difference? Eh, it’s not like it really matters anyways since I’m not buying these things anymore. Lol.
I blame the Brazilian Government for having their tax rates way too high for the gaming industry… seriously, they have to pay twice as much if not more for their stuff because the Brazilian Government wants those dollar dollar bills.
>>>I blame all human governments, because they are all incompetent, primitive and useless>>>
They’re actually 150 BRL (47,6 USD) due to taxes
You knew it was coming Pete!! Lol
The fake amiibos are here!! Lets call them……….. “Famiibos”.
Or Chiniibos. trololoolol
What did I tell you guys before in the post about Brazil? Pirated Amiibo are here. It’s mainly Nintendo’s fault tho. Make more so people don’t have to pay 50 bucks for them.
People don’t “have” to pay 50 bucks for them now. Just don’t get scalper amiibo and wait for the next run of what you want.
Not if you live in Brazil.
Oooooh~ Okay my bad. That’s Brazillian government issues though right? I’ve been hearing how they are not really great with anything gaming related since last gen
It’s bad enough that the real ones cost 50 bucks, but people are gonna buy these fakes thinking they’ll work when they are just empty toys.
Well that is bad I agree, but mostly whenever I hear people bitching about amiibo it’s either “I only want the figures, no one cares about amiibo content! MAKE MOAR NAAAO!!!! ” or “Ugh they’re so dumb and they’re for kids or man children.”
So for just the collectors and those that don’t care this is good. But I do understand your point and do hope something helpful can be done for those who really want actual amiibo and amiibo content.
These fake Amiibos are already on eBay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Amiibo-SUPER-MARIO-BROS-MARIO-Figure-DY43-/111685487145?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1a00f94a29
And they don’t actually work. Just so you guys know. Another seller mentioned it’s only for collection. lol
Look how crappy the paint job is. http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTMyOFgxNjAw/z/XuAAAOSwBLlVVh3H/$_57.JPG
Shame, but Try to live here and pay 60% of what you earn in a year for government, geez it’s so frustating.
they are counterfitting commons?????????
I just find it sad that there are other people (probably a company) that can recreate amiibo (minus the chips) and supply stock, yet Nintendo, the official, multi-million company, can’t restock amiibo other then the ones no one want.
They are painted by hand, they take months to get ready.
Lol, Brazil=Africa.
http://youtu.be/9udzIcVumbc
Nintendo has always been a toy company. Except when they were a gambling card game company.
Then that pretty much means Sony is the same… the PS4 is a console like the Wii U so basically you’re saying that Sony is a toy company now.
And when they had love hotels in the 50’s.
But then again, that’s Blackb0ndage… no one smart enough would give a rat’s ass about his biased opinions.
You’re one to talk. You’re biased towards Nintendo. XD
But do they work?
No, of course not. You get what you pay for.
Insert meme here: Actually I’m not even mad, that looks amazing.
Well as far as build quality, it looks to be on par with Nintendo. If they have NFC built in, they could pass for actual amiibo.
They don’t.
Made in china…
I’m not at all surprised by this news. It was inevitable.
Will you be proud showing your collection and saying, ” here’ my complete amiibo set, they’ re all fake.”
i swear if a scalper sells a fake rosalina in an official rosalina box. im going to lose it!!!!
Good news china
At least they don’t look as awful as some of the stuff back when Pokémon got big. Those counterfeits were plentiful and terrible. These at least look half-decent I guess. I wonder if they actually function though.
As stated, no.
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