/v/ - Video Games

Is there a single person on the entire planet who played Miitomo for more than a week

Literally who

>Nintendo shutting down ancillary bullshit before butchering something actually video game related

Any other stuff I should know about this parallel universe?

>>14220029

>Nintendo shits out a crappy gimmick

>pushed by "journalists" and autistic fanboys it blows up in the media big time

>people try it for a bit and quickly get bored of it

>Rinse and repeat.

In other "Nintendo is shit" news. My niece has a Switch. She was desperate to get some amiibos so she can use them on the switch. Her mother asked me if I could get them cheap or pirate them or something. I spent the better part of an hour and £5 figuring out how to spoof them…

There are fucking hundreds of the things. And they all do jack shit. I can get my niece any amiibo her heart desires with regards to affecting the games, and I'm struggling to see why I should even take the 30 seconds it takes to flash a NFC chip since they all do nothing. How the hell are these things still selling? Are people really paying £20 a pop for a McDonald's toy that looks like Mario?

They are no longer dead last in the console race. The Switch is on its way to becoming the new Game Boy and the XboxeneX has taken the Wii U's place. Suddenly the shareholders aren't screaming how mobage is the future anymore so Miitomos damp squib release is just a shameful failure that needs removing. I'm not that shocked.

>>14220074

They are literally the only Bayo figures you can get.

>>14220117

You are wrong

http://www.e2046.com/advanced.php?sortby=5&keyword=Bayonetta

>>14220114

Nintendo have survived for the past fifteen years purely by luck. The Gamecube was good, but a failure. The Wii was a fluke. The Wii U was a colossal failure. The Switch is a success. This cycle will likely continue forever. Nintendo’s luck has never run out, and it likely never will.

In fact, I’d argue Nintendo’s successes in general were pure luck. There was no fucking way the NES should’ve succeeded, even with the marketing.

>>14220136

I'll sell you a figure of whatever character you want. It'll be easily as overpriced and crappy as any of those characters.

Or you could, you know, not buy McDonalds toys of video game characters.

You're acting like "these are the only figures of this character" is some sort of defense. Like it is a reasonable argument.

>>14220146

Shhh, anon. Facts and logic cannot penetrate the thick cloak of brand devotion which enshroud all good Nintendo fanboys.

>>14220136

Bayonetta has multiple figures

>>14220074

I enjoyed grabbing the squishy metroid figure for $5 that was incorrectly marked down.

Other than that, it's pretty fucking jewey. Not on the tier of "$5 for additional resources in your new game (once only)", but it's close.

>>14220166

>There was no fucking way the NES should’ve succeeded

It filled in a vacuum left by Atari and was the first time in nearly a decade a new console actually had much better games than the one before it rather than souped up clones.

>>14220136

They're funko pops with a gimmick. They took the worst of Skylanders and the worst of funko pops and mixed it with nintendo autism.

It's impossible for them not to sell.

>>14220166

>purely by luck

Nigger they have billions in cash reserves and zero debt, they're a very well run business unlike Sony. Even the Gamecube was profitable for them.

>>14220239

Source on funko being fuckod?

>>14220224

The LEGO ones were pretty neat. There were some really shit ideas, like NuGhostbusters and NuPPG, but others like Doctor Who, Scooby-Doo, Back to the Future, Sonic etc were brilliant choices.

It's a shame that was shut down, and I'm even more pissed off that there's no active attempt to start piracy and all the sets are at stupid prices due to fake scarcity by hoarders.

>>14220239

>Funko

You know there's a problem with a product when they line them along the entirety of a wall in a store and there's not a single one missing at any point in the day.

I've seen a display that was huge, then saw another one that was slightly smaller in another store 30m away.

I counted the smaller one, and that was 20 high and 60 wide, so 1200 figures were on display, plus ones in the back for restock that never comes.

>>14220267

If the lego sets weren't 15 to 30 dollars each they could have won the "toys to life" competition, but then again, we're talking about (((LEGO)))

>>14220262

https://archive.fo/kP4mJ

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/toy-maker-funko-worst-first-day-return-ipo-17-years-154438.html

>>14220287

LEGO aren't that bad in terms of Jewing people.

It's only when you want to buy the licensed shit. That costs more because they want the same profit per brick as every other set, but still need to make extra cash to recoup the loss from buying the rights to the toys, or may have a licensing fee per unit cost.

t. LEGO connoisseur.

>>14220306

Yeah, I know lego isn't jewish, I was echoing their names because of their over-priced products.

If the sets weren't so pricy more people could buy them, therefore, they would make more money. I actually know a lot of people who wanted to buy this game, but were pushed back because of the price.

t. legofag

mii-what the fuck now?

>>14220331

I agree. If they took a 10% hit on every item, they'd sell infinitely more, but at the moment it's a case of "It's worked thus far".

Older companies are less likely to chance their ways, especially if they're continually profitable.

>>14220306

I'll always have a spot in my heart for Lego after discovering the digital Lego creator they put out for free. Very few companies in their business would let you do something for free digitally that is their main source of income. They aint perfect, but they are alright in my book.

>>14220351

About as hard as reading a fucking post you mongoloid. How did you read that post and decide it was me asking how to spoof the amiibo things? Did you get two words in and rush for a hot take response? Can't into reading comprehension? Too autistic? I'm genuinely curious. What did you think that post is saying?

Also it says a lot about you that your answer is "buy this thing!" when both myself and another anon have pointed you can buy 100 NFC stickers for the price of that stupid bootleg base.

>>14220136

I have one for Shulk

that's it

>They're shutting down the one that's easiest to grind silver mynintendo coins out of before the switch rewards arrive

That fucking sucks.

Seriously though, I doubt any reason other than miitomo's ridiculous simplicity in grinding out Mynintendo rewards, I managed to get essentially all the awards just by checking in once a day and switching pants.

>>14220074

>in meeting with 9/10 sales woman

>doing image search for something gaming related

>image of Skylanders comes up

>ask coworker who was into gaming if he knew how those things worked and why they were so popular

>at the time they had made like $300 million

>He shrugs

>9/10 sales woman immediately injects herself into the conversation

>tells us everything about them including what individual characters can do

>says she collects them and has all of them

>mentions the figures she was looking forward to that would be available soon

>had us look them up so she could show us

>apparently she bought it for her son

>he quickly grew bored of them but she continued to collect them

>she was the only person in her house that played with them at a point

>her son would get annoyed with her when she would hog the system for hours playing the associated game

>>14220338

>He doesn't know

I think people are missing one big thing about miitomo and that is that miis are wii era branding and it looks like nintendo are slowly distancing themselves from that. Undoubtedly that isn't the only reason they are dropping miitomo or one of the main reasons, but id say it would be a part of the decision.

>>14220074

Consistent collectible figures of characters people actually want to own, is such a thing really hard to understand?

Why do people ask the same retard question time and time again?

>>14223435

I understand that a fool and his money are soon parted.

I'm just confused why so many people find being a fool something to be proud of. Or why these people think it should be self evident that their need to piss money away doesn't need to be explained at all.

>>14220029

Good. I expected a phone version of Tomodachi Life and got a data mining simulator. Fuck that "game".

>>14220136

If you want a US amiibo then try your local stores which is where I got my Falco or Ebay. If you want any figure and don't care what region it's from because you're just going to take it out of the box, then you can pick up a japanese import on Amazon.

>>14220074

I got the link one to get a weapon in hyrule warriors + some other useless shit.

All the other amiibos I have seen give practically fuck all though.

they killed miiverse so wtf did you expect?

>>14224902

>Did you hotglue her yet?

That would give it a better face.

>>14220105

The only amiibo I had was a Captain Falcon one. Key word being had, my dog somehow got ahold of it while I was sleeping and tore it to shreds. Poor cap really can never catch a break. I salvaged the base to use for the "functionality" at least, but the decorative part is obviously gone now.

>>14239022

Falcon CRUNCH

Where's the webm where the guy gets molested after being called a dumb dumb baby boy.

>>14239022

>having pets

>having unnecessary responsibilities

>>14220065

It was a fun activity between me and my gf

I thought Animal Crossing on phone would be better than Miitomo because of the activities you could do in the main series.

I dropped Animal Crossing in less than a week.

>>14240262

Miitomo was reall kind of fun.

If only they updated it to add furniture and clothing and interactions in the style of Animal Crossing, then it would've had more lasting power.

>>14240392

Miitomo hotel?

>>14223417

On this website lol

pretty sure it's main goal was just datamining