The Nintendo Switch has been garnering a lot of positive attention since its release last March. However, like most Nintendo gaming consoles, it has started to share the same and recurring problems most of its sister consoles are currently experiencing.
One of the handful of issues Nintendo users often air out are the amiibos. An amiibo is a collectible character toy figurine where players can store data for a corresponding gaming character from any Nintendo game. Nintendo also promised that players can also use an amiibo with other games. For example, a link amiibo can be used with games like Mario Kart or Metroid.
Amiibos have been around since 2014, so the premise of the toy figurine with a distinct gaming feature was actually working. However, players have been getting the same thing for the past two years, which involves unlocking a character's alternate costume or skin.
In Super Mario Maker, Yoshi's Wooly World and Mario Kart 8, players will only be able to unlock the alternate character skins and costumes from "Super Smash Bros" if the corresponding amiibo can be scanned first. This may not be a general issue to some Nintendo loyalists, but for players of this generation who like to have everything unlocked, it would certainly be a smear on the gaming experience.
Unlockable content is also another issue. For example the "Splatoon" amiibo for Wii U will unlock additional single-player challenge levels and arcade mini games. This means that even though some players have already cashed-in a considerable amount of money for the 50 plus amiibo from "Smash Bro," they need to shell out more cash for the "Splatoon" amiibo.
While most players understand that this is one way for Nintendo as a business company to spike up their marketing department, for some players, the growing amiibo population is slowly becoming an annoyance since it has not brought anything new to the gaming world.
