Topic: Mario Party 10 - OT

I'm sorry for being a bit thick here but does that mean each Amiibo can only store data for 1 game?

But those are a paywall. Why shouldn't you be able to buy the Costumes for Mario Kart 8 digitally or buy advanced AI that learns for each character digitally in Smash. Amiibo are a pay wall, the benefit is that you pay once and can unlock multiple things for multiple games, which actually makes it less of a paywall than normal DLC.

and Smash Brothers is the most useless application of Ambiio out of all the games shown. Stut like this and Project Steam have me considering getting Ambiio.

But this is a double paywall, since you have to erase the Smash data from the amiibo to be able to use the amiibo as a playable character in Mario Party 10. Unless they fix it technically in the OS by then, so we can temporary store amiibo data on the Wii U instead of erasing it.

We might skip the amiibo Party mode here and play the other modes instead. To me at least, it's the mini games that's the fun part, not how you roll the dices or move the pieces on the board.

It has been known since before Amiibo released that they can only hold data from 1 game. You get to choose which game. It is just one paywall for multiple uses.

So if you want it for multiple games (with write support), you need to get multiple plastic figurines. Which is silly, since Nintendo could provide a solution for it in the OS.

Yes but then they would make less money.

Nintendo website confirms the $59.99 price tag for the amiibo bundle. The last Mario Party game I brought was Mario Party 5. I think is time for me to give this series a second chance... now in HD

I see that Nintendo not only is using amiibo as a paywall, but there's not even online multiplayer. Bravo, Nintendo!

Mario Party is not the type of game that would work well with Online Multiplayer. And of course Amiibos are paywalls, that is what they are and have always been. I don't have a problem with it cause it is 1 paywall with multiple uses, rather than how DLC works where it is 1 paywall for 1 specific use.

Dem scales in Bowser's skin.

It was shown in the NA Direct so I think it will be

Yeah, there's 2 kinds of games for amiibo

Those that read amiibo data, like Mario Kart 8, or Hyrule Warriors where you just need to tap an amiibo and you'll unlock bonus content
And those that Read & Write amiibo data, like Smash Bros. or Mario Party where you can send data from the amiibo to the Wii U, but then can save new data back into the amiibo, such as level up systems for example.

But each amiibo can only store the data of 1 game. So you'll need to either erase the current data on it or purchase a new figure of that character, doesn't matter what series of amiibo it's from so long as it's the same character.

I'm just gonna go ahead and assume Toadette is playable

Most useless? How? I was thinking it was most useful...

I'm going to go ahead and assume that this game's roster will be the same as it always was, but with the addition of Rosalina and DK. What other new characters do you think we will get?

It depends on your playstyle, if you mainly play Smash via single player (Classic, All Star, Events, Orders), local or online multiplayer with friends and such then the amiibo functionality is most useless. If however you mainly play Smash mode with CPUs then it is more towards most useful.

To me, Hyrule Warriors' functionality is most useful because the Spinner is a fun weapon to use as well as the badge market and training dojo being either rather expensive or hard to find certain materials.

Considering this seems to rewrite to the Amiibo and it takes distinct advantage of the figure motif, I wouldn't say this is as much of a paywall as it is a gameplay mode built around Amiibo.

Project Steam's Amiibo functionality is a paywall if there ever was one though. Almost half the playable characters are only available from Amiibo, it's basically on-disc DLC.

This game looks really fun. I am happy DK is coming back as a playable character and the Bowser Party looks awesome. Any idea where to preorder the bundle that includes the Mario amiibo?

Awww mini stars are back I prefer the golden stars...