Mario Sports Superstars Is Getting Its Own Range Of amiibo Cards

This is a relatively good idea. But my wallet says no

As I'm currently collecting every game on every Nintendo console, plus all amiibo, Animal Crossing amiibo cards, Kid Icarus cards and Yo-Kai Watch medals, why not add these in too...

Definitely getting this game. I didn't realize it had a release date. I am more excited for Ever Oasis though.

Meh

Forgot about this game. Imagine it'll pass me by as I make the Switch.

Does it have online multiplayer?

I'm glad they released cards for this game! I've promised my misses that I'll calm down on the amiibos for a bit and the cards hold no interest for me!!!

Nope. Nintendo's milking the cash cow in the toy to life market (fine, cards to life in this case) and I don't think it will last if they keep introducing new stuff like this.

YES! I've been waiting for Amiibo cards!

Was interested until I read 'cards'. Yeah, I only collect amiibos so I can have physical figurines of my favorite characters. With cards, I could always just print out an artwork of somebody.

Also since when does this game have a release date? March is way too packed for me to get this.

I want to see the card list.

March 24th? Holy crud that's only 2 months from today. I was almost positive this was a summer release with Pikmin in the spring, guess I got them backwards maybe?

Edit: Apparently I assumed summer b/c Nintendo said spring, and they are usually a season behind. Or best case scenario "spring" for them is June. March 24 is only the 3rd day of Spring, that's super fast for them, hence my surprise. Splatoon 2 is summer, maybe it will be earlier than Aug or Sept, E3 would be nice.

Not sure about the amiibo cards, where are the pics? Hard to decide on a card purchase without seeing what they look like.

Nintendo really needs a New 2DS for the amiibo reader. And FE Warriors. Or just get rid of the 2DS and promote New 3DS for $129, but that 2DS tech is really looking long in the tooth now.

Ok, so seriiusly, where are the cards? I guess they told us what they do so we don't get to see them, like they've shown us Zelda BotW amiibo but they won't tell us what they do. That Nintendo veil of secrecy is always in play.

I thought this was coming to the Switch?

Not interested in amiibo much less cards. Will try to get this one day one though. Is the european release the same as na?

@zip According to the Web page on NL is has multiplayer.

"The game includes single-player tournaments for each sport, plus local and online multiplayer modes."

Oh yeah, I almost forgot about this being a thing. Too bad, I was kind of excited for it. Probably not getting it though, since I'm saving up for the Switch.

Im gonna buy the game, but I wont buy the cards unless they do something cool that mario amiibo can't.

Okay, that's nice and all...but what about the gameplays for the Sports'?

Never been a big fan of the Mario Sports games, but I'm glad to see them expanding upon the amiibo card idea, but I would have hoped for them to do Pokemon first after they done the Shadow Mewtwo amiibo card.

Will pick up the game for sure.

The cards? Have to know what they actually do.

@Bananaman678 That's what I want to know. So far all the cards sound like pics of characters that already have amiibo - Mario, Peach, Bowser etc - why not just use them? My fear is each character will have a card showing them playing each of the 5 sports, so the game will read the card that way ie soccer Mario, golf Mario, horse racing Mario, baseball Mario etc- and the different sports cards will do something different. It's really the only way for them to sell a lot of cards in blind packs for $5 like that.

I'm guessing 80% of the cards are purchased by collectors and never used in this game. Well if they look good enough. I have 2 decks of Mario playing cards from Club Nintendo b/c Mario.

@Captain_Gonru see above post, we criss crossed. Did you see the article on the cases? I thought of you looking at the pic but never got around to reading the article. I'm in no rush for a case, it will never leave the dock.

That horse has somehow made Mario Odyssey look less weird

@zip Yes, nintendo confirm it into the trailer video few time ago

This game is on my to-buy list since I can't possibly resist another Mario sports title. But at that point I'll be in total Switch mode, and it might have to wait.

I wish they would actually tell us what the new amiibo do whenever they announce them in press releases like this. You can't just say they unlock "bonuses," then put them up for preorder without anyone knowing what they do. Sure, some people preorder no matter what (new Zelda amiibo come to mind), but they would get even more preorders in if they told us what they do. They have five amiibo figures, one of which is a whopping $20, and a whole new line of amiibo cards announced to release in just a month and a half, and we know absolutely nothing about their compatibility despite knowing about most of these amiibo since E3 2016.

This game looks cool....but why insist putting what could be a fun multiplayer game for friends on family on 3DS instead of on the actual console? I have a 3DS and my wife does, but we'll never be able to play with other friends and family for the most part.

Surprised I haven't been told what a scAM these are yet...

I love my Amiibo but I'm against this blind pack rubbish. It just gets so expensive, fast. Might as well buy real Amiibo!

I am more excited for Mario Horseracing than I should be.

That said, I've collected a bunch of the Animal Crossing cards, but would like to know what these cards do and how they look. Unlike Animal Crossing, Mario doesn't have as many characters to create cards for so I'm curious as to what they are planning on doing.

They should make a digital card game along the lines of Pokemon tcg or YuGiOh so all these cards have a bit more functionality.

Cool! I can't wait!

Yay, amiibo cards. Hope we get more games that actually make use of all these different cards. Nintendo Amiibo Card Smash maybe?

Hopefully they've got a Switch version in development too

Mario Sports Superstars actually looks like it could be a really nice package.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrtuP7bjffQ

I'm thinking something like this should def come to Switch too.

This is a nice but I can't see it being too popular sadly.

I forgot all about this. Switch month? Ouch, tough sell. It's probably gonna bomb...shame as it looks a decent game.

Oh, God. I'm already well underway collecting all the Animal Crossing cards, now they release these as well? RIP bank account.

It'll be useful to know the total number of cards, and how they'll be used.

I don't understand the blind packs. Collecting over 400 animal crossing cards is already overkill. It'd be different if it were 5 cards plus one blind. I think a lot more people would buy them. Amiibo cards have already gone on clearance for months now and still nobody is buying them.

I'm sure they'll have multiple series for this too as there are so many enemies, bosses, and characters to choose from. Not to mention dumb stuff like having cards for powerups, inanimate objects (? block), and spinoffs (mariokart, mariogolf).

Hey, I remember that game! The game was announced and then never mentioned again!

Actually I've been wondering why EA or Konami hasn't done NFC cards for the Ultimate Team/MyTeam modes, so it looks like Nintendo has beaten them to it.

As far me, I am super excited for this game, if only to have real football/soccer with Nintendo characters, but I can probably live without the cards.

It'll be cool with me if they offer basic DLC like new characters (I still fully expect that they added horseracing simply to have Link DLC), but any more important than that (like game features or team formations) I may opt out of the game entirely. I'm fine with DLC as a nice bonus, but I personally like my one and done purchases.

I bought some of the AC cards, hardly ever use them. Pretty sure I would hardly use these as well. Would rather spend my money on games, tbh.

@ZurapiiYohane64 I like the horse's eyes!

I'd probably buy these before the actual game

Uh oh spaghettios!

https://i.redd.it/793to25q4qby.png

http://reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/5pyqug/so_one_of_the_new_mario_amiibo_cards_uses_12_year/

I can't WAIT for this..and will deffo pick up a couple of packs of amiibo cards too. They look cute

Mario riding anything other than a Yoshi is extremely odd to me. That horse. Have we ever seen horses in the Mushroom Kingdom?

This is great news. Not the cards as I dislike these random things (in my eyes it's a cash grab when you can't see what are you getting and have no one around to trade with), but if they release it in March people who can't afford to buy the Switch on release, but will want to get a treat (consolidation XD) for their 3DS, will pobably get this.

@r4ind4nce Not so odd since this game includes a horse racing sport. You also don't see tennis rackets in Mushroom Kingdom XD but if Nintendo really wanted to please fans of Yoshi, they would made a Yoshis racing sport instead :3

Just when you thought these couldn't be any more of a SCam or that Nintendo couldn't get any lazier.

http://gonintendo.com/stories/272670-mario-sports-superstars-amiibo-cards-are-full-of-reused-art-asset

Actually looks pretty good. Would love this on Wii U, but that would mean an actual sports game on that console.