Mario Tennis Fever Officially Reveals amiibo Functionality And Every amiibo Supported

Odd that there's no ball for Goomba, Koopa Troopa and Boo.

Why does Mario's Tennis Ball look like the flag of North Korea?

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So, my Mario Odyssey Amiibo set (Mario, Peach, Bowser) are working or not?

Is weird how even though there are existing ones for Boo, Koopa, Goomba, Diddy, and Piranha Plant they left them out.

@wiiwouldliketoplay oh ok well let me just go into duckduckgo and see what it looks like.

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So that plastic toy junk has a purpose, yep this isnt worth having garbage all over my house

I watched the 5 minute trailer today and can't believe a ball design in tennis is their idea of amiibo support. Like why even bother at this point. And why so limited? All those new $50 amiibo should be unlocking new ball designs as well. Oh Nintendo.

I love that no matter what functionality amiibo have in a game, there’s always someone complaining why it sucks.

@Kyloctopus Honestly the one game I've seen I think handles it correctly is Xenoblade 3, in that everything they're used for can in some way or other be gotten without them, but it's all late game and a lot of it's kind of a grind.

Though Tears of the Kingdom isn't terrible in having the actually good unlockables be available otherwise while the more minor ones are exclusive.

@Anti-Matter they should work. In most games outside of Odyssey, they tend to work as a standard Mario, Peach and Bowser amiibo.

Will the Smash Bros Amiibo of the other characters still work?

Can’t believe these are still around. Genuinely though AC Amiibo Festival would have soured people on them.

So, themed balls is all we're getting this round? Had hoped for a bit more, but at least I can annoy my friends with a Yoshi themed one, then.

Amiibo seem like such a waste of money to me. 🤷‍♂️

It's nice that they're still having Amiibo support in games.

People with amiibo will be unhappy thinking is this all? But I have zero interest in amiibo, so for me it's actually a good thing that they don't do anything meaningful. Also it would be hard to justify that after paying full price for a game you need to spend another €20 on a toy to get something essential.

Assuming these are like the Mario Kart ones where you scan it once and unlock the design, I actually like these types of amiibo support. Although a ball isn't quite the same as a costume.
But it's way better than getting something disposable like a 1-Up mushroom which I never bother with

I can't believe we're still getting the same amiibo grumbles and disbeliefs we've had since they launched.

Most people buy them as figures first and weird DLC curios second. If you don't want the figure but you do want the content that's perfectly reasonable and Google can help.

I LOVE amiibo and they are worth every penny to me..I have them on my display shelves and the quality is great. I will keep them forever. I love it when they have some functions in game. The tennis ball is ok, but I'd prefer them to be as useful as they were in Ultra smash (Train them up as partners)

Unironically, I'd like some Mario Tennis Amiibo.

Amiibos are useless : "Whaaaaaat, those things are useless"
Amiibos are useful : "Whaaaaaaat they are locking features behind paywalls"

The internet.

A most pleasantly welcome surprise. Would have been nice if Ultra Smash's amiibo training mode made a return, but as a starving amiibo enthusiast, I'll take whatever few cosmetic scraps Nintendo has to throw at us too.

Would have been nice if some non-Mario amiibo would have unlocked some balls themed around other characters too, but... again... gratitude for scraps.

@Johnny44 I personally just like them for collecting as they’re really cool and are fun to put on the shelf. I do miss when they were actually useful and affordable though. At least they’re decent in TOTK.

Amiibo doing what amiibo do and the internet is mad about it. More news at 11.

This is a nice feature, but the least of the things I care about in this game. It looks like an action RPG combined with a tennis game, and I'm here for it.

Of course they are a waste of money ... as most collectibles are. But truth be known I have all of the Super Mario amiibo listed but none of the non-Zelda Smash Bros amiibo. The Super Mario amiibo are much nicer that the Smash Bros. I started collecting the Zelda themed ones as they were being released - so I had a complete set when BotW was released and didn't have to pay exorbitant secondary market prices for them.

The Zelda amiibo are still the only ones I collect - even as Nintendo themselves have now entered into the exorbitant first market price game. Still waiting for the Mineru amiibo though ( and yes, I already have the nfc card for it ). amiibo drops are better in BotW than they are in TotK though as the weapons they drop in BotW scale up as you progress into the game - gloom weapon drops in TotK simply suck. And I like the TotK Sages amiibo a heckuva lot more than the actual Sage abilities - which I turn off as soon as I complete their respective dungeons.

At this point I have more amiibo than I do games for my consoles. And with the recently updated release calendar for Switch 2 games, that will not be changing any time soon. ... So no Mario Tennis for me.

Can we be done with amiibo already?

I am sick of all these environmentally damaging greedy actions from companies that appeal to only a few people who seem incapable of thinking beyond the first and only day they will consider it cool.

Why don't they unlock classic outfits then just Balls that your hardly going to see or notice in game?

But at least its something...

I'm just going to put this out there, most cell phones can emulate nfc. Regardless of the content that's locked behind amiibo it's not ethical for Nintendo to lock content like this.

@Kyloctopus I made this observation 10 years ago. Some people are entitled, and entitled people tend to cluster on the internet.

@Jokerwolf …it’s a different ball design that doesn’t do anything different from the regular ball. It will hardly be a noticeable difference.

Welp, that’s something. It might not be something interesting, but it’s something. Why do we keep acting like people buy amiibo for the functionality?

@StewdaMegaManNerd it's the principal, just because it's something small doesn't mean it's right

@UpsideDownRowlet Hmm..

Hilarious that Nintendo finally drops amiibo functionality that doesn’t gate keep any cool features and now people are crying that it’s useless. This feature won’t deliberately sell amiibo, but it’s a little treat to anyone who’s invested in these products in the past. Nintendo fans are truly the worst, can we please just not complain about something for once?

Crikey, this year is looking really lackluste,
they must have something to announce soon.

At this point, many amiibo in my collection are really only for display purposes, which is fine by me. I've always seen amiibo as pseudo-Smash Bros. trophies, even for non-Smash releases.

I got various amiibo such as Pac-Man, Sonic, Snake, Simon, Cloud, Kazuya and eventually I'll get Terry and Sora, fully aware that they won't be supported much by Nintendo or their original companies outside of "scan any amiibo to get regular items".

Capcom seems to be the exception here since they have use for Ryu and Ken (but not Terry?) as of SFVI and they also have the upcoming Resident Evil amiibo and have consistently been releasing figures for Monster Hunter.

80 euros for a cartoon tennis game.

@DAHstroy In 99% of their games, amiibos are useless. People just made a huge fuss about Metroid Prime 4 (for no reason).

@Uncle_Franklin I think this year is going to be a MASSIVE year for Nintendo. They will get Mario Tennis out of the way, then give us one of those hour long directs that are PACKED with games. We might get a 3D Mario, probably something Zelda(either remake or new game), we will certainly get more Splatoon raiders info, possibly Pokemon Gen 10 as well.

The only thing these unlock is money from fools. A fool and their money are soon parted, even faster when plastic is involved.

@MoldyPasta Might, Probably, Possibly... Sounds like cope.

Honestly I felt like how amiibo was used in ultra smash was pretty fun despite never having the game so to see amiibo only unlocking new ball designs is kinda disappointing. :/

This is the kind of amiibo functionality I like best. It's a nice little aesthetic bonus if you have the amiibo but if you don't, well, it doesn't really make your experience of the game any worse if you miss out on a Rosalina-themed tennis ball.