These New PlayStation-Themed Totaku Figurines Sure Do Remind Us Of Something

Kinda really want the Bloodborne and Wipeout figures. I wonder if they'll eventually make one of Aloy

Or Skylanders, or Disney Infinite figures...

See I like these but just like the Mario+rabbids fugure they have no purpose. I don’t have a big amiibo collection but the figures I do own I take into consideration only if they have a purpose for a game(s).

You do know there were these kind of figurines around before amiibo?

I gotta be me!

These are just another collector toy. Amiibo was not the first. Nor will these be the last.
I’m sure a couple will find there way onto my shelves if they keep expanding it.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE True, but Amiibo seem to be liked more for for various reasons.

Make a Gravity Rush one and then I'll pay attention

I will not buy any of them, even the Cartoonish Crash Bandicoot.
If i want toys like that, i will buy both specific Amiibos figurines and cards for their functions.
Or specific Nendoroids for display.
I had lost my respect with Sony.

I'm guessing these are wave one because there's no way they forgot first party characters from God of War, Uncharted, Patapon, Loco Roco, Ape Escape and Ico.

They could even use the Sly Cooper, Jak & Daxtar, Ratchet and Clank to add more.

And then work with third party to get Lara Croft, Final Fantasy 7-9 characters, Jill/Chris from Resident Evil , Solid Snake or even the Persona characters since they seem to be the games that people associate with Playstation.

I like the parappa too

Looks good.

No Kat from Gravity Rush, No buy.

@syrupdash

they didn't forget God of War. There's one of Kratos, he's just only in pictures of himself, not with the others.

I'd like to see Ratchet and Clank and Jak and Daxter in a future wave.

The Feisar being here makes me laugh. We all that love "character".

@Nonno_Umby I think we need a Kat and Dusty one and then a separate one for Raven and Xii.

...or just a complete collection. I need more Gravity Rush!

I saw a thread over at gamefaqs defending these lil knockoff figures by the same ppl who trashed amiibos. Sony fanboys sure are funny.

The sack boy one is adorable. I’ll likely be picking that one up.

Sony does what Nintendid.

No, they couldn’t possibly have been inspired by amiibo because amiibo weren’t first and there’s no NFC. Sony did not look at the success of Amiibo and the adult collectors on Nintendo’s platform, nope, they saw no collector frenzy that cared more for unopened amiibo packs than NFC function. They took no cues from Nintendo here! Lol ~kidding of course~

@SLIGEACH_EIRE @Octane While NFC Figurines were around before Amiibo, Sony have cut it pretty close with the packaging style & overall presentation... I think Sony are likely looking at people adding to their Amiibo collection with these figs.

Either way not really a big Sony fan so I'll give these a miss, still looking for a K.K.Slider at a good price though.

*Note, Mario is a smaller figure, Link etc. fill the box

Copyright claim!!! Don’t they know that Nintendo owns the very idea of a toy? Fools. (If you haven’t guessed this is a joke)

Man, Parappa sure brings me back. It was part of the demo disc for the PS1. Good times.

wait, Nintendo invented figurines? lol!... Only thing Nintendo came up with was a way to sell LootBoxes and DLC with them with an NFC tag.

The BloodBorn looks nice - They make Nier and ZeroDawn and they will laugh all the way to the bank.

I never cared for this stuff till I saw the Monster Hunter Stories Amiibos.

Lots of condescending comments when the writer obviously was referring to the very similar packaging. These look cute.

The Parappa and Wipeout ones are pretty cool, but these are totally unnecessary. The Amiibos I got are useful for games that I own which has a lot to do with why I got them.

Sackboy - is, er made, er of Plastic?

Why I lovee Nintendo
(wooly Yoshi amiibo , Giant Wooly Yoshi Amiibo , Wooly pooch)
<3

And later this year, we’re going to see a commercial by Sony that will show a new, innovative and different way to play with Playstation, involving cardboards.

@McGruber Agreed, the packaging & presentation of the figures are quite similar but nobody thinks Nintendo invented the figure with or without NFC features. People just like to attack... even if it's their own argument.

These are nice and all, but where are the Dead or Alive figurines?

PARAPPA!!!!!!!!!

@Pigeon "It's also important to note that despite the visual similarities - in both the design of the figures and the packaging"

I'd say there are some similarities to the bases as well (the Totaku have cut outs to the bases to make them crosses, but look to have a similar thickness & custom top) but that might just be me. Either way, the figures are in packaging.. so the line still works.

Where is Ratchet & Clank? Where is Jak and Daxter? Where is Sly Cooper? How can they not use these characters as figurines? Totally missed opportunity. Anyway, few of them are worth collecting, I don't mind buying another Crash figure alongside the Skylanders Crash

@Nonno_Umby Kat would've been a great candidate too for a figurine. Shame it didn't happen

@Malcrash Sony are probably holding a lot of big hitters back for a second & third wave. If they released all the good characters at once it increases the likelyhood of people only buying those ones.

Also, I didn't know Heihachi was a God of War charcter

@DanteSolablood I guess, but having at least one of them in each wave could have at least make sense. It would bring in some momentum and increases interest

Funko Pop says hello.

@Malcrash I'm guessing Sony think one of the others is a big enough character to fill the must-have slot. Personally the only one I'd actually consider picking up is Heihachi as I used to be a big Tekken fan... though even then Heihachi is at the bottom of my list of Tekken characters (just next to Mokujin).

Make a Jak and Daxter figurine, then we’ll talk

these figures just emphasise how horrible most of sony's character designs are

Meh, I might be interested in a Sly Cooper one. These still will never be as cool as amiibo though.

Theyre just figurines dude, and Nintendo took the idea from skylanders

Screw Sony, I want figurines from SEGA!

@PLATINUM7 I love the way the menu voice says "Feisar", though. Chock it up to my U.S. manner of speech finding it appealingly odd. "Fyezah."

Hmm...not sure I like the packaging, seems hard to see what the figures themselves look like as clearly when they're portrayed against such a colorful background.

The human characters look pretty good/detailed so far

There is no universe where I believe this isn't meant to emulate Amiibo.

My buddy at my local GameStop was very hyped for these when I was in there buying a copy of Skyrim for Switch, and after looking at the first wave I'm not really sold. I will be interested when they have some Twisted Metal totaku, and I'll also bite if they ever release Coco Bandicoot or Sly Cooper. I'd be lying if I said I didn't want a Gran Turismo DeLorean figure, but that's really stretching it.

It's a cool idea for hardcore PlayStation fans but I do find the Sony IP to be pretty limited in appeal to me. I 'might' pick up Crash in the first wave, but I'm not preordering or anything. Might also be cool to see Spyro, even though my buddy says that's not likely since Activision owns the license, but I reminded him Crash Bandicoot isn't owned by Sony either so... Yeah.

I need the Bloodborne hunter

I need Crash and Hunter so bad. Why is so much stuff releasing in March? It‘s almost as bad as the end of January/beginning of February. MHWorld, Dragon Ball Fighter Z, Lost Sphear, Dissidia NT, Axiom Verge Multiverse Edition, Shadow of Colossus ...

Not gonna lie, I was going to get the Skylander Crash figurine and put it with all my other amiibo, but it seemed a little too big. Glad I chose to wait on that because this one looks a lot better. As long as it's as big as your average amiibo, I might get this.

Reminds me of Amiibo and the World of Nintendo packaging...however it is gamestop, they will do anything for a quick buck and they are pushing "stuff" really hard right now.

"it's not quite as if Sony has shamelessly taken a leaf out of Nintendo's book as while these are indeed officially-licensed products, they're being made by a third-party manufacturer and not by Sony itself."

So if this was first party, its "SHAME ON YOU SONY FOR COPYING NINTENDO!!" but thank god its third party it's okay? What? Even if this was first party, it's not copying Nintendo of anything. I don't know why everything nowadays that has a slight semblance is copying Nintendo. It's not.

These figures sure looks nice and for $10, it's quite tempting to buy a few. I will like to see Horizon Zero Dawn, Yakuza, Nier, Persona, Maria from Bloodborne, Nioh and many more instead of the default characters you see from PlayStation AllStars. Remember that game? Me neither except for the character list being boring.

What? So these are Amiibos “inspired” or whatever because... they’re figurines? They have a base? I don’t get it. I mean Amiibos’ purpose are the Toys to Life function (something they weren’t first to create either, though they were original in how they implemented them), and these don’t do that... these are figurines. Similar to many figurines before them. And not even produced by Sony. That’d be like GameStop producing trading cards with Sega characters on them and implying that Sega is ripping off the Pokémon TCG because... they’re also collectible cards (despite them not being part of a game, the fact that Pokémon wasn’t the first TCG, or any other real relevance aside from being in vaguely the same category).

Like... these are moments I feel NL really must be desperate for articles, they’re not even Nintendo characters so they’re no more relevant to NL than an article on Candy Crush for the iOS but they found a way to try and connect it somewhat to Nintendo just to publish another article. These are hardly ripping off Amiibos and this is not actual Nintendo news.

They look nice enough, but they can't hold a candle to Nintendo's IP.

I don't know if it's all of them, but the Crash one looks a bit cheap.

I also do kinda want a Parappa, though.

I think they look a little bland and plain to be honest. Is sackboy made from sack like Yoshi? That could be interesting...but probably not because y'know Sony.

@Anti-Matter Sony didn't create these. Also, Nintendo copied Skylanders and Disney copied every other figurine with a base. Did you lose respect for Nintendo because of that? Of course not. Most things are a copy of something else.

So this is Nintendo news now Nintendo life? An article designed to create a flame war? Stick to Nintendo news please.

Seeing these figures are supposed to represent PlayStation, I find it amusing Crash, Wipeout, and Tekken have all appeared on other systems (Ninty). Surely Uncharted, TLOU and Ratchet and Clank are more representative of Sony?

These look pretty neat... I'd get the Parappa one!

Here is my two cents

1) This isn't a Nintendo news article. I guess it was a failed attempt for extra clicks.

2) That tagline was painful to read and would make and English teacher cry.

Better luck next time, McFarran.

Not you too, NL. I thought that electronic interactivity was more associated with the word "amiibo" than just a collectible figurine value. Why don't we call Pyra one for good measure?

The Bloodborne one is cool, other than that I'm not too interested.

Now if they make one for Kat from Gravity Rush I'm sold.

Arrived for the comments, leaving satisfied.

Pointless article.

I expect an article about the PlayStation trainers soon.

Damien McFerran doesn't have any time to play games that's why he writes crap like this.
He just spends his evening taking photos of the title screen from retro sega games.
Looking forward to his inevitable article containing pictures of these toys compared to bananas and a game boy.

@Octane i was thinking the same thing.

Amiibo weren't exactly the original toys to life/collectible figurines in the market like the sarcasm in this article suggests.

Can´t wait for the SwitchStation!

Pretty cool.

It's not like Sony to stand on the shoulders of Nintendo...

@DanteSolablood These are made by Totaku though. And look at the way all these toys are packaged, it's essentially all the same: A tall cardboard base with a figurine in a plastic box.

You know figurines existed before amiibo....right?

Are you joking?

It's funny because when amiibo was first announced, some of us were a little confused as to why NintendoLife was using words like "Nintendo's innovation/leftfield-ness, etc" when they were obviously a blatant rip-off of Skylanders (I guess there's only an uproar when it's the other way round...)

I joked that this was probably phase 1 of the operation, with phase 2 being the eventual wiping from history of the original product, so it can go down as Nintendo's innovation and anything that comes after will now be copying them instead (which is what happens with most of the innovations that people wrongly think Nintendo did first). I guess now it has happened after all, ha!

I like that Bloodborne one 😁

These are just figures though, Amiibos are interactive figures.

Neat to see ones of Parappa and Crash.

But They do nothing like Sony in general. 😁

@westman98 Except Sony isn't the one doing it. It's a third party...

I'm very happy to see that most here don't think it's Sony copying Nintendo when Sony themselves didn't create it. It's not even NPC at all. Just plain ol' figurines.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE yeah some people forget that

@Octane That's only if you use a vague description of toy packaging - If you're vague enough the Mario, Wario & Sonic are all the same... upright walking bipeds with gloves & eyes.

Personally I think the resemblance is there, but I'm not going to argue the point any further as it doesn't actually mean anything at the end of the day... plus I might even pick up a Totaku to sit with my Amiibo (and my 2 infinity Avengers) if a character I like comes out.

@DanteSolablood It's just that this is probably the simplest package for these type of toys. I know Infinity does weird angles and all of that, but those packages are probably more expensive too. I can't really blame Totaku for selling them like this. But yeah, what ever, they're just packaging material! Something you toss out anyway, unless you're an avid collector

They only thing I get from this is

Sony needs better mascots, nobody cares about neither of those, MAYBE crash and that's about it

Wow, you need a motorised fire ladder to reach that, NL?

Not only wasn't Nintendo the first to make nfc gaming toys, these are not even nfc and gaming figurines have been around for ages.

Speaking of the packaging, why aren't you complaining how Nintendo stole the packaging style from Transformers or, hell, almost any other toy sold on cards?

Jeez, desperate clickbait.

Cya
Raziel-chan

What everybody else said.