Nintendo Awarded $7 Million In Win Against Counterfeit amiibo Sellers

Holy crap! That's about... 1,2,3... 468,677 amiibos!

With over $7 million dollars, they could easily use that money to make a new triple a Donkey Kong and F-Zero game for Switch 2. C'mon Nintendo make it happen.

So, how much did Amazon get?

Hey Nintendo!
When the blazes are you gonna stock/restock:

• New Callie / Marie?
• New 2nd Splatoon group?
• Mythra / Pyra?

Maybe there's a reason people are resorting to counterfeit ones!!!!

I haven't yet, I'm still hoping to get the official ones!
I have a nearly complete amiibo collection!

Amazon acting like an innocent and wronged party here is pathetic.

I understand in this instance why Nintendo is suing, it's fake products that probably don't even work.

If Amazon had better quality control and checking there would be no need for Nintendo to sue in the first place.

@Spider-Kev not so confident people are knowingly buying them. It's far more likely they are being sold to people who don't know they are fake.

@Dee123 Yeah things like these seem like they would be pretty easy to detect and stop.

And how much did Amazon make before taking the listing down?

I saw a listing on ebay for an entire set of amiibo cards for BOTW. Every single one that has functionality with the game. They work just like regular amiibos only they're little tiny cards instead of amiibos.

I just have to ask how are they getting away with selling these? Isn't selling bootleg stuff supposed to be against the rules on eBay or whatever?

@HammerGalladeBro Why should they get anything? They allowed this. Amazon should pay nintendo for all the counterfeit amiibo they sold. But I assume there was some kind of economical arrangement between those 2. This is why amazon sided (and collaborated with) with nintendo, to avoid being sued.

@Truegamer79 eBay has never done anything against scalpers, counterfeit or anything else. I don't believe they will ever get clean unless they get sued to oblivion by a giant company.

@Serpenterror it will cost a lot more than that for them to make a game especially a AAA one that probably wouldn't even cover close to half of a big budget game anymore.

@Spider-Kev Maybe a silly question, but have you checked the official Nintendo online shop? Don't know where you are; here in Europe, all the ones you mentioned are available, and at the basic price 15 / 30 EUR.

I'm always impressed with people collecting them all and wish you much success in achieving that!

I simply hope that Nintendo eventually replaces existing amiibo with cards. I have a massive amiibo collection but it is inconvenient to do full scans for games that need them. I will scan the full zelda line into botw/totk for instance.

@Serpenterror Looking through Nintendo’s yearly operating expense records, $7 million is the approximate value of simply running the company on a single day.

@Yalloo
USA
Nintendo shop sucks
Nothing was available for preorder, then upon release, everything was out of stock and never came back

@Spider-Kev Oh that's too bad ..

I was just looking at Amazon.com out of curiosity and it seems that some of the ones you are missing are available there. Of course I don't know what's the normal price of an Amiibo in USD and it looks more expensive than I would have imagined...

But again, all the best with your collection, it seems you're almost there!

$29.99 for the double packs, I believe

Counterfeiter no counterfeiting!

@Ryu_Niiyama While using cards would be more convenient, it would likely also make figurines of most of these characters incredibly uncommon. Like, why the heck would they make a Ness figure if it’s not an amiibo? A Lucas figure sure, but Ness and Captain Falcon will likely fade into obscurity.

@Serpenterror Uh, excuse me, I believe the word you’re looking for is “Space Mammal”(Star Fox for those who need specifics). It’s been too long since a frog has done a barrel roll.

@StewdaMegaManNerd ? The amiibo you listed already exist. My comment was about replacing existing amiibo with cards. Which is convenient, cost effective and Nintendo is more likely to do that than push for a new manufacturing run of old amiibo. I don’t understand the counterpoint you are trying to make.

@Ryu_Niiyama Are you saying that you hope they stop producing amiibo figures and replace them with cards, or are you saying you hope they focus more on cards without completely abandoning figures? If it’s the former, then the figures I mentioned will likely become harder to obtain over time, and we probably won’t be seeing any regular figures of them produced, which would be a bummer for fans of those characters. If it’s the latter, I’m all for it.

@StewdaMegaManNerd

Per my original post:"I simply hope that Nintendo eventually replaces existing amiibo with cards."

My statement was about existing amiibo. I have little opinion on future amiibo because I have no idea if Nintendo is going to keep making new ones and even if they do, they have already diminished series/lines. With amiibo unlocking less and less and without new games to push for a reason for support I simply can not (and have no interest in ) future amiibo speculation. However if I were to speculate, cards would have no impact on future amiibo production as a character with little reason to be made into an amiibo won't be made either card or amiibo form. (Also given the size of my amiibo collection, it is doubtful that I will buy anymore of the figures.)

So with that clarified. As only some figures are getting reruns (and that is likely stock liquidation rather than new prints.) I hope that nintendo expands its current card amiibo (animal crossing are in card form) to include existing amiibo for ease of current use. (no opinion or interest in speculation on future amiibo) I hope that makes more sense.

@Ashunera84 You're probably a hard core fan if you're buying amiibo. You can definitely tell. I'm not ruling out clueless parents or something but still