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@Artwark @Quorthon :I don't think their goal is to reach a wide audience.

@unrandomsam: it's amazing how much you know about Howard Lincoln, especially being across the pond. Being from Seattle and a Seattle Mariners fan, I know a lot about him. Despite the lack of success with the Mariners, he did some amazing things with Nintendo, including battling to get the rights to Tetris which I recently read about. It's a shame he is not leading NOA right now.

@rjejr: Since I'm out here on the west coast I am going to swim out to the barges and get some amibo's. Look for my site rynosamiibos.com coming soon. My prices will be "fair."

Another day, another amiibo issue. Amiibo's need their own "amiibolife" site. I guess I should be glad that Shulk was a Gamestop exclusive in the U.S. and I got mine without any issues.

But we had to think about expanding the user base, we had to be able to market it and make it easy to pick up for consumers.

Makes sense not to include a charger then with the $200 purchase...

@HyperSonicEXE: Haha... I used to defend Nintendo but its getting harder and hard too.

It's official, NOA thinks its consumers are dumb.

Oh, and if you are trying to attract "new" consumers, why did you omit a charger to the "new" $200 3DS?

Nintendo, I thought you were concerned with producing less waste and being a more "earth friendly" company??? At least that is the impression I got with the low energy using Wii U, the lack of manuals, and the flimsy game cases nowadays but now you are creating even more physical waste for the environment with these products. Oh, and for the record I am not one of those environmental people (I have over 10 amiibo); I just find it funny that it is a reason they gave for lack of manuals and the weak game cases I feel like I can rip in half.

@Spoony_Tech: Agreed, @WaveBoy should be ashamed. This game is a NES all timer! One of the few originals I kept from my childhood. He must be blinded by his California Raisin shades. If replaying the game to get to the final boss is such a pain, then why not just save state it right before that fight?

If only games today had half the creativity that this game had...

Man, I aint got time to for all these games. Still have Hyrule Warriors to finish, Bayonetta 1&2, than the upcoming 2015 games like Wooly World, Xenoblade, Star Fox, and Zelda in addition to this game that “contains a lot of elements well over the volume to be provided by two regular games."

I'm sticking with amiibo's and and an occasional First 4 Figures figure.

@Hy8ogen Why you disappointed man??? You know I aint really got time for 2 video game consoles in my life.

I'm holding off until Xenoblade 3D is released, maybe there will be a bundle.

For as much "negativity" that surrounds Nintendo right now, their special/limited edition products sure are in demand!

The power of the Nintendo brand is real.

Awful week for the Wii U.

No surprise when you sell games for peanuts you need to have a ton of people buy your games to be profitable. As for me, I didn't buy a Wii U to play these type of games.

And some people actually thought it was something cool.

I would love a Xenoblade 3DS bundle, I think I may finally get a 3DS to play this gem again.

And now here come the complaints about amiibo's... First they were stupid, then they didn't do enough, now complaints about the little bonuses in other games besides Smash (their orignal purpose) and lastly people are made because they didn't preorder one from Gamestop when it was available for at least a month.

I paid off my Shulk, Mega Man, and Dedede preorders off last night at Gamestop hoping that will lessen the change for a delay/cancellation.

@rjejr: Aren't you glad your kids like those "other" toys instead of amiibos?

@ThomasBW84: Now Gamestop having issues with Wave 3 amiibos! http://www.gonintendo.com/s/246666-gamestop-facing-issues-with-wave-3-amiibo-preorders-as-well

NoA really hates its customers.

I have MP3 and MPT and I will still buy a copy of this. These games are AMAZING.

I get a tingle up my leg every time I think about this coming next week.

Not really. Outside of Trilogy, l already have the Wii U games.

@Porky: I use this with a Y-Cable: http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-Drive-Storage-WDBUZG0010BBK-NESN/dp/B00CI3BLPA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422552192&sr=8-1&keywords=western+digital+1+tb+hard+drive+wii+u

Y- Cable: http://www.amazon.com/eForCity-dual-Micro-B-Cable-Black/dp/B005M0ICG2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1422552454&sr=8-2&keywords=usb+y-+cable

I'm downloading Trilogy despite owning the physical disc. It will be nice to have a physical copy of the game. I just beat MP 2 a few weeks ago and thus finishing trilogy. Incredible games.

Have Xenoblade and will get Smash, so DK for me.

@NintyMan: At least with Meta Knight, it was up on Best Buy's site for preorder for a long time. Rosalina's was on Target's site for what, a couple hours in the middle of the night?

The make awesome figures no doubt but I will be fine with my WW HD tiny figure. My wallet can't handle F4F since they realease a new awesome figure every couple weeks.

Wii U is doomed!!!

SMG2 since I never got that and SF2010 when Capcom puts it on sale.

This may be the reason I finally take the plunge on a 3DS. I have to feel the power of the Monado again!

The is definitely on my not going to buy list.

GOTY (behind XBX of course)

Well if you are looking to get depressed, the comments here are a great start!

Only two amiibos I care about this round are Pac-Man and Ness.

@LUIGITORNADO: Preach it brother, these kids and their handhelds...

Woohooo!!! 6am baby! I will be sleeping.

Just played it for the first time this past December and it was great on my Wii U. AL TYPE will always be my favorite but this will be up there close to it. I didn't think it was the short if you actually explore the whole world.

@rjejr: Nice! Good thing they have the security tag on them!

@rjejr: Dat avatar

Scalpers are all over Nintendo products like crazy!

This year is really starting off with a bang!

Wasn't interested in first but the more I see it the more I am. Got Meta Knight and Dedede amiibo's preordered.

@ThomasBW84: I ordered one this morning from Amazon.com before this sold out this morning from both Amazon.com and Gamestop.com (including both editions with and without the guide from Gamestop). It is exclusive to Amazon.com, Gamestop, and Fry's per Nintendo's Facebook. Thanks for the early head's up this morning.

Already sold out on Amazon and Gamestop in a matter of minutes. Glad I got mine in!

Glad I got mine. Soon add Pit and Falcon to the list:

What is Nintendo supposed to do, people? Limit all people to only purchasing 1 of each kind of amiibo? Blame the scalpers/resellers that buy up the stock more than Nintendo. Now I will start the bidding at $100 for my unopened Little Mac...

@rjejr: First, let me say I hope your New Year's Eve and Day went well. I'm looking forward to when my kids are "old enough" to really enjoy New Year's Eve with them. Second, I need to get used to your new avatar. Now back to our 2nd favorite discussion, amiibo. I think one of things that gets mixed up with these particular amiibo is that they are the specifically the Smash Bros. line of amiibo. Zelda U, StarFox, XBX, the next Mario game, etc. might get their own line of figures so in that case I think amiibo is limitless. The fact that the Smash amiibo line works with other games, well I see that is a small bonus. I'm not arguing whether the Smash amiibo are "worth it" because that is up to each individual who is interested in spending $13.00 on a figurine of their favorite Nintendo character(s). The smash line of amiibo may continue on for many months but eventually they will get through all 49 characters and then I imagine they will produce other lines specific to their upcoming games. Yes, I have a Fox Smash amiibo and I would buy another amiibo of Fox that was part of the Star Fox amiibo line if available along with some other duplicates.