Nintendo milking their fanboys with Amiibo

Aren't they adorable? Pre-order today at participating retailers for only $12.99 each.

As I said in another post, they probably are expensive (as are most proprietary formats) and I'm not defending that. Sony, MS and Nintendo milk it all the time in different places. Hard to keep track when they've been in the business for a while and have so many products, and it's going to continue to happen. I can easily say that about Sony. But some Sheep can't even admit a simple milking effort like this when it's so obvious. Like their mouths just can't form the words "yeah, Nintendo is milking" and start trying to make Nintendo sound better and even brilliant: "oh, they are just smartly taking advantage of the collectibles market - great foresight on their part" or "they are giving gamers and fans options, which is a good thing" (but then post a picture of Memory Cards which are....options, lmao)

It doesn't bother me if people buy these Amiibos. Ain't my money. But they have to admit these Amiibos are superfluous things, with trivial stored data that levels up the AI stats of in-game characters. Didn't Sheep and others complain that too many publishers charge microtransactions or stupid little things that should be included in the game itself? So now they LOVE this Amiibo idea that is selling minor stats to improve AI character difficulty in SSBU that, I don't know, could've been included in the actual game.

I'm using the same complaints people here use all the time. But I guess it's tolerable and wonderful when Nintendo does it. Double standards, everywhere. Nintendo gets way too much of a pass for doing similar things, when they probably don't deserve it (they have more important priorities they need to set straight right now, not Amiibos)

I see absolutely no problem with this.