Miyamoto: Nintendo Looking How to Use Amiibo Functionality in the Future - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 20 December 2014 / 4,598 Views
Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto has talked with the Associated Press about Star Fox for the Wii U, Nintendo's next console and Amiibo. Nintendo is currently working on ways to add more functionality to Amiibo in the future.
"We'll continue to make future games that will have functionality with the amiibo characters as an additional present for people who bought them," said Miyamoto. "Beyond that, we're looking at how we can use the amiibo functionality in the future, including cards and whatnot."
"We're not making promises for certain figures, but the way amiibo is designed is that certain games can have amiibo specifically for that game," answered Miyamoto when asked about if the discontinued Amiibo's will be used in future games.
"Other games can take advantage of past amiibo that developers want to make their game compatible with," he continued. "In the future, we have the option, if certain amiibo figures are no longer available in stores, to release an amiibo in card form with the same functionality."
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