NPD: 11 Million Amiibo Units Sold in One Year - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 11 December 2015 / 5,106 Views
Since its release last November, Nintendo's line of Amiibo figures has been a huge success for the company. In fact, it only took one year for Nintendo's figures to sell 11 million units in the US, according to estimates by NPD.
Nintendo revealed back in October that it has now shipped over 21 million Amiibos worldwide, and that the figures have generated over $1.7 billion in revenue.
Although it feels like you've been a part of the gaming scene for a while now, the first Amiibo was actually only released on November 25th, 2014.
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Amiibos are selling like hotcakes
I forgot that its only been a year! Soooooo much Amiibos have released already and this will only continue when the NX releases! So far i only have 11.
Amiibo alone has not generated $1.7b in revenue.
I already explained that in the comment section from the linked October article.
Ehh 1.7B$ no. I wish vgchartz does fact checking as priority.
Your move Call of Duty
Now if they want to REAL reach Disney Infinity/Skylanders level of sales.
Make a game like those two franchise's but for Amiibo.
I guess that is good, right? Doesn't Skylanders and Infinity do better?
I have never found sales numbers for Disney Infinity toys, but I would assume they do better than that.
Skylanders has passed 240 million toys sold since February 2015 (so they sell on average 60+ million per year).
Here is the Skylanders info:
http://i.imgur.com/jBjaChB.jpg
I have never found sales numbers for Disney Infinity toys.
However, Skylanders has sold over 240 million toys by February 2015 (so over 60 million per year).
Skylanders info is here:
http://i.imgur.com/jBjaChB.jpg
Other console makers sell a DLC character for $0.99 and everyone chastises them. Nintendo makes the character into a figurine and sells it for $12.00 and everyone talks about how amazing the sales are. Amazing!
You just showed how different those 2 things are with your comment, as well as how you don't really know how amiibo work either ; )
I know how they work. I have some. What they do can simply be less expensive DLC.
That I agree on. I'm confused on why you compared them to dlc characters though. The only game that does that is Mario Maker, though you can unlock those in game.
I'm sorry about making an assumption like that.
Lol, I totally agree. But it's Ninty, so they can do no wrong. Plus look at which site you're criticizing them in, you might get 100 down votes.
Amiibos works in multiple games. If amiibos continue on to the NX, your single amiibo can really worth a lot.
A lot of nintendo fans are just buying them to display . That's why no one complains about it as dlc.
