Nintendo's Amiibo Figures Are Not Quite as Detailed as First Advertised
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Why is no-one whining that the Hamburger at McDonlads doesn't look as god as in the picture?
I doubt the world will fall apart from this, the few figurines I'll get will have the purpose of being a in-game player that I'll train and harness to the maximum so even I can't defeat him/her/it. I wouldn't mind if it was a blob, as long as I now whitch character it is.
Then again, for someone who would buy them to have on display I guess this is a bummer, as the first pictures we saw, and the ones in the latest Smash promo video looked absolutely awesome!
I doubt the world will fall apart from this, the few figurines I'll get will have the purpose of being a in-game player that I'll train and harness to the maximum so even I can't defeat him/her/it. I wouldn't mind if it was a blob, as long as I now whitch character it is.
Then again, for someone who would buy them to have on display I guess this is a bummer, as the first pictures we saw, and the ones in the latest Smash promo video looked absolutely awesome!
If you are going to cut corners in a way that will cause the prototype of your product to be noticeably better than the finished retail product for F***s sake DON"T show the prototype because you will only make people feel cheated and potentially sour them on your brand. This seems to be a lesson the industry is having difficulty learning *cough watchdogs cough*. If I had only seen the finished product it wouldn't have occurred to me that there was anything wrong with them since they're about as detailed as most comparably priced action figures I've seen but next to the prototype they look just cheap. You know how transformers toys nowadays have the full version for like fifteen dollars and then they have the smaller less detailed ones for half that price? Well that's what popped into my head when I saw those pics, except at least with the transformers there's the option of getting the more detailed ones.
tell me about it, i can barely figure out which side of this kirby figurine is his frontTKretts3 said:This is horrendous. I just got my Game and Watch figure and it is COMPLETELY watered down. Like, all of the detail is gone, seriously, they missed so much. Last time I buy any promotional material for a game. It's just a big black blob!
Jesus fucking Christ, can you people try to contain your GamerGate/anti-GamerGate shit to their own threads? It's bad enough seeing half of Off-Topic reduced to arguing about that nonsense, don't drag the fetid corpse of the damn thing into unrelated threads.Worgen said:
That was a highly amusing turn of phrase. Well doneEyeReaper said:
This doesn't suprised me, the prototype/ test image ALWAYS look different when they released the real thing, it's the olde case of quantity vs quality!
I might be generalizing a little, but I'm pretty sure kids don't pay attention to detail.
Nintendo never said they're for displaying.
You buy these figurines to obtain the virtual version of the character and they appear inside your game, Skylanders style.144 said:
Nintendo never said they're for displaying.
This is kinda sad news, but they should have never shown off the prototypes beforehand. I can understand them finding out a certain design would be more expensive to mold and paint than they thought, but many won't. I thought Nintendo was more secretive than that.
The Link figure's change makes sense since he was floating over the base and being supported by an acrylic twig. The new one has a giant pillar growing out of his leg and his other foot is touching the base. Wii Fit Trainer has giant support that looks like an ice block (ice beam victim?) up to her knee. These are also supposed to be marketed to kids and will need some extra stability and strength. (It was a bad call on the color of Link's, though.)
But for $13, they could have just adjusted the poses to minimize the support sizes. They look fugly, especially Link's crystallized golden shower. For some of us that price almost an hour and a half of dealing with irate customers and coworkers. That's worse than loosing some detail to practicality.
I'd rather pay around $20 for a detailed Samus (Prime model please, Other M's Freudian baby bottle-shaped arm cannon is off putting to me.) with a chip in it. But yes, someone would accuse Ninty of cash grabbing.
The Link figure's change makes sense since he was floating over the base and being supported by an acrylic twig. The new one has a giant pillar growing out of his leg and his other foot is touching the base. Wii Fit Trainer has giant support that looks like an ice block (ice beam victim?) up to her knee. These are also supposed to be marketed to kids and will need some extra stability and strength. (It was a bad call on the color of Link's, though.)
But for $13, they could have just adjusted the poses to minimize the support sizes. They look fugly, especially Link's crystallized golden shower. For some of us that price almost an hour and a half of dealing with irate customers and coworkers. That's worse than loosing some detail to practicality.
They already did it with the Wii U at launch. "You can either have the deluxe 32GB version with tons of goodies, or be cheap and get the one with basic functionality and a paltry 8GB of storage." (At least all the current bundles pretty much fixed that.) Why not try with something that doesn't matter to most people, instead?CpT_x_Killsteal said:
I'd rather pay around $20 for a detailed Samus (Prime model please, Other M's Freudian baby bottle-shaped arm cannon is off putting to me.) with a chip in it. But yes, someone would accuse Ninty of cash grabbing.
Well yeah the prototype always looks better than the mass produced version. And several of the differences I would attribute to lighting rather than quality. I don't really care either way, I've never been much interested in figurines, but the disparity isn't so great that I'd say they were lying. At least more than any other prototype has.
Considering the price, the fact they have a function outside being a figure, I'm okay with it, they don't look too shabby.
I'm not entirely bothered by the outcome, I've seen far worse quality statues/figures than this that ask for more (Transformers for a "prime" example.
At least Destructoid users took this well than here I'd say.
At least Destructoid users took this well than here I'd say.
If they weren't for displaying, they why are they using figurines? After all, if they only were only there to do something in a game, they could have made them like the QR cards that came with the 3DS and cut the production cost to nil.Aerosteam said:
And, since it appears that you don't know, when not being used for putting a character in game, the Skylanders are sturdy actions figures and are meant to be mashed up against one and another and have posable arms and legs, because they're toys that just happen to have chips in them.
These figurines, on the other hand, are just barely attached to the stand by a piece of plastic. Obviously, they not toys meant to be played with. The only justifiable reason to have them be figurines is that they were meant to be displayed.
You must be a real joy at parties with your ability to detect sarcasm. Also your first sentence literally makes no grammatical sense even by internet standards and that is saying something.Ultratwinkie said:
Nintendo isn't circling the drain. They haven't been doing fantastic but anyone with a brain knows they aren't in that dire straights. As for your comments regarding the figures I can't even begin to describe how condescending and repulsive those are.
No kidding, if Nintendo is circling the drain, then everyone else is already in the drain. Such as Sony, who's set to post a multi-billion dollar loss (AGAIN). Or how about we get into how every 3rd party is struggling to make ANY sort of profit with their offerings, profit margins continuing to get slimmer and slimmer while they are content to let the gaming audience continue shrinking thus making the future of the medium very shaky.KazeAizen said:
Anyway, this is completely typical; prototypes are ALWAYS better than the mass-produced models. Plus, if you notice, it's the more complex ones that have suffered a slight downgrade. The simpler ones like Kirby, Yoshi, and Mario (which Kotaku have conveniently ignored) have actually maintained the same quality. There is no need for people to get pissy about this.
The only conceivable reason for that change would have to be plastic quality.AdamG3691 said:
Clear plastic has a nasty habit of being fragile if the plastic quality isn't entirely up to snuff. They may have had to switch to yellow if the original stand plastic wasn't good enough. And considering in Link's case where the clear plastic is basically holding up the ENTIRE figure, it was probably necessary to keep it from breaking.
OT: I can definitely see the difference between them, but it's hardly a dealbreaker. They're adequate for $13 toys with electronics inside. And hell, I was probably only going to buy the Game and Watch one anyways, so it hardly matters to me either way.
I'm just glad these exist at all. Ever since the original Smash, I've always wanted Nintendo figures on stands just like these. And that is what these are.