Are you still on the fence regarding Nintendo’s Amiibo figurines? Are you wondering if they might be a good investment? Well here’s some bad news – it looks like if you were late to the Amiibo party, you could be missing out on several figurines. According to recent reports, it seems that Nintendo has actually discontinued several of their Amiibo characters.
According to a tweet by retailer Video Games Plus, “Nintendo has officially discontinued Marth, Wii Fit Trainer & Villager amibos. Sorry folks these are gone forever.” It does seem a bit odd that Nintendo would discontinue some of the figurines this early in their life and while the company has yet to confirm the discontinuation of the characters mentioned above, they did hint at it.
In a statement released to Kotaku, Nintendo said, “We will aim for certain amiibo to always be available. These will be for our most popular characters like Mario and Link. Due to shelf space constraints, other figures likely will not return to the market once they have sold through their initial shipment.”
So like we said if you are late to the party, chances are you won’t be able to find some characters anymore. Of course you could try your luck on eBay although given their out of production status, they will most likely end up costing you more. In the meantime analysts have predicted that the Amiibo lineup will rake in a ton of money for Nintendo and have predicted revenue as much as $1 billion from the US market alone.