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[JoeM86]

https://twitter.com/GAMEBrighton/status/636926216642121728



Hmmm...

Sorry if fake, did a quick search for that amiibo to no avail.

Edit: Deleted, but other retailers also posted it http://www.4u2play.de/trendartikel/amiibo/zubehoer/amiibo-shovel-knight/425662

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Will wait for another source.

 

[Acquiescence]

They're really running out of ideas of what to use for amiibos huh.

 

[ZhugeEX]

This has to be true now right? After everything else that has popped up surrounding this?

Edit: oh wait. This isn't on their website. Its just something they posted to twitter. In that case i'm going to take it with a pinch of salt.

 

[Grim Patron]

will take 3 please

 

[IamAwake]

Is this the first time an Amiibo pose and the character art on the box are different?

 

[kuroneko0509]

not smash series.... soo......

 

[Mermandala]

Shovelin' up the cash.

 

[Forkball]

You lied Yacht Club Games.

 

[Weebos]

Wasn't this also posted by another retailer last week?

 

[ShockingAlberto]

There. Shovel Knight amiibo, not a character in Smash Bros.

This is what I kept implying but everyone was too caught up with the idea that amiibo meant Smash character.

 

[nubbe]

I
Believe

 

[Toki767]

This isn't for Smash then I guess?

 

[Gnilres]

I still don't know..

Even if they DO release it, not sure he would be in Smash. It would probably be released alongside the retail version of Shovel Knight and used as a selling point there.

 

[Bronetta]

They're really running out of ideas of what to use for amiibos huh.

Running out of ideas? Wait till they do a Pokemon series next year.

 

[JoeM86]

Wasn't this also posted by another retailer last week?

Not with that image. I did a search for the imagery but found nothing.

The other retailer used an old fake.

 

[Tregard]

That is a new picture, no?!

 

[sixteen-bit]

This isn't for Smash then I guess?

maybe amiibo support is the rumored SK Nintendo-exclusive feature

 

[massoluk]

Yacht Club getting real cozy with Nintendo.

Will put him right on the spot next to Pac-Man, Mega Man, Sonic, and Mario.

 

[CengizMan]

This looks legit, but I'm kind of confused. So is it also an amiibo if it is a character that is not featured in a by Nintendo developed product? What is the definition of an amiibo?

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Bummer if he weren't in smash, pretty sure it'd attract lots of indie devs to be featured like that.

 

[Dragonslayer_023]

There. Shovel Knight amiibo, not a character in Smash Bros.

This is what I kept implying but everyone was too caught up with the idea that amiibo meant Smash character.

A Smash announcement is imminent.

 

[C.Olimar788]

Woah snap! That's awesome! I hope more indie titles get with Nintendo for Amiibo in the future, because I would buy pretty much all of them forever.

Reaaaaaally hope this means the SSB rumor is also true.

 

[Wanderer5]

Ha ha that kind of cool of him getting a amiibo.

 

[JoeM86]

That is a new picture, no?!

Yeah. That's why I posted this. I think someone at GAME posted this early.

This looks legit, but I'm kind of confused. So is it also an amiibo if it is a character that is not featured in a by Nintendo developed product? What is the definition of an amiibo?

It's an amiibo if it's part of the amiibo brand, which this seems to be.

 

[Lights and Waves]

That box art is ugly.

 

[GregLombardi]

They're really running out of ideas of what to use for amiibos huh.

On the contrary. Everything is game.

 

[Platy]

No mention of smash Bros ....

 

[Aaronrules380]

This looks legit, but I'm kind of confused. So is it also an amiibo if it is a character that is not featured in a by Nintendo developed product? What is the definition of an amiibo?

Nintendo would still be producing this I imagine

 

[KingBroly]

So...Shovel Knight costume for Mario Maker?

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Since this was the basis of the Smash rumor, looks like he isn't coming to Smash.

 

[Tregard]

This gives me A LOT of hope for a Yooka Laylee amiibo <3

 

[Regulus Tera]

Shovel Knight in Smash deconfirmed?

 

[Iriscomeback]

I'm still sceptical...

The box doesn't look right.

 

[MatrixMan.EXE]

They're really running out of ideas of what to use for amiibos huh.

They never had any proper ideas in the first place.

 

[Dragonslayer_023]

Shovel Knight in Smash deconfirmed?

There has to be something to use this amiibo with.

 

[Capra]

I want.

 

[Spukc]

i wish the people that still collect amiibo's all the luck

 

[Jawmuncher]

Since this was the basis of the Smash rumor, looks like he isn't coming to Smash.

Shovel Knight in Smash deconfirmed?

Was thinking the same thing.

There has to be something to use this amiibo with.

Mario maker sprite, Mario kart costume, maybe even a smash mii costume for sword fighter. List is endless, doesn't mean he has to be a smash character.

 

[JoeM86]

There has to be something to use this amiibo with.

Those would be the Shovel Knight games

i wish the people that still collect amiibo's all the luck

Luckily, stock problems no longer exist in Europe

 

[mclem]

"Nintendo products that Yacht Club Games will create in the future" strikes me as very interesting, if this is real.


However... the box is pretty clearly photoshopped. That's in itself not unreasonable; it could easily be work-in-progress or placeholder. But it does raise an interesting question: Why not simply show an image of the Amiibo, not the Amiibo in a box? The box isn't of interest to a potential purchaser, after all.

 

[entremet]

not smash series.... soo......

huh? how can you tell?

 

[Anth0ny]

i'm done with amiibo

i'm done with amiibo



....


i'm done with amiibo

 

[ShockingAlberto]

There has to be something to use this amiibo with.

The description explicitly says it works in Shovel Knight and other Yacht Club-created games.

 

[Aaronrules380]

huh? how can you tell?

Doesn't have smash in the corner

 

[KingBroly]

There has to be something to use this amiibo with.

It's not like Shovel Knight came out on Wii U and 3DS or anything...

 

[JoeM86]

huh? how can you tell?

Smash ones have Super Smash Bros in the top left corner, and the Smash Bros. logo

 

[Industrialist]

This looks legit, but I'm kind of confused. So is it also an amiibo if it is a character that is not featured in a by Nintendo developed product? What is the definition of an amiibo?

Is it a model with an NFC chip in it made by Nintendo to separate thousands of people from their cash while providing no real benefit other than sort of looking nice and maybe unlocking some small piece of content because everybody baulks at standard non-physical DLC but this way is absolutely fine?

Then it's an amiibo.

Yacht Club getting real cozy with Nintendo.

So cozy that their game has been released for so many platforms that you can be pretty sure that one day it'll be available to download to your Texas Instruments calculator from 1984.

 

[Bronetta]

They never had any proper ideas in the first place.

I wish I could make millions from not having any proper ideas as you put it.

 

[hupla]

Hopefully I don't get qouted 6 months from now by a poster with too much time on there hands if I'm wrong, but I'd say this would confirm hes not Coming to smash Bros.