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Will the west be getting these figures, once the game inevitably (hopefully) comes out here?
Well the actual thing looks a bit different than in-game to me:
Well, assuming they come out in the UK, there goes my money. I actually like the Pokemon Rumble games!
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Smart, but they should have made a much bigger entrance with nfc.
Famicom? Fan Club?
200 yen is currently £1.49, so I expect these to be £1.99 in the UK.
And $1.99 in the US, probably.
200 yen is currently £1.49, so I expect these to be £1.99 in the UK.
And $1.99 in the US, probably.
NFC= Near Field Communication.
Like how Skylanders and it's figures work.
NFC RFID is a lot harder to exploit than a simple optical code. Hell, I don't think people have pulled it off for Skylanders yet.
Rumble is the most sensible at least as a first try, considering the Pokemon ARE already toys here.
How would they do this in a real Pokemon game anyway? Equivalent to promotions?
649 Pokemon. Gen 1-5.
eff that
I want less angular figures next time :X
Nintendo/Pokemon Company will be raking in the dough.
Cheap toys, cheap game...it's a no brainer.
Kind of an odd choice. I guess this is Nintendo's big Golden Week game?
This could be a genius move from them
If it was a full retail release maybe. This is download only- not going to drive any traffic to Wii U hardware.
remember that it is an eshop Wii U game.
Sounds like the little capsule toys I used to buy when I lived in Japan. They had these adorable SD Gundam figures for 200yen in gumball machines. A new collection of six or seven every month. Looked like this (wave 47?):
Not sure how they'd do it in America, because we don't have anything like that and I doubt they'd sell them randomly for $2 ea.
Starting with 6 regular figures, and one special one. Figures can be trained in-game and then have the data written back to the figures.
Story is that the toys fell in a river and were washed away from their toy shop and are attempting to return. Boss fights included, like Chandelure.
EDIT: Damnit Joe.
If they have some kind of starter bundle at retail that has a few toys and a download code card, that might help a lot.
Is this a new game or an up-port of Pokemon Rumble with the NFC characters added?
Is this a new game or an up-port of Pokemon Rumble with the NFC characters added?
Eh, unless the figures stand on their own as collectables the game won't drive them very far, especially as a DD game. I still Nintendo needs to sit down with the Pokemon company and plan a multiplatform, multigame lineup of figures if they want to go that route. It doesn't need to be Pokemon though, a new IP could do just as well.
Rumble is the most sensible at least as a first try, considering the Pokemon ARE already toys here.
How would they do this in a real Pokemon game anyway? Equivalent to promotions?
$2 is a pretty decent price point, IMO. I was expecting at least $5.
(though I don't know how much Skylanders figures are.)
Skylanders figures range from $8-$15 depending on the type of figure bought, so $2 is a steal for these Pokémon figures.