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Nintendo on considering 3rd party amiibo, Miyamoto shot down one Shovel Knight amiibo idea

by rawmeatcowboy
28 August 2015
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A portion of a Game Informer interview with Nintendo's Damon Baker and Sean Velasco of Yacht Club Games...

SV: “We went over the entire range of possibilities of what we could do and what was going too far, what wasn’t going far enough, what does the Amiibo do, how does it work together. It was definitely a process. I heard that Mr. Miyamoto read one of my pitch documents and said, ‘No’ and that’s like the greatest honor of my life.”

DB: “We don’t want it to be exploitative. We don’t want to just throw stuff out there in order to just sell it. I think that we’re very much looking at how does this improve or increase the gameplay experience and how does that story make sense in the grand scheme of things. So that’s what we’re going to always evaluate. It’s the reason why we collaborated with Activision with Skylanders; because it made sense for their franchise and there was a cross-promotional message with Amiibo in there in terms of the technology as well. It just made a ton of sense. We’ll continue to look at third-party opportunities with Amiibo and evaluate them on a case-by-case basis.”

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