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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata shared more on amiibo sales during the company’s latest financial results briefing.

According to Iwata, 63 percent of amiibo sales are from the U.S. and Canada. Europe is next with 23 percent, followed by Japan with 11 percent, and Australia with 3 percent.

Europe and Japan have sold out 70-79 percent of amiibo stock. In Australia, this figure is over 90 percent.

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Nintendo will be doing something a bit different with amiibo later this year. During its latest financial results briefing, the company revealed plans to incorporate NES and SNES titles with the figures.

amiibo owners will be able to scan amiibo, which will then allow them to experience “famous scenes” of different NES and SNES games on Wii U. There are play time limits, however – similar to what’s offered in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

Nintendo compares this to being able to switch out carts on a real console rapid fire.

Note that scene selections will be rotated, and you won’t be able to play an entire game for free. The functionality will be introduced in the first half of this year.

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Some new information has surfaced regarding amiibo functionality in both Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker and Mario Party 10 thanks to Nintendo’s German website. As it turns out, all figures will be compatible with the two games.

For Captain Toad, players will be able to obtain 1-UPs by placing amiibo on the GamePad. Mario Party 10, meanwhile, provides scratch tickets by using amiibo. This grants you some Mario Party points.

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Nintendo fan “moldyclay” has put together a third version of his amiibo compatibility chart. There are now entries for Shulk and new Mario Party 10 boards. View the chart above!

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Best Buy is joining the lineup of retailers to be taking pre-orders for the Mario Party 10 amiibo bundle. You can submit an order here. You’ll get a copy of Mario Party 10, plus a Mario amiibo from the Super Mario line.

Nintendo has launched the official hub for Mario Party 10 in Japan which features the following facts about the game:

Game requires 3.5GB of free space.
1 to 5 players.
1 save date per user, 35MB per save.
Miiverse integration, used in one puzzle apparently (might need someone to help translate that bit).
Playable with Wiimote and GamePad.
Compatible with amiibo ( Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Toad, Bowser, Donkey Kong, Rosalina, Wario), unlocking some special boards based on those characters.

You can check out the full site here. View some screenshots and footage below.

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GameStop is taking orders for the Shulk amiibo once again. You can grab the figure right here. Hopefully this isn’t like yesterday when Shulk was in stock for all of two minutes! Note that the amiibo won’t ship until May, based on GameStop’s listing.

Over at Gamestop, you can now grab Mario Party 10 amiibo bundle with not only Mario but the rest of the Super Mario line of amiibo as well! It’s pricey, however. It’ll cost you $125.

Note that this isn’t to be confused with the standard Mario Party 10 bundle that only comes with the Mario amiibo.

You can check out the new bundle at Gamestop here.


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