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Nintendo Amiibo
What is Nintendo Amiibo?
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‘Amiibo is Nintendo’s toys-to-life platform. Amiibo functionality can be used directly with the Nintendo Switch, Wii U, and New Nintendo 3DS consoles by using built-in NFC readers. In addition, the rest of the 3DS hardware line can use an official NFC adapter.’
The Amiibo technology is similar to how the Skylanders technology works, which I mentioned in my last blog post. Amiibo is interesting because it’s just a plastic figure that can be loaded into the game via nfc. This is how I want my digital interactive book to work, only with plush toys.
The ‘toys-to-life’ idea is what makes it so special and so unique. I think incorporating this technology into a book could be really exciting and make reading fun again.
In the Amiibo range there are also Amiibo cards, which give another dimension to the external content. This is something I could include in,y book, cards as well as characters.
