These Are Your Top-Selling Amiibos

<p>Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s Amiibos are selling like hotcakes wherever you can find them&comma; but some amiibos are certainly more equal than others&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As it was revealed at Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s recent shareholder&&num;8217&semi;s meeting&comma; the company revealed just which of its increasingly popular line of NFC &lpar;near-field-communication&rpar; figurines are beating out the rest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Despite their near-extinction at local retailers&comma; Marth&comma; The Villager&comma; the Wii Fit Trainer&comma; Pit&comma; and Captain Falcon are still holding strong in terms of sell-through rates&comma; or the number that landed in consumers&&num;8217&semi; actual hands as opposed to store shelves&period; Link&comma; Fox&comma; Rosalina&comma; Samus&comma; and Yoshi meanwhile round out the top 10 Amiibos in the same category&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As of late&comma; the top ten Amiibos in sell-throuh rates are&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>1&period; Link<br &sol;>&NewLine;2&period; Mario<br &sol;>&NewLine;3&period; Pikachu<br &sol;>&NewLine;4&period; Kirby<br &sol;>&NewLine;5&period; Samus<br &sol;>&NewLine;6&period; Yoshi<br &sol;>&NewLine;7&period; Zelda<br &sol;>&NewLine;8&period; Donkey Kong<br &sol;>&NewLine;9&period; Peach<br &sol;>&NewLine;10&period; Luigi<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While The Villager&comma; Wii Fit Trainer&comma; and Marth might very well have been the highest commodity advertised on social media these days&comma; it was Link&comma; Mario&comma; and Pikachu who moved the most units in North America overall&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Link&&num;8217&semi;s further topped the charts in Japan and Europe&comma; while Mario remains king in Australia&period; According to Nintendo&comma; the United States and Canada alone have made up 63 percent of all Amiibo sales&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Translated into English&comma; Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s broken up sell-through and sell-in rankings&period; Here are the lists by region for retailer orders and consumer purchases&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>                                         Shipments to retailers&period;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;02&sol;05031158&sol;Nintendo-Amiibo-Sell-In-BagoGames&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-77540 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;02&sol;05031158&sol;Nintendo-Amiibo-Sell-In-BagoGames&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Nintendo Amiibo Sell-In BagoGames" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"465" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>                                               Sales to consumers&period;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;02&sol;05031145&sol;Nintendo-Amiibo-Sell-Through-Chart-BagoGames&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-77541 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;02&sol;05031145&sol;Nintendo-Amiibo-Sell-Through-Chart-BagoGames&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Nintendo Amiibo Sell-Through Chart BagoGames" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"465" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In its statements to investors&comma; Nintendo didn&&num;8217&semi;t offer much information in the way of rereleasing any rare Amiibos &lpar;i&period;e&period; Wii Fit Trainer or The Villager&rpar; unless they&&num;8217&semi;re an in-game necessity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It is difficult for us to promise to continuously ship all of the amiibo figures&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Nintendo president Saturo Iwata said&period; &&num;8220&semi;We will&comma; however&comma; consider additional production in cases such as when an amiibo figure sells out shortly after launch&comma; an amiibo is indispensable to play a certain game&comma; and when we receive a lot of requests for an amiibo figure from consumers and retailers&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To date&comma; Super Smash Bros&period; for Wii U and 3DS&comma; Mario Kart 8&comma; and Hyrule Warriors have been among the most prominent to be compatible with Amiibos&period; <em>Kirby and the Rainbow Curse<&sol;em> along with Intelligent Systems&&num;8217&semi; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;codename-s-t-e-m-s-secret-weapon-spelled-f-u-n&sol;">upcoming<em> Codename S&period;T&period;E&period;A&period;M&period;<&sol;em><&sol;a> will also be supporting Amiibos – Kirby&comma; Meta Knight&comma; and King Dedede in the former and Marth&comma; Robin&comma; and Ike in the latter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Do you have any Amiibos&quest; Tell us in the comments below&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendo&period;co&period;jp&sol;ir&sol;library&sol;events&sol;150217&sol;index&period;html">Nintendo<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;theverge&period;com&sol;2015&sol;2&sol;16&sol;8050027&sol;nintendo-amiibo-sales-charts">The Verge<&sol;a>&comma; &amp&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gameinformer&period;com&sol;b&sol;news&sol;archive&sol;2015&sol;02&sol;17&sol;nintendo-reveals-list-of-most-popular-amiibos&period;aspx">GameInformer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;

Exit mobile version