Amiibo

Amiibo (stylized as amiibo) is an upcoming line of near field communication-based figurines used as add-ons to games with amiibo compatibility. The line launched on November 21, 2014 in North America, and will be released on November 28, 2014 in Europe, both released on the same day as Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, the first amiibo-compatible game. To use the figures, players must have downloaded System Update 5.3.0 for their Wii U system.

amiibo can be used with Wii U software by placing a figure on the near-field communicator built into the Wii U GamePad under the D-pad. A peripheral for the Nintendo 3DS, a circular white platform, has also been stated to be released in 2015 that will wirelessly connect to the 3DS to send and receive data; the new Nintendo 3DS, however, will feature a built in near-field communicator on the bottom touch-screen. amiibo will come with data already on them, but data can also be written on them by the hardware. Several figures will be compatible with multiple games; for example, the Mario figure made for Super Smash Bros. can also be used with Mario Kart 8 and Mario Party 10. Multiple games can read an amiibo's data, while only one game's data can be written to the figure.

Future Waves

 * Ness (Shown as a "FP" in the Super Smash Bros. For Wii U: 50-Fact Extravaganza video.)
 * Charizard (Shown as a "FP" in the Super Smash Bros. For Wii U: 50-Fact Extravaganza video.)

Trivia

 * The word "new" in the new Nintendo 3DS logo is stylized similarly to the amiibo logo.