Too Simple..The Allmiibo.

How can something be too simple? Simple..

Timing is everything. Or rather, time and place. But let's not go there for now.

I'll give you an example; The allmiibo.

The WHAT? You might ask. It's a simple device which emulates amiibos; those lovely £20-£50-a-pop plastic figurines with an NFC tag up their arse, or perhaps in the base. Folk collect them.

Meanwhile for under a tenner you can get an allmiibo (or similar pixl.js-based device) and simply emulate any amiibo (as NFC is on-chip cheap-as-chips). Obviously LOADS of these things have been sold. Though not as many as genuine amiibo, I'd wager.

You can find many allmiibo-related posts online; usually along the lines of "how does it work?". Folk mostly don't seem to realise that it's already working. You simply select the amiibo you want and BOOM! The device is now the amiibo of your choosing.

Push the button RIGHT for the next amiibo in the list, LEFT for previous. This is not rocket science. As soon as you switch to the next amiibo, the device is now emulating the next amiibo. You need to "do" exactly nothing.

The solution they were looking for was probably more along the lines of "move it left a bit", referring to the physical location of the unit in relation to your controller's NFC transceiver.

At any rate, I have quite enough Nintendo merchandise in the house, so something simple like this suits me. Also, it means I don't nee to disturb my 5000-strong amiibo collection.

Just kidding. I have exactly one amiibo; Zero Suit Samus, being the cheapest amiibo I could find on eBay; for moving Mii data from the Wii U. Well, in the cheap range-but-with-a-cute-arse.

Do the math for a 5000-strong Amiibo collection. Add the price of that house-you'll-need-to-store-them to the £20,000 you paid for actual amiibo..

I may have entered a tangent..

;o)