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With the rampant success of Nintendo's amiibo toys, it appears that Sony is trying to slightly capitalize on the trend. Revealed via a GAME Espana video, it showcases six figurines from major Sony IPs, such as Crash Bandicoot, Bloodborne's Hunter, Sackboy from LittleBigPlanet, Wipeout, Parappa the Rapper, and Heihachi Mishima from Tekken 7. These figures will release on March 23, 2018 exclusively at GAME/Gamestop, will be manufactured by their subsidiary "ThinkGeek" and toymaker "Totaku", and will retail for $9.99 each. Unlike amiibo, however, these will not serve any function ingame, and are merely for collection purposes. A Kratos figure will also release later this year.

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[Pedeadstrian]

Y'all are acting as if Nintendo invented character figures. No one's copying anybody.

 

[AxlSt00pid]

Wow, Sackboy, Crash and Parappa?
What a shame it's gamestop only

 

[Bubsy Bobcat]

BOI is that a PaRappa figurine!!?
(pls make lammy figurine soon)

 

[Deleted User]

If I had the spare available cash, I'd get the Parappa figure tbh.

Anyways, I can see a few people making some custom amiibo figures out of these things.

 

[Harsky]

Looking at the toy line up and the Playstation Allstars games makes me realise that Sony doesn't have much of a first party library to dive into and they have to rely heavily on the third party. A great PS figurine line up would include

Jill/Chris from Resident Evil
Lara Croft
Solid Snake
Final Fantasy 7-9 characters

 

[pedro702]

Looking at the toy line up and the Playstation Allstars games makes me realise that Sony doesn't have much of a first party library to dive into and they have to rely heavily on the third party. A great PS figurine line up would include

Jill/Chris from Resident Evil
Lara Croft
Solid Snake
Final Fantasy 7-9 characters

well they still have uncharted,god of war, horizon zero dawn, grand turismo(i mean wipout got a car so why not lol) to name afew, but yeah i can see 3rd party ones like resident evil for sure.

 

[Harsky]

well they still have uncharted,god of war, horizon zero dawn, grand turismo(i mean wipout got a car so why not lol) to name afew, but yeah i can see 3rd party ones like resident evil for sure.

Also remembered more PS titles (some first, some third party)

Jak & Daxter
Last of Us (seriously, Naughty Dog might as well be part of Sony now)
Ratchet & Clank
Sly Cooper
Twisted Metal
Ape Escape

 

[lordelan]

Wow that shows us how less franchises Sony owns do pick characters from.

 

[Spectral Blizzard]

Where the hell is Nate and Random Anime Characters?
In all seriousness, Sony's gonna have Nintendo after their ass.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Huh, I never knew GameStop owned ThinkGeek.

 

[LightyKD]

I purchased amiibo solely for collection purposes. Heck, I won't even open them!

I get that. I'm just saying that having a NFC option for those of us who like to play with their toys would be nice.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

**Looks at Crash figure.**
**Crash is owned by Activision.**
**Thinks statement makes no sense.**

Wanna try again?

The difference here is Spyro is already apart of a giant toys to life series, so Activisition likely wouldn't be interested in making a basic Spyro figurine because it might "confuse the Skylanders audience", or something to that effect.

Also why the original Spyro trilogy is unlikely to see a remaster anytime soon, the Skylanders series, even now after the general hype is gone, is extremely popular and hella more profitable than the original Spyro, or even the "main" series games following the trilogy, ever were. In Activision's eyes, it's likely not worth the trouble making a Spryo remaster. At least, not until Skylanders finally shits the bed, anyways.

As to the news, I'd pick up a Hunter and a Crash as long as the quality is better than the turds Nintendo shits out with Amiibos. Granted, their later ones are at least somewhat better, but somewhat better shit is still shit. Would like to see Jak and Daxter and maybe some Ratchet and Clank figures as well, and Spyro if Activision get's their head out of their ass.

 

[CeeDee]

It's not amiibo if it doesn't have a chip. It's just yet another collectible figure. Of which plenty exist... It's not really like Sony is copying Nintendo.

 

[pedro702]

The difference here is Spyro is already apart of a giant toys to life series, so Activisition likely wouldn't be interested in making a basic Spyro figurine because it might "confuse the Skylanders audience", or something to that effect.

Also why the original Spyro trilogy is unlikely to see a remaster anytime soon, the Skylanders series, even now after the general hype is gone, is extremely popular and hella more profitable than the original Spyro, or even the "main" series games following the trilogy, ever were. In Activision's eyes, it's likely not worth the trouble making a Spryo remaster. At least, not until Skylanders finally shits the bed, anyways.

As to the news, I'd pick up a Hunter and a Crash as long as the quality is better than the turds Nintendo shits out with Amiibos. Granted, their later ones are at least somewhat better, but somewhat better shit is still shit. Would like to see Jak and Daxter and maybe some Ratchet and Clank figures as well, and Spyro if Activision get's their head out of their ass.

crash also appeared as a skylander figure incase you didnt knew.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

crash also appeared as a skylander figure incase you didnt knew.

Yeah, as a guest character for one whole level in one game.

Spyro was the "pioneer" of the entire Skylanders series and has like 10 different figurines across all the Skylanders games. Biiiiiiiig difference between a guest character and being a part of the entire franchise.

 

[Glyptofane]

Seems a little late for this, but I must have the Parappa!

 

[330]

The difference here is Spyro is already apart of a giant toys to life series, so Activisition likely wouldn't be interested in making a basic Spyro figurine because it might "confuse the Skylanders audience", or something to that effect.

Pac-Man games and cartoons are still up and running and it has a brand new look. However, for Super Smash Bros, Sakurai made them use the classic one. I'm sure they could do the same as well.

 

[jellybones]

Merely for collection? Seems like a wasted opportunity.

What, you're a fan of having to physically go to stores for your DLC and deal with shortages?

I'm a fan of PS franchises so this is neat. I don't think I'd get them unless they're actually more detailed than amiibos.

The difference here is Spyro is already apart of a giant toys to life series, so Activisition likely wouldn't be interested in making a basic Spyro figurine because it might "confuse the Skylanders audience", or something to that effect.

Crash himself was already a Skylanders figure, so this point is moot. Not to mention that iteration of Spyro has, thankfully, been thrown away into the garbage after they realized they didn't need his branding.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Crash himself was already a Skylanders figure, so this point is moot. Not to mention that iteration of Spyro has, thankfully, been thrown away into the garbage after they realized they didn't need his branding.

Yeah, as a guest character for one whole level in one game.

Spyro was the "pioneer" of the entire Skylanders series and has like 10 different figurines across all the Skylanders games. Biiiiiiiig difference between a guest character and being a part of the entire franchise.

 

[OrGoN3]

I get that. I'm just saying that having a NFC option for those of us who like to play with their toys would be nice.

I understand. While I'm not a fan of physically locked DLC, I support your concern and agree these would serve better if they had some sort of functionality with the actual system.