Anyways, I think at the moment the amiibo brand and functionality is uncharted territory. Although we know the technology is also going to be used in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Mario Kart 8, Mario Party 10 and Yoshi's Woolly World, we don't know how they will be used in games other than Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (and presumably, the 3DS version once amiibo support comes to that platform).
Also, we don't know which characters will be receiving figures yet. Sakurai said that he hopes for all playable characters in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. will receive them, which is rather telling in that although they're likely to, it might be confirmed yet that all of them will be available as amiibo. If they do, then at the very least we will have figures of Pikachu, Charizard, Lucario and Greninja (only Pikachu is 100% confirmed at this stage). Is amiibo are intended to be used across a wide variety of makes, it makes sense for the Pokémon figures to be used in Pokémon games, but how they will be is a rather interesting thought.
The Vs. Recorder in XY already has the option to let you have a mock battles against the teams you've saved battles of, but I do like the suggestion here of having an amiibo figure that is capable of recording the information of your team, enabling you to have mock battles against people. In those instances though, as both players will need to be together with their 3DS consoles, I have to ask why people don't just an actual battle?
I think one way of looking at this shouldn't really be how Pokémon can make use of amiibo as a figure-to-game platform, but perhaps, how Pokémon could make use of amiibo as a cross-system NFC opportunity? For example, imagine if a future Pokémon title comes bundled with a standard amiibo (for the sake of argument, something basic like a Pokéball or to be cool, it could be an amiibo of the version mascot). This amiibo could be used to say, transfer battle videos from your 3DS game's Vs. Recorder, which could then be used with the Wii U GamePad's NFC reader and a free eShop application to watch saved battle videos on your larger TV screen. Maybe there could also be a facility where people can upload their teams onto the Nintendo Network (as opposed to just battle videos), where they will be able to be downloaded for you to save to your amiibo and either directly battle yourself or run simulated battles against your team.
At various post-XY release events I've been to, even Nintendo have struggled to project battles onto the big screen (there has been unit failures and the realisation that some of their methods don't work with downloadable copies of the game). If amiibo could save our teams and let us battle on the big screen via a native Wii U app, it could be really useful.
amiibo isn't launching on the Nintendo 3DS until 2015, so I wonder if GameFreak would even bother incorporating any compatibility into those games when they could just save it for whatever game they plan to release after OR/AS. Sure, you said that the first e-Reader set wasn't released until R/S had been out for 7 months, but as OR/AS were announced only 6 months after the release of XY, I wonder if GameFreak will even be thinking of the Hoenn remakes when that time comes around.I see it being incorporated into ORAS as a loose nod to the e-Reader, much like the Pokéwalker being reminiscent of Pocket Pikachu and the original Mystery Gift feature. I doubt it will be very worthwhile, though.
Reggie Fils-Aime stated in an interview that amiibo will be priced similarly to Disney Infinity and Skylanders figures.Lost interest already. No character is worth that much, no matter the functionality.a waste of $15.
Not entirely sure what the cost is, but I think people who said that are basing it on Skylanders since I can't find official confirmation of their cost.
