by Doc – Owner, Founder, Feels Like Grandpa Seeing All The New TVs And Wondering What Happened
I was engaging in the bad habit of remembering that Amazon exists when I saw this:
I’ve previously talked about the Flashiibo, a lil’ gizmo that looks either like a teardrop or a rectangle and basically lets you store rewriteable amiibo files on them. They’re like Powersaves for Amiibo, but there’s no need to plug it into a computer and run a program. Love ’em. Mine just broke last month, actually.
Anyway, Flashiibo has competition now, and I can’t really imagine why. These are all carbon copies of the Flashiibo, for the same price, but they’re pretty obviously the same product in a different color, and for the same price. (By the way, Flashiibo was about twenty bucks until last year. What happened? Now they’re $35 at the cheapest… I suppose they’re tariffed.)
Is this the way amiibo tech is going? We’ve been pretty lucky as a micro-industry thus far where all amiibo tech was made by hobbyists who turned a small profit and sold quality goods. Powersaves, Flask, Tagmo, everything was a passion project. Now we’re mainstream enough that Chinese copycats of the original Chinese manufacturer are hitting Amazon.
Hopefully this is temporary.
Amiibo Doctor 