© Nintendo LifeThe arrival of Crossing the Animals: New Horizons it has created a prediction of the need for the necessary Animal Crossing Cards required to invite some residents to your island, to the extent that some of them now exchange hands for more value than the actual game. If you consider that these cards should offer low cost of access to the contents of the amiibo key, it's a rare opportunity.
While the relaunch of Animal Crossing cards seems to be happening in Japan later this year – according to online retailer Play-Asia, at least – the idea of paying hundreds of dollars to get an Animal Crossing villager for you indeed desire is the only thing that the most dedicated fans turn to. For me, I'm excited about a small plastic disc that I've been lucky enough to pick on Halcyon's 3DS days.
Back in 2015, we took part in a civil lawsuit (now known as this) N2 Elite), a small device that could be downloaded NFC information from amiibo statistics. The unit building is simple; using any computer (with an NFC serial assistant) or NFC-supported Android phone, you can copy NFC information from either amiibo. The small button on the side of the device lets you rotate through all the amiibo data you currently hold. When the data is in the N2 Elite, it works like a real amiibo – and you can download amiibo data online from all the drawings and cards released so far.
I won't go through this issue again – as I said, we did that back in 2015 – but given the current madness surrounding my own Animal Crossing Cards, I thank my lucky stars that I still have my old N2 Elite in the back of my desk drawer. Before the release of New Horizons, it hadn't been used in real years, but now enjoys a new lease of life – and saving me a little money on the process.
This is definitely better than slavery, you might say. However, at the end of the day, Nintendo doesn't benefit if someone pays the price for eBay on the second Animal Crossing amiibo card, so there's no reason to feel guilty of any kind in this particular situation – especially as I know in my heart that if cards it was available at their original price in my local sports store, I was dipping it as much as I would love to have something tangible – and that was a major contender in 2015. The amiibo stylistic appeal is well positioned as their favorite collectable items to display on your shelf; NFC performance, designed for most people, is a bonus. Besides, other than that, the important point here is that I can't buy them at their original price even if I want to.
© Nintendo LifeThe amiibo collection has been an important place to stick since the range began, with many prices now being sold at many times over their actual retail price. The existence of such a market would have begun to create a demand for devices such as the N2 Elite, and I personally thank that I was able to choose to include any citizen on my Animal Crossing Island without paying for a nose. While the game doesn't have any DLC content yet, the fact that Animal Crossing cards exist is almost like having it physically DLC, and what's worse, players can't easily catch them without paying the wrong amount.
Should Nintendo get more cards in production before New Horizons hits store shelves? Certainly; the need is here obviously. However, recent coronavirus outbreaks may have put the brakes on that particular system. Should citizens of amiibo be provided as a DLC for the game? Maybe you can throw 99 cents to get your favorite character to visit your island? It sounds abusive, but isn't that what Nintendo was asking when it decided that amiibo cards needed to name these characters?
Let us know if you have the N2 Elite using it in the same way – and what you think of the current state of the Animal Crossing amiibo card – by voting in the polling areas below and leaving a comment.
