Nintendo characters come to life in new ways as amiibo interactive figures that have the ability to communicate with multiple specially designed games by just touching them to the Wii U GamePad controller. Nintendo first series of amiibo characters will be compatible with Super Smash Bros. for Wii U with further games to be announced. FEATURES: Amiibo can interact with compatible games when players touch them to the Wii U GamePad controller, reading character data into games and saving data to the figure. Different compatible games will use amiibo in different ways. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U will be the first game to use amiibo. Games like Mario Kart 8, Mario Party 10, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker and Yoshi’s Woolly World are also planned to support amiibo. In Super Smash Bros., players can battle alongside or against their amiibo characters, leveling them up in the process. They can then bring them to a friend who has a Wii U and the game to show off how they’ve trained and customized their characters. A new NFC reader/writer, which is being designed for Nintendo 3DS, is scheduled to launch in 2015.